Criminology and Social Policy
Who teaches you will depend mainly on which modules you choose in each of your three years. Here are some details of the current team - they are responsible for most of the core (compulsory) modules that you will take during your degree, as well as teaching many of the optional modules. Members of this team are nationally and internationally renowned for their specialist knowledge and expertise, and have published numerous books and articles.
Reader in Social Policy and Criminology.
Jo joined the Department of Social Sciences in 1991 as a Research Associate and later became a Research Fellow. Her research and academic interests focus on vulnerable children, young people and risk, children’s rights and mental illness and the family. In 1993 she co-founded the Young Carers Research Group (YCRG) here at Loughborough and she is now the group’s director. Jo has conducted a number of important studies of the lives of young carers. Her doctorate was on young caring and parental illness and disability. Her most recent research and published work Children Caring for Parents with Mental Illness (The Policy Press) focuses on children who care for, and are co-resident with, parents with serious mental health problems. Jo is currently managing an ESRC funded study on the use of photographic participation and elicitation methods among children whose parents have severe and enduring mental illness. Her other research and academic interests include, the experiences of people with learning difficulties and Autistic Spectrum Disorders in high secure units, and children and young people’s transitions into adulthood.
Professor of Equal Opportunities in Social Policy
Barbara studied as a mature student at Nottingham University where she received her PhD. Before coming to Loughborough University she worked in research and taught in both further and higher education. She also worked for five years as a practitioner in equal opportunities in local government. Her main academic interest is equal opportunities and social policy, which she teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her publications include Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: Challenging Men (Palgrave) and Equal Opportunities and Social Policy: Issues of Gender, ‘Race’ and Disability (Longman). She has published extensively on these topics in both academic and professional journals, and in papers at national and international conferences. Recent interesting developments have been to work collaboratively with colleagues in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering on the topic of women in the construction industry, both nationally and internationally, including a British Council Award to work in India. She has recently returned from study trips to India, Norway, Portugal, The Netherlands, Singapore and Spain. Barbara is also a Member of the European Network on the Distribution of Paid and Unpaid Work between Women and Men.
Dr John Martyn Chamberlain - Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy
Martyn’s doctoral research was concerned with contemporary reforms in
professional governance and his academic research interests lie in risk,
governance and surveillance studies as well as environmental and green
criminology. He has a long-standing interest in the care and treatment of
mentally disordered offenders. His latest book, Doctoring Medical Governance:
Medical Self-Regulation in Transition, was shortlisted for the 2010 British
Sociological Association Book of the Year Award for making a significant and
original contribution to the sociological study of medicine.
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
Jack’s academic interests are in education policy and politics; race and ethnicity; and citizenship education with particular reference to the European Union. He has written widely on education policy and on the politics of education. He is executive editor of the journal International Studies in the Sociology of Education. His publications include Contemporary Theories in the Sociology of Education (Macmillan), Beyond Communitarianism: Citizenship, Politics and Education (Macmillan), Education Policy and Contemporary Politics (Palgrave), Sociology of Education Today (Palgrave) and Citizenship and Political Education Today (Palgrave). Jack has been Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the Australian National University, and he has taught in the sociology departments at Southern Illinois University, the University of Nottingham and the University of Liverpool.
Professor of Criminology
Graham Farrell, PhD Manchester University, is Professor of Criminology. He was previously an Associate Professor in the Division of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, prior to which he was Deputy Research Director at the Police Foundation in Washington D.C. where he completed research sponsored by the US Department of Justice. He was a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice and Research Director of the Center for Crime Prevention Studies in 1997-8. In the early to mid-1990s he worked at the United Nations office in Vienna including on reports presented to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on behalf of the Secretary General. Previously, at the Centre for Criminological Research at Oxford University he worked on a study of race relations in prisons. He was a member of the research committee of the World Society of Victimology, and has undertaken a range of studies and consultancy for the Home Office. Graham is Director of the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice and currently Programme Director for the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is an Associate of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science and he publishes primarily in the areas of crime prevention, repeat victimisation, and drug policy, as well as on other criminal justice issues.
Dr Louise Grove - Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy.
Louise’s interests include crime prevention, victimology and methods of
evaluation, penal reform and wildlife crime. She joined the Criminology and
Social Policy team after completing her PhD in the Department of Social
Sciences here at Loughborough University. Louise’s PhD thesis was titled
Synergies of Syntheses: A Comparison of Systematic Review and Scientific
Realist Evaluation Methods for Crime Prevention. Her research involved
examining repeat victimisation prevention programmes. She has links with
several criminal justice organisations, including Victim Support, Leicestershire
Police, and the Howard League for Penal Reform. Louise has several published
articles on repeat victimisation and crime prevention.
Professor Ruth Lister CBE. FBA. AcSS. - Emeritus Professor
Professor of Social Policy
Ruth has spent much of her working life practising social policy through her work with the Child Poverty Action Group where she worked for 16 years, the last 8 as Director. She has been Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough since January 1994. Before that she was Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Social Studies at Bradford for six years. Her research interests focus mainly on poverty, citizenship, gender, and welfare reform. She has published and spoken widely on these topics. Her latest books are Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives (Palgrave) and Poverty (Polity Press). She has maintained a public profile through, for instance, her membership of the Commission on Social Justice, the Northern Ireland Opsahl Commission, the Commission on Poverty, Participation and Power and the Fabian Commission on Life Chances and Child Poverty. She was awarded a CBE in 1999 and is a founding academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.
Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy
Mike specialises in the area of criminal justice, especially the police. Mike’s research on the police has focused on police leadership and training, and the handling of mentally ill people when they come into contact with the police. On several occasions he has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he has researched how the local police respond to mental health emergencies. He has published widely on operational policing issues and other criminal justice matters. He also teaches modules covering the courts, prisons, and civil liberties. His most recent book, Crime and Social Policy, is concerned with the operation of the police and criminal justice agencies.
Professor of Child and Family Research
Harriet Ward is a qualified social worker. She came to Loughborough from the University of Leicester where she was a senior lecturer in social work. Harriet is now Professor of Child and Family Research at Loughborough and Director of the Centre for Child and Family Research (CCFR). The principal function of the research centre is to carry out policy relevant research on services for vulnerable children and adults, in particular children looked after away from home. Harriet has close links with the University of Ottawa, Universite Laval, Quebec and the University of Quebec at Montreal where she holds an honorary position. She also works collaboratively with other researchers from the Universities of Leicester, Bristol, York, Open University, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Cardiff, Glasgow and Royal Holloway, London. Harriet has been commissioned by Jessica Kingsley publishers to edit a series of five books – the Child Welfare series.