Regional Groups
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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: 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 Martina Feilzer, Bangor University, atm.feilzer@bangor.ac.uk and Dr Sophie Pike, University of South Wales, sophie.pike@southwales.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 a programme of seminars showcasing the most relevant and exciting research in criminology and criminal justice.
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. More recently, Professor Steve Tombs discussed the aftermath and consequences of the Grenfell Tower tragedy at the University of South Wales and, at Bangor, Nicola Harding from Leeds Trinity University presented ‘You know what I mean…’ an auto-ethnographic account of co-produced research with criminalised women.
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, the University of South Wales, 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, Northumbria University: Alex.Hall@northumbria.ac.uk
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 s.young@leeds.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
Contact either of the co-convenors: Professor Andrew Millie andrew.millie@edgehill.ac.uk or Professor Barry Goldson b.goldson@liverpool.ac.uk
Also, see their recent blog posting
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).
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
De Montfort University
Derby
Keele University
University of Leicester
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 Fleetwood (J.Fleetwood@gold.ac.uk) and Johnny Ilan (jonathan.ilan@city.ac.uk)
Also, see their blog posting ‘Criminological Postcards from London’.
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)
Bournemouth University
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 the West of England
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
Events are typically scheduled from September to the beginning of July each year. Watch out for new events being announced below.
Wales Branch
Wednesday December 5, 2018 17:00-18:30
Cardiff University, Room: Glamorgan Building, Room 0/86
Federico Varese (Professor of Criminology, Oxford University)
Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology at Oxford and a world expert on mafias and their movement. He has recently published Mafia Life, a more popular audience book on the dynamic of mafias.
Professor Mike Levi will be chairing this session.
Future events to be announced
Yorkshire and Humberside Branch
The next BSC Yorkshire & Humberside regional event will be at the University of Sheffield on January 30, 2019, where the opening paper will be given by Dr Layla Skinns, Reader in Criminology, University of Sheffield. Please contact the regional convenors for more details.
Future events to be announced.
Midlands branch
8th January 2019-1-3pm
The emotional dynamics of peer work in prison and probation
Sarah Nixon, University of Gloucester
Abstract to follow.
Venue: DMU Vijay Patel 2.11 (Pod)
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5th March 2019 1-3pm
“It feels bubbly”: Listening to the emotional climate in prison
Kate Herrity, University of Leicester,
Venue: DMU Vijay Patel 1.11 (Pod)
What does sound do for how we understand order and emotion in prison? This talk is based on an aural ethnography conducted in a local men’s prison between February and August 2017, with the aim of exploring the significance of sound in prison society. Attending to sound demonstrates the significance of paying closer attention to the sensory in prison ethnography, prompting consideration of how this impacts our understanding of the emotional geography of prison, and what this teaches us about the perilous business of ‘working at’ order, with which much of prison life is concerned. What are the implications this presents for how we gauge and manage wellbeing for prisoners and prison staff, as well as how we understand the prison?
Kate will hopefully have submitted her PhD by the time she gives this talk, which she worked towards through a studentship with the department of criminology at the University of Leicester. She has a number of particular interests within criminology in addition to prisons including; philosophy of social science, creative methods and the role of creativity in the research process.
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14th May 2019 1-3pm
Prisoners as Audiences of British Prison Films: An Emotive Dialogue
Dr Victoria Knight, Community and Criminal Justice Division, De Montfort University (with Dr Jamie Bennett University of Oxford)
This novel ethnography explored how 10 life sentence prisoners watch and respond to films that are intended to re-present the world in which they are deeply immersed. This session will focus on the emotive dialogues that followed the viewing of 5 contemporary British films. For the first time this study brings us closer to understanding prison film from an informed audience’s perspective- the prisoner. Their readings are complex and enmeshed in emotive responses to the ways in which film makers make the prison look and feel for popular consumption. Themes of violence, resistance, identity are entangled with their own readings of these films. As a result they bring renewed interpretations based on their lived experiences of deep incarceration. The context of consumption is powerful and does shape audience reception. The British films that will be discussed include Starred Up, Bronson, We Are Monster, Screwed and Everyday.
All events are free to attend. No booking required for any of these events.
Southern branch (in association with the Mannheim Centre London School of Economics)
All seminars begin at 18.30. Seminar locations and chairs to be confirmed by the Mannheim Centre
16 January
Reading Pictures: Art History and the Sociology of Punishment
Eamonn Carrabine (University of Essex)
20 February
Hate Crime and the Legal Process
Abenaa Owusu-Bempah (LSE) and Susann Wiedlitzka (University of Sussex)
20 March
The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space
Jennifer Turner (University of Liverpool)
29 May
Contemporary Crime Control in Historical Context: From the ‘New Police’ to the ‘Transformation of Policing’?
David Churchill (University of Leeds)
12 June
Challenges, Innovation and Reform in the Policing of Drugs
Panel with Matt Bacon (University of Sheffield), Leah Moyle (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Niamh Eastwood (Release)
All seminars begin at 18.30. Seminar locations to be confirmed.
South Coastal (in association with the Institute of Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton)
To be announced.
South West branch
Further future events to be announced.
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