Professors Noha Mellor and Jon Silverman offer a range of consultancy/training and analysis on their specialist subject areas – Arab media, criminal justice and international law and tribunals.

Professor Jon Silverman has made documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and provides analysis for a range of media outlets, notably BBC Radio, The Conversation and Democracy in Africa. He wrote regularly for the public policy journal, Policy Review (www.policyreview.co.uk), and for the Home Office staff magazine, Inside Track, on the work of the Home Office.

Consultancy

Professor Jon Silverman was consultant/mentor for the BBC World Service Trust,(now BBC Media Action) providing daily coverage of the Charles Taylor trial in The Hague to audiences in Sierra Leone and Liberia. He has provided training for journalists in Macedonia, Sierra Leone and, on behalf of the International Criminal Court, the Central African Republic. He was consulted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (2009) about its media strategy.

He is media consultant (and trustee) of Fair Trials International, a registered charity which campaigns and provides legal advice to those arrested outside their own legal jurisdiction. He has provided media advice and training to Islamic Relief  and the former College of Social Work.

Professor Noha Mellor has provided consultancy to various organisations including the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Danish Institute for International Studies, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT), BBC World Service Trust & Carter Ruck Media Lawyers.

She has contributed her expertise in Arab journalism to trans-national initiatives to promote peace such as the UN Alliance of Civilizations, and was also the EUROMED and Media representative at the EU Ministerial Meeting on Culture, 30 May 2008, Athens.