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Di Levine – Assistant Professor/Lecturer and Impact Lead, School of Criminology & Research Associate (visiting researcher), Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg Yesterday – 19th November – was World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse. I would normally have said that ‘this couldn’t have come at a more prescient time’ or […]
School Administrators: Getting to Know Who We Are
Laura Nevay School Administrator, School of Criminology and Sociology Carla Starmer School Administrator, School of Media and Communication When was the last time you thought about what being a School Administrator involves? Yes, you probably see us on a regular basis and yes, you probably stop and have chat with us – some will just […]
The Invisible Religious Hate Crime: Shiaphobia Amid Ashura Commemorations
Michael Dhanoya – PGR Researcher Earlier this year around the 27-28 July crowds of Muslim men and women took to the streets worldwide. Clad in black, they flagellated their chests, faces and backs with their hands, whips and swords. For some, such scenes may conjure up notions of Islamic fanaticism. However, rather than demonstrations of […]
How do we put the ‘Public Health’ into Violence Reduction?
Matt Hopkins – Associate Professor and Violence Hub Lead, Centre for Hate Studies Public health approaches to violence reduction are very much in vogue. Although the notion of taking a public health approach to tackling violence is nothing new, it has only fairy recently been spoken about within British crime prevention circles. Credit for this […]
Research as Activism: Researching LGB+ Online Hate
Rachel Keighley – Research Associate and Vice-Chair of the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network To understand why activist research is so important, I thought I should share what motivated me to become an activist researcher in the first place. In 2016 I was 22 years old and studying for my Criminology Masters at […]
Nothing About Me, Without Me
Emma Sleath – Head of School Millie Gant, Head of Delivery – Violence Reduction Network @milliegant1 @VR_Network The involvement of patients in the way in which research, practice, and policy is developed has significantly increased in recent times, particularly within health contexts. In other fields, growth in the use of patient involvement, or more commonly […]
Reflections on the AdvanceHE Teaching and Learning Conference
By (l-r in image) Jess Ritchie, Laura Nevay, Jo Murphy & Ben Ellis On 5th July, we attended the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference at Keele University, entitled “Teaching in the spotlight: shaping the future of HE”. There were 132 presentations on the day, focusing on a range of topics from inclusivity to alternative […]
Using Creative Activities in Criminology Workshops: A Reflection
By Angus Li PhD Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant This is it – my first year of teaching at the University of Leicester is over. To be honest, it’s been an invaluable experience and it makes me start to believe that I indeed enjoy teaching. Teaching Criminology can be challenging, especially when it comes to […]
What can schools REALLY do about Andrew Tate?
By Di Levine Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Criminology and Visiting Research Associate (Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg) And Matteo Bergamini Founder and CEO of Shout Out UK A teacher friend recently mentioned that demands to “make me sandwich, Miss” had become an almost daily occurrence at their school. … They were slightly […]
LGBT Rights Activism at the United Nations and the Geopolitics of Sexuality
By Calogero Giametta Lecturer in Criminology LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) rights are divisive and prone to instrumentalisation, nationally and globally. In the past thirty years LGBT rights have attracted the attention of a diverse set of actors: from civil society to states, from liberal to conservative parties, and more recently from global capital […]