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Upcoming event:

Female Veterans Workshop 21st May, Bristol

Following on from the success of our previous workshops held in Caerphilly, Wrexham and Swansea... 1/3

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We will be focusing on these 6 key themes:
🔸 Community and relationships
🔸 Employment, education and skills
🔸 Finance and debt
🔸 Health and wellbeing
🔸 Making a home in civilian society
🔸 Veterans and the law 3/3

...we are really keen to get as many female veterans together to chat about any challenges faced during Service, transition and integration back into civilian life. We are also equally as keen to hear about any positive experiences during these times. 2/3

Upcoming event:

Female Veterans Workshop 21st May, Bristol

Following on from the success of our previous workshops held in Caerphilly, Wrexham and Swansea... 1/3

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Women in the Karenni Armed Resistance Movement Maw Day Myar is the Secretary General of the Karenni State Consultative Council (KSCC). She will discuss women and gender in Karenni’s armed resistance movement. The event will be held in English.

Upcoming event:

Women in the Karenni Armed Resistance Movement - a talk by Maw Day Myar. Happening on 19th May, 13:00-15:00.

Find out more here: www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...

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We are delighted to share details on our next event: 'Meet the Editors'! A range of editors from leading defence journals will be there to answer your burning questions on submitting a journal article. Register using the QR code below.
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Our April newsletter - 'Veterans and Families' - has been published today! tinyurl.com/DRNApr25 #MotMC

Highland’s Children & Young People are AMAZING! Pupils from Raigmore Primary School in Inverness have co-created, with MLG (Education), a valuable and helpful online book and poster to help explain to us all what the Armed Forces Covenant-Educat…

This! Click the link. Very proud of our children and young people from Raigmore Primary @highland.gov.uk for Co-producing a resource to help us all understand the Armed Forces Covenant Education section: armedforcesfamilieshighland.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/h...

Our question for April is: What resource or piece of research, in the field of veterans and/or military families, do you wish more people knew about? Share your thoughts below!

Our theme for April's newsletter is 'Veterans and Families'. If you have anything you'd like to contribute on this theme, message us or email us: defenceresearchnetwork@gmail.com to discuss!

Our March newsletter - Women in Defence - has been published! Read it here: tinyurl.com/DRNMar2025

📣 Get those abstracts in! This is going to be a great opportunity to learn about successful publishing strategies in the field of War and Security Studies. We can't wait to hear from you and to see everyone at #BISA2025 in Belfast soon ⏰

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FREE EXHIBITION: The First World War in Italian Art In late 2023 I was taking an Istoria tour group through northern Italy on our First World War ‘After Caporetto’ tour when we made a stop at one of the best museums in the region in Vittorio Veneto.

Today’s FREE article is up and it’s an online exhibition of Italian #WW1 art

Paolo Del Giudice was chosen from almost 70 abstract artists to create a centenary exhibition in 2018.

I absolutely fell in love with his work, and he’s been kind enough to let me share some of it with you…

Harry Raffal and Samuel Oyewole sat at a table holding the book: Close Air Support

After five years of supporting each other from different continents, Samuel Oyewole and I finally got to meet in person today at the @rafmuseum.bsky.social

Close Air Support includes Sam's chapter on the Nigerian experience of CAS and it was lovely to be able to give him his copy in person

Screenshot showing part of the first page of the executive summary. The document can be accessed following this link: https://linktr.ee/lucygbrobinson

My doctoral thesis is now available to read! 📖You'll find the link via my Linktree (linktr.ee/lucygbrobinson) where you'll also find a 3-page executive summary.

Huge thanks to the Women's Inclusive Network DE&S for inviting me to speak as part of their #IWD programme! 👏

My talk 'Making Defence Work for Women' focused on topics like the importance of exploring policy versus practice & empathy as a moral & operational imperative 📣

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Our February newsletter has been published! The theme is: Alternative research dissemination, knowledge exchange & mobilisation! Have a read here: tinyurl.com/DRNFeb25

Don't be shy! Comment below your answer to our question of the month!

Our question of the month is: What forms of alternative research dissemination have you undertaken or participated in? 💭

Comment below or drop us an email: defenceresearchnetwork@gmail.com

Emerging Voices Network - BASIC BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network is a sustainable global network of high-potential, early career technical and policy experts who have begun to inherit the responsibility to manage nuclear threats.

Are you an ECR interested in nuclear weapons and nuclear policy issues? Then check out the EVN, part of
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Infographic showing the DRN's 12 themes for 2025.

Our themes for 2025 are live! If there's a theme you'd like to be involved in, please don't hesitate to drop us an email: defenceresearchnetwork@gmail.com

Our January newsletter has been published! The theme is: What's it like to research the military/defence? Have a read here: tinyurl.com/DRNJan25

I found some really useful reports and grey literate in the Forces in Mind Trust repository - worth a look.

Don't be shy! Share your top tip with us!