Research Community

The Impact Centre is a collaboration between the SCiP Alliance and the King's Centre for Military Health Research. The Impact Centre's role is to enhance the evidencing and evaluation practices of those working to support Service children. This involves providing evaluation training, consultancy, and evidence-into-practice briefings to better equip the Service children supporting sector. The Impact Centre collaborates with practitioners (education, third sector, social workers, etc), researchers, policy makers and funders to best understand what works for supporting Service children. 

Siobhan is a fully funded PhD student at The Veterans and Families Institute for Military Social Research, at Anglia Ruskin University. Her research aims to understand the experiences of Military mobility for young people from British Army families; by collecting primary data that speaks directly to young people. Siobhan also works for SSAFA Community Health, alongside British Armed Forces Overseas, as a (visiting) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Community Nursing Practitioner and a newly accredited ADOS-2 Assessor. She has volunteered in different activities to support the Armed Forces community. She has an undergraduate degree in Applied Social Science and Social Policy, a master’s degree in Psychology, and a master’s degree in Mental Health Nursing. Her research has always been focused on the Armed Forces community, with the aim to promote awareness of experiences, challenges and to recommend support.

The work of the Stress, Trauma, and Related Conditions (STARC) Research Centre focuses on the psychological well-being and mental health of those who have experienced stress, adversity, and trauma. The team focus on exploring and understanding predictors, correlates, and impacts of a range of psychological disorders including, but not limited to, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, and Dissociation and work with a range of different populations (healthcare workers, emergency services, Armed Forces, children and adolescents, as well as the general adult population). Additionally, recent efforts have focused on exploring the concept of post adversity psychological resilience.

Tamara Obradovic is a PhD student at the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), King’s College London. Tamara's PhD is a mixed methods study exploring the prevalence and impacts of Military Sexual Trauma in ex-Serving females in the UK, with a particular focus on the implications for mental health and help-seeking. Before joining the King’s Centre for Military Health Research, Tamara completed a masters in psychology at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include women's mental health, the mental health impacts of trauma, and occupational mental health.

Tara Zammit is a PhD Candidate in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. She has been awarded the SSHRC-CRSH Department of National Defence MINDS Initiative Doctoral Award to undertake her research. Tara’s research is situated within the fields of ontological security, feminist security studies, and war studies. She is developing a framework for better understanding the interconnectedness of these subjects through an ontological security lens and an analysis of diverse service experiences with the aim of influencing policy to better support women and LGBTQ+ individuals pursuing careers in defence and security.

The Centre for Military Research Education and Public Engagement is a research, education, public engagement, and practice unit in Scotland dedicated to the Armed Forces. It is based in Edinburgh Napier, a recognised Gold Covenant University, and works with key military stakeholders across Scotland, the UK and internationally through various networks related to armed forces transition, mental health, and wellbeing. At the heart of the centre is a multidisciplinary team of academics, practitioners, veterans, and key military personnel from tri-services with a reputation and demonstrable track record for innovation and flexible approaches to project management, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies