ESR Sophie Roupetz traveled to Lebanon in 2016 for a secondment, in which she supported the research project “Making Sense of Child Marriage Among Syrian Refugees”, alongside CHIBOW partner Susan Bartels. As a result of this secondment Sophie collaborated on an academic paper published in BMJ, a leading medical journal, entitled "Making sense of child, early and forced marriage among Syrian refugee girls: a mixed methods study in Lebanon." The paper presents new findings on why Syrian girls in Lebanon chose early marriage, and how narrative interpretation differs between male and female respondents, thus influencing their identification with underlying factors that contribute to early marria
Amra Delic, the EU researcher from the University Medizin Greifswald and Marie Sklodowska Curie ITN “Children Born of War: Past, Present and Future”, in November-December 2017 spent her PhD research internship at Tel Aviv University. She was supervised by Professor Zahava Solomon, a worldwide well-known scholar in the field of war-induced trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and director of the Israeli Centre of Research Excellence (I-CORE) for Mass Trauma. During her stay in Israel, Amra also visited the Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem, where she was hosted by professors Danny Brom and Ruth Pat-Horenczyk with an expertise in the fields of educa
