Regional Groups
There are currently ten regional groups of the BSC – also see Regional Events and Archived Events
- Scotland
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- North East
- Yorkshire and Humberside
- North West
- Midlands
- South (inc. London)
- South Coastal
- South West
– also see Regional Events
Scotland
Contact: Dr Susan Batchelor (Chair), University of Glasgow, at Susan.Batchelor@glasgow.ac.uk; or Professor Michele Burman, University of Glasgow, at Michele.Burman@glasgow.ac.uk
The Scotland Branch membership consists of staff and postgraduate students from several Scottish Universities and those working in criminal justice policy and practice in national and local government, statutory agencies and the voluntary sector. The Branch has strong links with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) and the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), both of which are collaborative partnerships between several Scottish Universities.
University of Aberdeen
Abertay University
University of Dundee
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Napier University
University of Glasgow
Glasgow Caledonian University
Heriot-Watt University
University of the Highlands and Islands
Queen Margaret University
Robert Gordon University
University of St Andrews
University of Stirling
University of Strathclyde
University of West Scotland
– also see Regional Events
Wales
Contact: Professor Fiona Brookman, University of South Wales, at fiona.brookman@southwales.ac.uk and Professor Mike Levi, Cardiff University, at levi@cardiff.ac.uk
The Wales branch was launched at the end of 2007 (but was previously part of the Wales and West group). The main activity of the branch is monthly evening seminars followed by a social event. A range of speakers have presented at these seminars – ranging from local PhD students to established and eminent academics from in and outside Wales, such as Professor Rod Morgan, former Chairman of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, and Professor Pat Carlen, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology.
The audiences normally consist of academics, postgraduate students and some practitioners, such as local police officers and YOT staff. One of the aims in recent years has been to hold seminars at more Welsh universities and, pleasingly, Glamorgan, Cardiff, Swansea and Newport and Bangor have hosted seminars.
Aberystwyth University
Bangor University
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Cardiff University
Glyndŵr University
The Open University in Wales
Swansea University
University of South Wales
University of Wales
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
– also see Regional Events
Northern Ireland
Contact: Graham Ellison at g.ellison@qub.ac.uk
The Branch membership consists of members from both the Law School and the Department of Sociology at Queen’s, as well as criminology and criminal justice academics at the University of Ulster. Branch activities also regularly attract practitioners from a wide array of statutory agencies and community groups from across Northern Ireland. The Branch also has very strong links to the annual Irish Criminology Conference.
Open University in Ireland
Queen’s University Belfast
Ulster University
– also see Regional Events
North East
For more information on the North East branch contact Alexandra Hall, Teesside University Alexandra.Hall@tees.ac.uk
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Durham University
Newcastle University
Northumbria University
University of Sunderland
Teesside University
– also see Regional Events
Yorkshire and Humberside
Contact either of the co-convenors: Helen Johnston H.Johnston@hull.ac.uk or Suzanne Young Suzanne.Young@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
University of Bradford
University of Huddersfield
University of Hull
University of Leeds
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds Trinity University
University of Sheffield
Sheffield Hallam University
University of York
York St John University
– also see Regional Events
North West
The North West Branch of the BSC provides funding for a series of seminars across the region. In 2016 two successful events were held at Liverpool Hope University and Salford University (see archive).
If you are interested in hosting a NW Branch seminar please email Professor Andrew Millie Milliea@edgehill.ac.uk or Professor Barry Goldson at b.goldson@liv.ac.uk
Blackburn College
Lancaster University
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool John Moores University
Manchester Metropolitan University
The University of Manchester
The University of Central Lancashire
University of Liverpool
University of Salford
Edge Hill University
University of Chester
University of Bolton
University of Cumbria
– also see Regional Events
Midlands
Contact Estella Baker – ebaker@dmu.ac.uk
Aston University
University of Birmingham
Birmingham City University
Coventry University
Derby
Keele University
University of Lincoln
Loughborough University
University of Northampton
University of Nottingham
Nottingham Trent University
Staffordshire University
University of Warwick
University of Worcester
– also see Regional Events
Contact Jennifer Eastwood (jf209@le.ac.uk) and Johnny Ilan (jonathan.ilan@city.ac.uk)
Imperial College London
University College London
King’s College London
London School of Economics and Political Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Royal Holloway University of London
SOAS – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
City University London
Brunel University
Birkbeck College, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
Kingston University
London Metropolitan University
University of East London
University of Greenwich
University of Oxford
University of Reading
University of Surrey
Oxford Brookes University
University of Kent
Middlesex University
St Mary’s University, Twickenham
University of Cambridge
University of East Anglia
University of Suffolk
University of Essex
University of Hertfordshire
– also see Regional Events
South Coastal
Contact Jenny Fleming (j.fleming@soton.ac.uk)
University of Brighton
University of Sussex
University of Portsmouth
University of Southampton
Southampton Solent University
University of Winchester
– also see Regional Events
South West
Contact: Chair Dr Zoë James, Plymouth University, at Z.James@plymouth.ac.uk or Branch Secretary Dr Iain Channing iain.channing@plymouth.ac.uk
The South West branch was launched at the University of Plymouth Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies Symposium, ‘The Criminological Enterprise: Maximising Impact’, in 2009. The aim of the South West branch is to provide a forum for academics, students and practitioners to engage with criminological issues through a regular seminar series.
University of Bristol
University of Exeter
University of Bath
Bath Spa University
University of Plymouth
Regional Events
- Scotland branch
- Wales branch
- Northern Ireland branch
- North East branch
- Yorkshire and Humberside branch
- North West branch
- Midlands branch
- South branch (inc. London)
- South Coastal branch
- South West branch
British Society of Criminology Wales Branch: Research Seminar Programme
21/6/2017 (Wed) Cardiff University*, Glamorgan building, Room 0.86, 4.00 – 6.00pm
Chair: Stuart Field
Sam Hanks (SOCSI)
“Critically exploring the governance of massage parlours in Cardiff: promoting sex worker safety and wellbeing”.
Simon Avery (SOCSI)
“The governmentality of local organised crime assessments”
* These seminars also form part of the Cardiff Centre for Crime Law & Justice (CCLJ) Seminar Series.
**In collaboration with the College of Law and Criminology, Swansea University.
SOCSI rooms are in the Glamorgan Building, King Edward vii Avenue. CLAWS (Cardiff Law School) is on the junction of Park Place & Museum Place.
North East Branch
Midlands branch (in association with the Community and Criminal Justice Unit in the School of Applied Social Sciences and Leicester De Montfort Law School)
5th July 2017 – 1-3pm in Hawthorn Building 00.28, De Montfort University
Dr Irene Zempi
Since the Macpherson Report, there has been pressure on the police to increase diversity of police staff. Although British police have recently recruited greater numbers of minority police officers, they still remain vastly outnumbered by their white, heterosexual, male counterparts. Drawing on data from qualitative interviews with 20 participants based in a force in the UK, we examined police officers’ experiences of hostility, discrimination and exclusion internally in the police (Mawby & Zempi, 2016). Although there is a lot of research focusing on police officers’ experiences of racism in the police, other aspects of their identity remain under-researched. In this study, we employed intersectionality (the presence of multiple aspects of identity) in order to examine police officers’ experiences of bias, prejudice and ‘hate’ perpetrated by work colleagues and supervisors. The findings show widespread hostility, discrimination and exclusion towards minority police officers, especially those with multiple and intersecting personal identities.
Biography
Irene is the Director of the Nottingham Centre for the Study and Reduction of Bias, Prejudice & Hate Crime, and a Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Sociology, Nottingham Trent University. Irene has published widely on issues of gendered Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate crime. She is the co-author of the books: Islamophobia: Lived Experiences of Online and Offline Victimisation (Policy Press, 2016 with Dr Imran Awan) and Islamophobia, Victimisation and the Veil (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 with Dr Neil Chakraborti). Irene is also a board member of Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks), Nottinghamshire Hate Crime Steering Group and Leicestershire Police Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel. Irene has extensive experience as a practitioner working with victims of hate crime, domestic violence, volume crime and anti-social behaviour at Victim Support.
Contact vknight@dmu.ac.uk to book your free place
South branch (in association with the Mannheim Centre London School of Economics)
7 June Joanna Adler (Middlesex University) Impact of Pornography on the young
South Coastal (in association with the Institute of Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton)