Dr Martin Glynn
Dr Martin Glynn is Winston Churchill Fellow, a criminologist, dramatist, screenwriter, children’s author, and data storyteller with over 40 years’ experience of working in criminal justice, public health, and educational settings.
Dr Glynn is currently a senior lecturer in criminology at Birmingham City University.
Areas of Expertise
- Criminology
- Black Studies
- Data Storytelling
- Creative Pedagogy
- Storytelling for Social Justice
Qualifications
- PhD - Birmingham City University (UK) Centre for Applied Criminology (2013)
- MA - Birmingham City University (UK) Centre for Applied Criminology (2005)
Memberships
- Full Member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain
- Full Member of Equity (Actors Union)
- Full Member of the Black Writers Guild
- Full Member of the Crime Writers Association (UK)
Teaching
- Criminology
- Black Studies
- Sociology
- Youth and Community
Research
- The Black Presence in Crime and Punishment
- Black Crime Fiction
- Creative Pedagogy
- Storytelling for Social Justice
Publications
Books:
- Glynn, M (2023) Creative Pedagogies: A Handbook for HE professionals, St Albans: Critical Publishing.
- Glynn, M (2022) Invisible Voices: The Black Presence in Crime and Punishment in the UK (1750-1900), London: Routledge.
- Glynn, M (2021) Beyond the Wall: Black Art and the Criminological Imagination, Bristol: Policy Press.
- Glynn, M (2019) Speaking Data and Telling Stories: Data Verbalization for researchers, London: Routledge.
- Glynn, M (2014) Black Men, Invisibility, and Desistance from crime: Towards a Critical Race Theory from Crime, London: Routledge.
Publications:
- Brown, G & Bos, E & Brady, G & Kneafsey, M & Glynn, M (2016) An Evaluation of the Master Gardener Programme at HMP Rye Hill: A Horticultural Intervention with Substance Misusing Offenders, Prison Service Journal, 225, (1), 45-52.
- Glynn, M (2016) Towards an Intersectional Model of Desistance for Black offenders, Safer Communities, 15 (1), 24-32.
- Eshareturi, C, & Serrant, L, & Galbraith, V & Glynn, M (2015) Silence of a scream: Application of the Silences Framework to provision of nurse-led interventions forEx-offenders, Journal of Research in Nursing, 0 (0), 1-15.
- Brookes, M & Glynn, M & Wilson, D (2012) Black Men, Therapeutic Communities and HMP Grendon, Journal of Therapeutic communities, 33 (1)13-26.
- Cross, V & Shah, P & Glynn, M & Chidrawer, S (2009) Can we improve the surgical journey for African Caribbean patients undergoing glaucoma filtration surgery? Clinical Ophthalmology, (3) 1-12.
Book Chapters:
- Glynn, M (2023) Reflections of an on-road criminologist, Critical Questions of Youth, Gender and Race, Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- Glynn, M (2020) A Who Seh: Reflections of a Lost and Found Dub Poet pp 59-83 in Narratives from Beyond the Reggae Bassline: The System is Sound, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Glynn, M (2019) Dunbar was Right pp. 535-547 in Critical Race Theory in the Academy, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
- Glynn, M (2018) A framework model of Black masculinities and desistance, in New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities, edited by Maycock, M & Hunt, K, London: Palgrave.
- Glynn, M (2018) Working with Black Offenders, in the Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative work in Criminal Justice, edited by Graham, H, McNeill, F, Raynor, P, Taxman, F, Trotter, C and Ugwudike, P, London: Routledge.
- Glynn, M (2016) Insider Outsider: Reflections from beyond the Ebony Tower, in Blackness in Britain, edited by Andrews, K & Palmer, 24-33. London: Routledge: 24-33.
- Glynn, M (2006) in The Improvisation game – Discovering the secrets of Spontaneous Performance edited by Johnston, C, London: NHB, 60-62.
- Glynn, M (1999) Working with Black Offenders, in Free with words – Writers in prisons, Hopwood, C, Manchester: Bar Non, 139-144.
- Glynn, M (1998) Silent Voices – Working with Black Inmates: A perspective, in Thompson, J, Prison Theatre – Perspectives and Practices, London: JKP, 171-182.
Media Work
- Featured in BBC 1’s crime documentary series ‘Crime, are we tough enough?’ (Feb 2020)
- Featured on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze (March 2019)
- Featured in the Guardian Newspaper (March 2019)
- Featured in the Sunday Times Alternative Rich List (May 2018)
- Speaker – TEDx Birmingham City University (Jan 2018)
- Appeared as an onscreen criminologist on ITV’s Tonight Show entitled ‘Kids without Dads’ broadcast (2013).
- Appeared as an onscreen criminologist in ‘Banged Up’ for Channel Five fronted by the former Home Secretary the Rt. Hon David Blunkett MP. (Broadcast July 2008).
Links and Social Media
- X - @MSoulFires
- Instagram - newmoonartz267