Dr Martin Glynn
Dr Martin Glynn is an experienced and internationally renowned criminologist, educator, theatre director, and dramatist with over 35 years’ experience of working in criminal justice, public health, and educational settings.
As a writer Martin has written for BBC 1’s Casualty, had radio drama’s produced for BBC Radio 4, written and directed numerous theatre productions, published many poetry books, alongside developing a growing reputation as an author of children’s books. His new book ‘Speaking Data and Telling Stories: Data Verbalization for Researchers’ is published by Routledge (2019).
Areas of Expertise
- Performing research data
- Urban Ethnography
- Desistance
- Race and Crime
- Critical Race Theory
- Masculinities
- Rites of Passage
Qualifications
- PhD - Birmingham City University (UK) Centre for Applied Criminology (2013)
- MA - Birmingham City University (UK) Centre for Applied Criminology (2005)
- Certificate in Education - Nottingham Trent University (1984)
Memberships
- EQUITY
- Writers Guild of Great Britain
- Winston Churchill Fellow
Teaching
- Youth Crime and Justice
- Introduction to criminology
- Introduction to criminological theory
- Criminological research methods
- Gender and crime
- Crime, media & culture
- Black Studies Research Methods
Research
- To develop PLATFORM‘Data Verbalization Lab, an experimental space for adapting research data into performance.
- To examine the intersection of criminology and history as a way of contextualising the Black presence in crime and punishment in the UK (1750-1900).
Postgraduate Supervision
- PhD – Stephen Rawlins (2019) In what ways does the Christian faith impact on the desistance of black male ex-prisoners, Kings College London.
- PhD - Mohammed Getaweh (2018) Racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare: a study exploring the subjective experiences of Black adult males who were formerly looked after in Birmingham, Birmingham City University
Publications
Books: Toolkits
- 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. 4
- 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 for Ex-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? (2009) Clinical Ophthalmology, (3) 1-12.
Book Chapters:
- Glynn, M (2019) Dunbar was right, in Critical Race Theory in the Academy, Louisiana: Grambling University.
- 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.
Guest Reviewer:
- Journal of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society - Boys in the Hood and Vampires in the Woods: Racialized Fatalism in Film - (June 2017)
- Journal of Crime, Media, and Culture Journal – Critical Mass- Poems and Photographs on Mass incarceration (April 2012).
- The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice - Employment and desistance from crime: perceptions on work as a route away from offending (July 2012). 5
Evaluations:
- Artist residency at HMP Grendon in partnership with the IKON Gallery (Birmingham) (2015).
- Horticulture intervention with substance misusing Offender’s at HMP Rye Hill – Coventry University, (2015).
- C.O.P.E Black Mental Health Foundation - Offender Health Programme - Barrow Cadbury Trust, (2015).
- Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership Trust’s Anxiety Management Programme, (AMP) at HMP Stafford, University of Wolverhampton, (2014).
- Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust Evaluation Phase 2: The Nurses Voice, Non Traditional Roles, and Offender Health, University of Wolverhampton, (2013).
Blog posts:
- Black men’s desistance - This post focuses on issues arising when researching black men’s desistance
- Researching black men’s desistance: Researcher positionality -This post focuses on methodological issues concerning the researcher’s position in relation to researching black men’s desistance
Work With Industry
Dr Glynn has over 3 decades of experience of working in criminal justice, public health, and educational settings.
Links and Social Media
Twitter - @MSoulFires