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Criminology Staff

BA Criminology Programme Team

Dr Carol Robinson                              Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Sociology                                       

  • Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Criminology Programme Leader, LLB Law and Criminology, Co-ordinator, MA in Criminology and Social Research 
  • Module Leader, Influencers and Ideas
  • Module Leader, Working in the Criminal Justice System

Dr Susan Watson                               Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Social Policy, School for Business and Society        

  • Associate Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Criminology 
  • Associate Programme Leader, LLB Law and Criminology
  • Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Criminal Justice and Social Policy
  • Module Leader, Criminal Justice in the Online Space
  • Module Leader, Victimology and Victimisation
  • Module Leader, Social Harm and Injustice

Lecturing staff

Dr Kate Brown
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminal Justice
kate.brown@york.ac.uk

  • Deputy Director: ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre
  • Module leader: Vulnerability, Deviance and Social Control
  • Module leader: Criminal Justice and Inequality 

Dr Rachael Burns
Associate Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Sociology
rachael.burns@york.ac.uk

  • Module Leader, Explaining Crime and Deviance
  • Lecturer on Explaining Crime and Deviance; Cultivating a Sociological Imagination; Understanding Contemporary Crime, Doing Research; Crime, Culture and Globalisation; Crime, Media and Culture; Morbidity, Culture and Courses

Dr Silvia Falcetta                                  Associate Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology silvia.facetta@york.ac.uk

  • Module Leader, Crime, Gender and Sexuality
  • Module Leader, Law and Social Control
  • Lecturer/Seminar leader Crime, Gender and Sexuality
  • Lecturer/Seminar leader Law and Social Control
  • Lecturer/Seminar leader Crime, Media and Culture
  • Seminar leader, Understanding Contemporary Crime
  • Seminar leader, Influencers and Ideas in Criminology

Professor Sharon Grace
Professor of Criminal Justice and Social Policy
sharon.grace@york.ac.uk

  • From September 2024 [currently on research leave]
  • Module leader, Drugs:Prevalence, policy and practice
  • Module leader: Victimology and Victimisation
  • Lecturer: Policing and the Police
  • Lecturer: Contemporary issues in Criminal Justice

Dr Mary Laing
Lecturer in Sociology
mary.laing@york.ac.uk 

  • Module Leader Understanding Contemporary Crime; Lecturer Explaining Crime and Deviance; Lecturer on Influencers and Ideas in Criminology; Lecturer on Crime, Gender and Sexuality. Exceptional Circumstances Chair, ELMPS member. 

Professor Charlie Lloyd
Professor of Criminal Justice and Social Policy                                           charlie.lloyd@york.ac.uk

  • Module leader: Policing and the Police
  • Lecturer: Drugs:Prevalence, policy and practice

Dr. Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt       Associate lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology                      cynthia.meersohn@york.ac.uk

  • Seminar leader, Understanding Contemporary Crime

Dr Lisa O'Malley
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Crime

  • Module leader: The Criminal Justice System
  • Module leader: Gender, Violence and Justice
  • Lecturer: Crime and the Lifecourse
  • Lecturer: Victimology and Victimisation
  • Lecturer: Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice

Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce
Professor in Department of Sociology
ruth.penfold-mounce@york.ac.uk  

  • Deputy Head of Sociology Department (Teaching and Learning)
  • Module Leader, Crime, Media and Criminal Justice
  • Lecturer: Understanding Contemporary Crime
  • Lecturer: Morbidity, Culture and Corpses

 

Dr Katy Sian                                            Senior Lecturer in Sociology

  • Lecturer: Crime Control and Globalization
  • Lecturer: Advances in Theoretical Criminology

Dr Luke Telford
Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Social Policy
luke.telford@york.ac.uk 

  • Programme Leader: Social and Political Sciences; Social & Public Policy; Social & Public Policy [Ethics & Justice].
  • Module leader: Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice.
  • Lecturer: Victimology & Victimisation.

 

Dr Rachel Vipond                                 Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Social Policy                                          

  • Chair of the Board of Studies, School for Business and Society
  • Module leader: Crime and the Life Course
  • Module leader: Prisons and Penal Policy
  • Module leader: Crimino-legal Student Think Tank (LLB Law and Criminology students only)
  • Module leader: Placement (SBS students only)
  • Lecturer: The Criminal Justice System