Country researcher for Middle East and North African countries • Country reports • Document authentication • Disputed nationality • Dialect analysis • Forensic document authentication services (handwriting, tampering, alterations and translation) • Civil society in the Gulf • Islamist movements • Militia groups and radicalisation • Conflict and peacebuilding • Religious and ethnic minorities • Geopolitical trends and regional security • Diaspora and refugees • Human rights issues and modes of governance in the Middle East • LGBTQ and...

Assessment of attachment & bonding in families • Assessment of parenting, including in the context of child care proceedings • Alcohol & drug abuse as pertaining to parenting ability • Domestic violence, physical, sexual & emotional abuse as pertaining to parenting ability • Adult cognitive & personality assessment, including own family history in relation to ability to parent • Cognitive assessment of adults to determine competence, identify learning difficulties & disabilities, & make recommendations • Educational...

I have expertise and first-hand experience of compiling expert witness reports and consultancy services, focusing on the people and countries of East and Horn of Africa (i.e. Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan) for legal firms as well as courts and other clients across the UK/West/Africa in the following areas/fields: • Families and minority refugee community members (e.g. domestic disputes and wider conflicts, exploitations and modern-day slavery, cultural intersections and problems of relationships with partners...

Cultural expertise on Afghanistan and Pakistan • Forensic verification of questioned documents from Afghanistan and Pakistan • Authentication of documents issued in Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu • Language analysis to determine origin and nationality • Forensic linguistic authentication and authorship analysis • Expertise of human rights, safety, internal relocation, protection matters and access to treatment