Femicide: A Glance through Qualitative Lenses

Shalva Weil is a Senior Researcher at the Research Institute for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at UNISA, University of South Africa. She specializes in migration, ethnicity, ritual, gender, and violence. Shalva Weil is the Chair of COST Action IS1206 “Femicide across Europe.” She has published articles on femicide in the ACUNS volumes Femicide 3, 4 +6, and an article on femicide among girls in India in Ex Aequo (2016). She is a co-editor of the Special Issue 2016 on “Femicide: A Social Challenge” in Current Sociology. She is a board member of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network No. 20 on Qualitative Methods; from 2005-2007, she served as its Chair. In 2017, she is a co-chair of a Research Stream on “Femicide in Europe” at the ESA meetings in Athens.

Christiana Kouta joined the Cyprus University of Technology in 2007. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nursing. She is the Head of the Master in Advance Nursing and Community Health and Care and she is teaching at graduate and undergraduate level Community Nursing, Health Promotion, Transcultural Nursing, Family Nursing. Dr Kouta has constantly been involved in research activities as principal investigator, member or leader of research teams, academic advisor of doctoral and master’s students. Her research interests combine community and transcultural health taking into consideration gender and sexuality. Currently, she is leading an EU funded project on knowledge platform for Female Genital Mutilation. She is also involved in other EU projects in regards to Cultural Competence. Dr Kouta is the scientific coordinator in the COST Action “Femicide across Europe” and the Secretary of the European Transcultural Nurses Association (ETNA) since 2013.