Ms Rose Parkes

Rose Parkes has been a full-time academic since October 2005 when she began teaching on social work degrees before joining the community and criminal justice division of De Montfort University. Prior to her employment in Higher Education, Rose was a Probation Officer supervising offenders both in custody and in the community, as well as providing tutor support to students training to become Probation Officers. 

She has gained knowledge and understanding of victim issues as a result of past work for Victim Support, and she is currently an Independent Lay Member of the Bedfordshire Police and Crime Panel. 

 All of these roles reflect her desire to maintain an effective working knowledge of the criminal justice system in order to ensure that her teaching and research is informed by a good understanding of current practice issues.

• Community & Criminal Justice

Click here to view a full listing of Rose Parkes' publications and outputs.

Parkes, R. and Kelly, S. (in progress) Mindfulness for Relaxation, in Kinman, G. and Grant, L. (eds.) Resilience for Social Work Practice, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Parkes, R. (2011) Hard Times: Is the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ Bad News for Enrichment Activities with Prisoners?, British Journal of Community Justice, 9(1/2), 125-139.

Parkes, R. and Bilby, C. (2010) ‘The Courage to Create: The Role of Artistic and Spiritual Activities in Prisons’. Howard Journal, 49(2), 97-110.

Parkes, R. (2010) ‘Breathing Space: Spirituality in Prison’. Prison Service Journal, 187, 53-56.

• Spirituality
• Prisons
• The Arts in Criminal Justice
• Probation
• Criminal justice
• Sentencing

Module Leader for the following:

Postgraduate

• ASCS3533 Diversity in Criminal Justice

Undergraduate

• ASCS3532 Understanding Crime & Criminal Behaviour 3
• CRIM3002 Theory, Policy and Practice (Module Tutor)
• CRIM2075 The Arts in Criminal Justice
• CRIM2007 Working with Offenders 1
• ASCS2532 Understanding Crime & Criminal Behaviour 2
• ASCS1532 Understanding Crime & Criminal Behaviour

•  PGCertHE, MA in Social Work, DipSW, DipBWY, LLB (Hons).

•  University of Bedfordshire, Outstanding Commitment Award 2007.

• Bedfordshire Police and Crime Panel from October 2012 to present - Independent Lay Member
• Arts Alliance Steering Committee from 2010 to present – Member

• Arts Alliance from 2010 to present – Member
• Salford University Centre for Prison Studies from 2009 to present - Member
• Register of Exercise Professionals UK from 2007 to present – Level 3 Member
• Prison Phoenix Trust from 2004 to present - Member
• British Wheel of Yoga from 2003 to present – Teacher

Cultural eXchanges 2013 – Annual Arts in Prisons event – co-hosted with Jacqui Norton, DMU / Park Street.

• Parkes, R. and Bilby, C. (2009) The Courage to Create:  The Role of Artistic and Spiritual Activities in Prisons.  Paper presented at the British Society of Criminology Conference, Cardiff 29 June-1 July 2009.
• Parkes (2009) Freedom Inside:  A Study of Yoga in Prisons.  Paper presented at the Wellbeing and Place Conference, University of Durham 7-9 April 2009.

• Member of Arts Alliance Steering Committee providing expertise on research and evidence of the arts in criminal justice.
• Member of DMU Equality & Diversity Training Group on Equality Act 2010.

Enrichment activities? Arts, creativity and spirituality in criminal justice systems, ESRC seminar series, 2012 to 2013, co-investigator, Birmingham City University / Bath Spa University, University of Birmingham and University of Northumbria, Grant of £17,372 Ref:  ES/J021784/1.

• External Examiner, MSc Criminology, University of Northampton, 2012 to present.
• Book Review Editor and Board Member for British Journal of Community Justice from 09.12.09 to present.
• Peer Reviewer for Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, British Journal of Social Work and British Journal of Community Justice.

• Yoga in Prisons Study, Drive Time Interview, BBC Radio Leicester, broadcast on Friday 10 December 2010.