Dr Gopala Sasie Rekha

Biography

Dr Gopala Sasie Rekha is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Policing, Criminology and Forensics. She teaches a wide variety of subjects including a module on Modern Slavery, which she developed.

She obtained her PhD in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology from the University of Southampton in 2022. Title: “Life After Trafficking: The Social Reintegration Process of Victims of Sex Trafficking and Their Families in Indonesia" and is currently working on her monograph and a book chapter.

She is a member of the Editorial Team for Mahadi: Indonesia Journal of Law, Faculty of Law, Universitas Sumatra Utara and a Peer Reviewer at the Journal of Southeast Asian Human Rights.

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Areas of expertise

Organised crime, gender related issues, human right issues, human trafficking

Publications

Journal articles

From horticulture to psychonautics: an analysis of online communities discussing and trading plants with psychotropic properties | SpringerLink

To App or Not to App? Understanding Public Resistance to COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing and its Criminological Relevance | Law, Technology and Humans (qut.edu.au)

(PDF) Female Imprisonment: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement C.Frois. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2017) 231pp. £109.99hb ISBN 978‐3‐319‐63684‐9 (researchgate.net)

Book review

Frois, D. (2017), ‘Female Imprisonment: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement’, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Conference presentations

Oct 2022: 24 Hours Conferences on Global Organised Crime 2020, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (Abstract accepted for presentation in the Regular Panel Session

2021: BSC Annual Conference (online) 2021 at the Open University (Presented).

2020: 24 Hours Conferences on Global Organised Crime 2020, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (Presented).

2020: 2 Days of Online Master Classes for researchers Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery Online, Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking, University of Cambridge (Presented).

2019: Post Graduate Research Conference 2019, University of Southampton (Presented).

2019: Law Post Graduate Research Conference 2019, Durham University, UK (Presented).

2018: The Anti-Slavery Event 2018 at St. Mary’s University, London, UK.

2018: Tackling Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Symposium 2018, London, UK.

Public Engagement

Invited talks

2018: Presentation on modern day slavery to Fulham Job Centre Plus in London, UK

2018: Presentation at Bandungwangi on reintegration process of sex trafficked victims in Jakarta, Indonesia

2021: Presentation on Human Trafficking at the Human Trafficking, Migration and Organised Crime Department on Monday 22nd March 2021.

Social media campaign

2020: Presentation with Public Policy University of Southampton on World Day against Trafficking in Persons 30 July https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldDayAgainstTraffickingInPersons