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Meet our Members

Discover more about our researchers and their interests.

The Unit is supported by an International Reference Group (IRG) and a National Consultative Group (NCG).

All members are:

  • Invited to an annual ICRU general meeting in which we review the previous academic year and discuss ideas for the following academic year;
  • Invited to participate in our seminar series, which features regular talk by scholars. These seminars are typically open to the public and also include undergraduate and postgraduate students. They can take place online, face-to-face in Liverpool, or in a hybrid format.
  • Sent regular updates informing them about our events in order to disseminate these to their professional networks. 

Co-Directors

Dr Laura Naegler (Research interests: cultural and political resistance, new forms of activism and protest, and crime control, social control and political activism in Singapore).

Dr Joseph Greener (Research interests: critical perspectives of social policy and criminology; abuse and neglect in the elderly care labour process; service user-led methodologies; the impact of austerity on mental distress).

Academic Staff

Dr Gemma Ahearne (Research interests: the sex industry, women in prison, vulnerability/exploitation-nexus, women's centres).

Professor Barry Godfrey (Research interests: comparative criminology, desistence, international crime history, sentencing, longitudinal patterns of offending).

Professor Barry Goldson (Research interests: comparative research, knowledge-policy relations, children’s/young people’s human rights and justice, juvenile/youth justice, penality, prisons).

Dr David Baker (Research interests: policing and accountability, specifically in relation to people who die after contact with the police). 

Dr Laura Gutiérrez (Research interests: green criminology, wildlife criminology, socio-environmental conflict, crimes of the powerful, Global North-Global South dynamics).

Dr Lynn Hancock (Research interests: communities and crime, crime prevention, community safety, public participation and criminal justice, urban regeneration and crime control).

Dr Alice Ievins (Research interests: prisons (in particular the imprisonment of men convicted of sex offences), punishment, penal theory, shame and guilt, comparative punishment). 

Dr Carly Lightowlers (Research interests: administrative and secondary data analysis, alcohol, crime and violence, criminal justice processes and outcomes, intoxication in sentencing, quantitative methods, the 2011 English 'riots').

Dr Ross McGarry (Research interests: criminological realism, critical criminology, criminology of war, military criminology/sociology, victimology).

Dr Anne-Marie Martindale (Research interests: negotiation of embodied identities and their wider intersections with health, appearance, religion across the life course).

Professor Fiona Measham (Research interests: Drug trends, drug policy, drug checking, night time economy, festivals, gender, sexuality). 

Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas (Research interests: EU criminal law; transnational criminal law; law of economic crime; terrorism and human rights; criminalsiation of migration; surveillance; environmental crime).

Dr Leon Moosavi (Research interests: the internationalisation of Higher Education, academic imperialism, orientalism in academia and decolonising knowledge).

Professor Gabe Mythen (Research interests: risk, regulation, power, security policy, terror, and counter-terrorism).

Dr Katy Roscoe (Research interests: global mobilities, unfree labour and racial inequalities, mid-nineteenth century crime and punishment in Britain and its former empire (Australia, Bermuda and Gibraltar)).

Dr Liz Turner (Research interests: criminal justice policy, democracy and criminal justice, police and policing, public confidence in criminal justice, public criminology).

Professor Sandra Walklate (Research interests: criminology of war, gender and crime, risk, resilience, terror and counter-terrorism, victimology).

Dr Gregory Davies (Research interests: devolution, particularly in Wales; the political functions of the judiciary within the UK's territorial constitution; prisoners' rights; Marxist and other materialist approaches to legal and constitutional analysis).

Dr Shuai 'Eddie' Wei (Research interests: gender, law, and crime, with an international and comparative perspective). 

 

Postgraduate Researchers (PGT and PGT Representatives)

Our Postgraduate Teaching (PGT) and Postgraduate Research (PGR) Representatives communicate and liaise with postgraduate students and ICRU members, supporting an inclusive and horizontally focussed research community.

ICRU - PGR Representative

Jacob Astley, BA, MSc, PGCE 14+.
Jacob is ESRC NWSSDTP Postgraduate Research student. His research interests include: extremism and hate, incels, intersectionality, manosphere, misogynistic-driven violence, security policy, terror and counter-terrorism.

Email: j.w.astley@liverpool.ac.uk

ICRU - PGT Representative

Megan Davidson, FRSA, RSE
Megan (she/her) is a Postgraduate Taught student in Criminological Research (MRes). Her research interests include: prison architecture, rehabilitative correctional opportunities, punishment, and indigenous criminology.

Email: M.Davidson3@liverpool.ac.uk

 

Affiliated Members (University of Liverpool)

Professor Jon Cole, Institute of Population Health (Research keywords: aggression, drug use, prevention, violence).

Dr Sean Columb, Liverpool Law School (Research keywords: anti-trafficking, international criminal law, organised crime).

Dr Andrew Davies, Department of History (Research keywords: gangs, history of crime, history of policing, history of punishment, violence).

Dr Mike Rowe, Management School (Research keywords: ethnography, governance, police discretion, policing, public accountability).

Dr Jennifer Turner, Department of Geography and Planning (Research keywords: carceral geography, carceral methodologies, disciplined mobilities, prison architecture and the lived experience of carceral space, the prison boundary).

Dr Jaqueline Wheatcroft, Institute of Psychology, Health, and Society (Research keywords: cross examination, forensic science, policing, witnesses (including expert witnesses)).

 

International Reference Group (IRG)

 

National Consultative Group (NCG)

 

 

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