Institute for Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justice areas of expertise

Emotion and Criminal Justice Research Cluster

The cluster meets bi-monthly to discuss the topic of emotion within the field of criminal justice. Membership to the cluster is trans-disciplinary and includes academics from the fields of sociology, criminology, nursing, speech and language therapy, social work, social policy and midwifery.

The group offers academics an opportunity to consolidate their interests together and move towards success in publishing, research tenure and staff development. We also welcome academics and practitioners from outside the university.

Aims of the cluster:

Collectively explore the topic of emotion within the criminal justice field
Expand knowledge, research and teaching on this topic
Support and peer review publications, presentations and teaching materials across the cluster
Identify opportunities for collaborative multi-disciplinary partnerships
Network with other emotion scholars, researchers and practitioners from across and outside the university
Source external funding to support cluster activity such as conference attendance, group symposiums, internships and research
Identify internal funding opportunities to increase post-graduate scholarships and boost cluster activity
Promote research and innovation in line with DMU/ faculty research strategies

Activity and membership

The Cluster meets bi-monthly to discuss the topic of emotion within the field of criminal justice. Membership to the cluster is trans-disciplinary and includes academics from the fields of sociology, criminology, nursing, speech and language therapy, social work, social policy and midwifery.

Contact us

Please contact the convenor of the cluster if you are interested in joining or contributing.

Dr Victoria Knight
E: vknight@dmu.ac.uk

Sexual Violence/Domestic Violence (SV/DV) Research Network

The SV/DV Research Network at DMU started in 2012 as a small collaboration between the Community and Criminal Justice Division and the Faculty of Business and Law. Since then, the network has rapidly expanded to include a wide range of academic staff across the faculties of Arts, Design and Humanities, Computing, Engineering and Media, Health and Life Sciences and Business and Law, from a variety of subject disciplines, together with professionals in other non-academic organisational roles.

Staff across the network have established a number of strong partnerships with other academics, government bodies, policy makers, statutory, private and voluntary sector professionals and victim/survivor groups as a result of collaborative research and learning development work at local, regional, European and international levels.

A strength of the network is its cross-disciplinary nature, which provides new and innovative ways of creating dialogue, investigating and influencing policy and practice.

The network’s primary objectives are to facilitate and support staff, students, policy makers, external agencies and the public in addressing issues relating to SV/DV and it seeks to achieve this via four core areas of activity:

Research and policy impact
Knowledge transfer, including seminar and conference events
Interdisciplinary teaching and programme development
Dissemination and publication

Education Research Group

The Education Research Group (ERG) focuses upon research into policy, pedagogy and practice in the full range of educational contexts. Its key areas of focus include: higher education policy, pedagogy and practice, in particular related to creativity, entrepreneurship and student-as-producer; academic labour and the political economy of higher education; alternative and co-operative higher education; the impact of neoliberal education policy, in particular on primary and higher education; critical race theory and critical feminism in the educational experiences of students and parents; intersectional experiences of schooling; educational psychology and the concept of resilience in the student experience, and in educational transitions; music education and the professional development of music educators; Forest schools and environmental education; schooling and spatial theory; prison education. The ERG is developing impact case studies: in relation to translational research and the relationship between policy and practice in a range of educational contexts; healthcare education, in particular in relation to conceptions of hygiene in primary schools; music education and the professional development of music educators; and the pedagogic and practice-based implementation of prison education.

Policing Research Group

A cross-university multidisciplinary group working with local, national and international forces to consider the wide-ranging issues and challenges facing modern policing.

Together we have completed a range of research projects:

Reducing violence in the night-time economy
Police leadership and the strategic management of mega-events
Burglary reduction
Exploring stop and search
Complex systems and managing change
Serious offending by mobile European criminals
Crime prevention practices of the Serious Organised Economic Crime Unit
Community management of sex offenders
Multi-agency public protection panels
The challenges of modernisation and professionalisation and the Royal St Lucia Police Force
Policing as critical reflective practice
Policing and dyslexia
Problems of effective co-operation: London 2012 Olympics and lessons learnt