Research Community

Linda Slapakova is a Senior Analyst at RAND where she leads work on the Defence workforce and Armed Forces Community. Her work cuts across personnel policy (particularly understanding future personnel policy challenges, incentivisation, career and talent management) and understanding the experiences and support needs of Veterans and military families. In the latter category, her recent projects have focused on understanding the financial stability of military families, the lived experience of military-to-civilian transition among Veteran cohorts with protected or minority characteristics, and implementation of the Armed Forces Covenant. She is a primarily qualitative researcher and her research interests mainly sit within the field of military sociology and applied policy research.

Lisa Campbell is a Counselling Psychologist in training, studying at Glasgow Caledonian University. Her research interests include trauma, PTSD, Complex PTSD, and psychological safety. Prior research based on Veteran populations includes a qualitative exploration of therapy experiences for PTSD and presenting symptoms and coping styles of Veterans who experienced trauma. Additionally, Lisa has conducted two systematic reviews synthesising qualitative literature on treatment seeking and treatment dropout for PTSD. She has presented her research at UK conferences. Her current project leads from her previous research which is a qualitative study to explore counselling psychologists' approach to treatment for CPTSD in UK Veterans.

Lisa is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist studying for her doctorate at the University of Southampton. Her thesis topic is about understanding LGBTQ+ veteran's experiences of mental health and help seeking.

Liza worked for NHS England as the lead on the Armed Forces Community social prescribing demonstrator. Being from both a military family and living in Plymouth she is looking forward to continuing her work being the Project Lead for the Female Veterans Transformation Programme.

Lucy Robinson conducted her PhD at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, funded by an ESRC Grand Union DTP studentship. Her DPhil research aimed to engage in a meaningful and creative way with Service children to explore how military life has shaped their experiences of education and sense of self. Before embarking on her DPhil at Oxford, Lucy completed her PGCE and MEd in Primary Education at the University of Cambridge. In addition to her DPhil work and role as Twitter Manager for the Defence Research Network, Lucy is a Trustee for the Armed Forces Education Trust (AFET).

Lucy is a part-time PhD student with Edinburgh Napier University whilst also serving as an officer in the Royal Air Force. She has a background in Human Resource Management having previously studied cross-cultural competence in British Service Personnel serving in multinational NATO units. Her current research focuses on the role of identity loss in career transition for veterans working with the prison services with the ultimate hope of improving the career transition process for all veterans.