Since 2007 I’ve been researching the ethics of military recruitment and the impact of military employment. Some of this work is listed here…
Reports
2024, report: British army: Harm and abuse of child recruits, a timeline (with Jim Wyke) for the Child Rights International Network (CRIN)
2023, report: ‘The Pressure Cooker’: Child recruitment and suicide in the British armed forces for the Child Rights International Network (CRIN)
2019, report: Conscription by poverty? Deprivation and the British army (with Charlotte Cooper as lead author, for the Child Rights International Network, CRIN)
2018, report: Why 18 Matters? A rights-based analysis of child recruitment [a global overview of the military recruitment and training of children under age 18] (with Rachel Taylor, for Child Soldiers International)
2017, report: The first ambush? Effects of army training and employment (for Veterans for Peace UK)
2013, report: The last ambush? Aspects of mental health in the British armed forces (for ForcesWatch)
2008, report: Informed choice? Armed forces recruitment practice in the United Kingdom (independent report)
Papers and articles
- 2024, blog: We don’t always lose: Forty years’ work to end the use of child soldiers
- 2021, article: Has the time come for an all-adult army? (with Charlotte Cooper)
- 2019, research paper: Youngest British army recruits come disproportionately from England’s poorest constituencies (with Charlotte Cooper as lead author, for the Child Rights International Network)
- 2016, journal article: Is it counter-productive to enlist minors into the army? (with Rachel Taylor, for the RUSI Journal)
- 2015, submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: Out of step, out of time: Recruitment of minors by the British armed forces (for Child Soldiers International)
- 2013, research paper: Young age at army enlistment is associated with greater war zone risks (with Anna Goodman, for ForcesWatch and Child Soldiers International)
- 2010, research paper: Army recruiters visit London’s poorest schools most often (with Anna Goodman)
Website
2008 to present, website: BeforeYouSignUp.info [for young people and their parents considering army enlistment]
Other work
Some other work on these issues is listed on my work archive.
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