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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Amy Clarke Research Fellow, Centre for Hate Studies In the summer of 2022, the Centre for Hate Studies (CHS) created a brand-new podcast series, Hidden Hate, hosted by myself and Neil Chakraborti. Our aim was to create a podcast for anyone who wants to learn more about issues of hate, and who perhaps wants […]
By Laura Nevay School of Criminology Administrator & PA to Head of School One of the best aspects of working within Criminology is being surrounded by colleagues who are as passionate about accessibility as myself. Accessibility is not necessarily something people automatically think of when organising events and other workday tasks however for myself it […]
By Prof Lisa Smith Professor of Criminology & Head of School One thing I’ve learned from studying and working in criminology and forensic psychology is that most people I meet are inherently curious about topics relating to crime. When someone asks me what I do for a living, and I say “I’m a Professor of […]
