Christopher Mikton
Associate Professor of Criminology and Public Heal
HAS - Health and Social Sciences
University of West of England
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Mikton has a background in international violence prevention and criminology, with a specialization in forensic psychiatry. At UWE, Bristol, he is working across criminology and public health. He joined UWE in 2016 after working in the Prevention of Violence Unit at the World Health Organization (WHO) for 9 years. Before that he worked as a Clinical Scientist for the Department of Health/Ministry of Justice’s Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Programme and at the International Committee of the Red Cross. Dr Mikton holds PhD and MPhil degrees from the Institute of Criminology of the University of Cambridge and a BA from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Research Interest
Dr. Mikton has two broad areas of expertise: global violence prevention using a public health approach and personality disorders in forensic settings. Within global violence prevention, he has a particular focus on child maltreatment prevention, parenting programmes, longitudinal research, violence against people with disabilities, violence prevention in low- and middle-income countries, and data synthesis.
Publications
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Shenderovich Y, Eisner M, Mikton C, Gardner F, Liu J, Murray J. Methods for conducting systematic reviews of risk factors in low-and middle-income countries. BMC medical research methodology. 2016 Mar 15;16(1):32.
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Meinck F, Steinert JI, Sethi D, Gilbert R, Bellis MA, Mikton C, Alink L, Baban A. Measuring and monitoring national prevalence of child maltreatment: A practical handbook.
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Cluver LD, Lachman JM, Ward CL, Gardner F, Peterson T, Hutchings JM, Mikton C, Meinck F, Tsoanyane S, Doubt J, Boyes M. Development of a parenting support program to prevent abuse of adolescents in South Africa: Findings from a pilot pre-post study. Research on social work practice. 2016 Feb 5:1049731516628647.
