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Centre for Applied Criminology

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  • Imran Awan
  • Senior Lecturer in Criminology
  • Imran’s teaching career began at Birmingham City University before moving to Wolverhampton University. In 2009 he began work as a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Police Sciences at the University of Glamorgan. His teaching portfolio has been varied and is currently responsible for teaching Terrorism Theory, Managing the Police and Crime Analysis. He has previously been a module leader and helped develop and initiate modules in Violent Extremism and Terrorism, International Policing and...

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  • Dr Elle Boag
  • Lecturer in Social Psychology, Admissions Tutor for Psychology
  • Although beginning her academic career as a mature student, Elle’s history at the University of Southampton spans seven years. After completing her BSc in psychology in 2006 at the University of Southampton, she was awarded both the school of psychology prize and the BPS prize for best dissertation in the Wessex region. Subsequently, she continued onto an MSc in research methods in psychology which she completed in 2007. Elle was awarded school funding to complete a PhD examining the role...

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  • Louise Brand
  • Graduate School Administrator
  • I currently work as the Graduate School Administrator, a new role within the faculty aimed at providing comprehensive administrative support to the growing post graduate research (PGR) community. Since my appointment I have been working to establish a more visible identity for the Graduate School, to raise the profile and status of the PGR community in the faculty, and to provide an integrated administrative system through which to review and develop the student experience.

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  • Professor Michael Brookes
  • Visiting Professor
  • Professor Michael Brookes, Director of Therapeutic Communities at HMP Grendon, is a consultant chartered and registered forensic psychologist who has led the prison’s therapy team for the last nine years. His professional career has been primarily concerned with the application of psychological theories and principles to individual or groups of offenders, managers of secure establishments and those who work in custodial therapeutic environments. He is responsible for delivering...



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  • Martin Glynn
  • Criminologist, Doctoral Student, Lecturer
  • Martin is a criminologist with over 25 years' experience of working in prisons and schools. He has a Cert. Ed, a Master's degree in criminal justice policy and practice, and is currently doing his PhD at Birmingham City University where he is also a visiting lecturer. As a writer/director, Martin has gained a National and International reputation for his commissioned work in theatre, radio drama, children’s books, and performance poetry. In Jan 2010 Martin was awarded a Winston...

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  • Dr Lyndsey Harris
  • Admissions Tutor and 1st Year Tutor, Criminology
  • Dr. Lyndsey Harris is a member of the executive committee of the Political Studies Association of the UK; a Council member of the Conflict Research Society; and a member of the Irish Criminology Network. Her research interests include extremism in the UK: The English Defence League; terrorism and political violence; strategic theory and Northern Irish Politics. Before joining Birmingham City University, Lyndsey Harris taught politics at the University of Ulster and criminology at the ...

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  • Professor Craig Jackson
  • Head of Division, Psychology
  • As Professor of Occupational Health Psychology, Craig is interested in the effect of workplaces and working on people’s health and psychological wellbeing. Specific interests include unusual and rare occupations, work-related suicide, technology change, pesticide exposures, working hours, stress, research techniques, neurobehavioural methods and psychological assessments. He also increasingly researches the relationship between work and crime – particularly how offenders use...

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  • Dr Edward Johnson
  • Reader in Public Policy
  • Dr Johnson is a Reader in Public Policy. He has taught at Birmingham City University for more than 20 years in the fields of criminal justice, politics and, most recently, security studies. He has written extensively on British foreign policy and on the role of the United Nations in international affairs. His most recent publication was a jointly edited volume entitled Arms and Disarmament in Diplomacy (Valentine Mitchell). Dr Johnson is the Vice Chair of the British International History...