Wellbeing of DVI professionals assessed in debut academic paper

Description

The impact that identifying the victims of disasters and mass fatalities has on the wellbeing and mental health of the professionals who undertake the task is the subject of the first academic paper to be published by Huddersfield’s Dr Natalie Gorton.

Disaster victim identification: UK practitioners’ experiences and wellbeing has been published in Policing and Society, a leading academic policing journal.

Subject

“There are individuals who volunteer their time to go to the most horrendous places for Disaster Victim Identification – DVI – at mass fatality events,” says Dr Gorton. “Why do they do it? How did they cope? Does it do anything for them? My research also looks at the difficulties that arise from DVI.”