Ms Jane Drapkin

Jane is a lecturer in Criminology and is undertaking a PhD in the prevention of identity based violence. Jane has worked for international NGOs in conflict affected countries including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Eritrea, and has delivered genocide education on the Holocaust, the Bosnian genocide and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Jane is a Remembering Srebrenica Community Champion and a member of the Remembering Srebrenica East Midlands Board. She co-represents DMU as an institutional partner of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, and is a member of the Leicester Holocaust Memorial Day organising committee.

Institute for Research in Criminology and Community and Social Justice

Jane’s PhD explores communities that prevent identity-based violence in contexts of genocide, civil war and communal unrest. 

Jane has taught on a number of criminology modules. She is currently module leader for Victimology (third year undergraduate).

MA Politics of International Resources and Development, University of Leeds
BA Chemistry, Lincoln College, University of Oxford.

Victimology, Dissertation Supervision

• Institutional Partner member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.
• Member of East Midlands Board, Remembering Srebrenica.
• Member of the Leicester Holocaust Memorial Day organising committee.

Member of The International Association of Genocide Scholars

Panel member at Peace, Equality and Social Justice and SDG16 Conference, De Montfort University May 2022

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