Dr. Natalia Ollus
Director
“I strongly feel that we as researchers have a responsibility to listen to the experiences of victims of crime. Behind every number is a real person with real, and often traumatic experiences. We have a responsibility to speak of behalf of those who are less fortunate, or who do not have a voice."
Natalia holds a PhD in law and a Master’s in social anthropology. Throughout her career she has worked for the rights of victims of crime and vulnerable people, specifically those affected by gender-based violence and human trafficking. Her professional interest center around policy development and research in crime, criminology, crime prevention and victimology, with an emphasis on human trafficking, gender-based violence, corruption, economic crime, the rule of law, and female and juvenile prisoners. Natalia is passionate about making a difference through impactful, cutting-edge research and knowledge-creation. Her PhD thesis dealt with the exploitation of migrant workers and trafficking for the purpose of forced labour, defining the exploitation of migrant workers and trafficking for forced labour as a form of corporate crime. Natalia’s methodological expertise covers qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, in particular the development of comparative research setups and survey tools. Natalia and HEUNI go back 20 years; when still a student at the university, she was hired to work at HEUNI as a research assistant. In addition to HEUNI, Natalia has held positions at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in South Africa, at the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations in New York and as an anti-trafficking adviser at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. In addition to her professional work, Natalia has carried out volunteer work at various organisations working with women victims of violence. Natalia is currently a board member of the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology (www.nsfk.org) and a member of the national Human Rights Delegation 2020-2024. Natalia is keen to engage partners and stakeholders in sharing expertise and good practices, and to forge new partnerships with interested institutions and organisations around the globe.
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Published in 2010
Report series 66. Tuhansien iskujen maa - Miesten kokema väkivalta Suomessa
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Published in 2011
Report series 67. Ehdoilla millä hyvänsä - Työperäinen ihmiskauppa ja ulkomaalaisten työntekijöiden hyväksikäyttö Suomessa
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Published in 2011
Report series 68. Trafficking for Forced Labour and Labour Exploitation in Finland, Poland and Estonia
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Published in 2011
Report series 69. Organised crime, corruption and the movement of people across borders in the new enlarged EU: A case study of Estonia, Finland and the UK
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Published in 2011
Report series 70. Trust in justice: why it is important for criminal policy, and how it can be measured. Final report of the Euro-Justis project
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Published in 2013
Report series no. 71. Men's experiences of violence in Finland 2009
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Published in 2013
Report series no. 72. Blue Criminology: The power of United Nations ideas to counter crime globally - A monographic study
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Published in 2013
Report series no. 73. Meeting the challenge of crime in the global village: An assessment of the role and future of the United Nations Commission on the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
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Published in 2013
Report series no. 74. New types of crime: Proceedings of the International Seminar held in connection with HEUNI's thirtieth anniversary Helsinki 20 October 2011
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Published in 2013
Report series no. 75. Exploitation of migrant workers in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania: Uncovering the links between recruitment, irregular employment practices and labour trafficking
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Published in 2014
Reports series no. 76. "Tuulikaapissa on tulijoita": Työperäinen ihmiskauppa ja ulkomaalaisten työntekijöiden hyväksikäyttö ravintola- ja siivousaloilla
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Published in 2014
Report series no. 77. Recording Community Sanctions and Measures and Assessing Attrition - A Methodological Study on Comparative Data in Europe
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Published in 2014
Report series no. 78. Guidelines to prevent abusive recruitment, exploitative employment and trafficking of migrant workers in the Baltic Sea region
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Published in 2014
Report series no. 79. Ohjeistus ulkomaalaisten työntekijöiden rekrytointiin ja palkkaamiseen liittyvien väärinkäytösten ja työperäisen ihmiskaupan ennaltaehkäisemiseksi
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Published in 2014
Report series no. 80. European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics 2014
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Published in 2016
Report Series 81. Improper influence against prosecutors and judges in Finland and Sweden: Findings from two national surveys 2008
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Published in 2016
Report Series 82: Exploitative Sham Marriages: Exploring the Links between Human Trafficking and Sham Marriages in Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia
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Published in 2016
Report Series 83: Addressing Human Trafficking in the Baltic Sea: Nordic-Baltic Partnership with Passenger Ferry Companies to Counter Trafficking in Human Beings, Smuggling of Migrants and Exploitation of Migrant Workers in the Baltic Sea Region
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Published in 2016
Report Series 84: From Forced Flexibility to Forced Labour: The Exploitation of Migrant Workers in Finland
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Published in 2017
Report Series 85: Crime and Gender: A Study on how Men and Women are Represented in International Crime Statistics
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