Projects (68)

English Prisons at War: Imprisonment during national crisis Sep 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2023
This research will focus on a neglected period of penal history within existing research; the English prison system during the two World Wars 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. The aim is to explore in detail via a wide range of archival and documentary source... Read More about English Prisons at War: Imprisonment during national crisis.

Evaluation of the Deployment of Body-Worn Video in Humberside Police Dec 1, 2018 - Apr 30, 2020
The principal purposes of this project are to develop an innovative methodology to evaluate the deployment of Body Worn Video-camera programme. The introduction of this new technology is the result of a complex change process where the decisions are... Read More about Evaluation of the Deployment of Body-Worn Video in Humberside Police.

H2020 MSCA ITN (ETN) - 'GRACE' Sep 1, 2015 - Aug 31, 2019
The aim of the GRACE (Gender And Cultures of Equality) project is to systematically investigate the cultural production of gender (in)equalities within Europe. Emerging out of and extending the success of GEMMA, the Erasmus Mundus ‘Masters of Excelle... Read More about H2020 MSCA ITN (ETN) - 'GRACE'.

Using computer vision to recover Indigenous presence and knowledge via a genealogy of colonial maps of America Mar 1, 2022 - Oct 1, 2022
I propose an exploratory analysis on how we can use machines to extract and compare text from 50 pre-modern colonial maps, to create a genealogy that will help historians quantify and visualise how Indigenous knowledge played an essential role in Eur... Read More about Using computer vision to recover Indigenous presence and knowledge via a genealogy of colonial maps of America.

Giving voice' to victims: a strengths-based investigation into victim identites Mar 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2019
This study asks: what role does criminal victimisation play in shaping identity? To answer this question it will depart from the conventional victimological focus on the crime event and instead utilise the narrative methods of desistance research com... Read More about Giving voice' to victims: a strengths-based investigation into victim identites.

Mothers – the silent supporters Apr 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2018
Restorative justice enables a more flexible approach of meeting the different needs and coping strategies of victims and offenders (Gall, 2011). As Sullivan and Tift (2013: 214) maintain, one way in which restorative justice can be achieved is throug... Read More about Mothers – the silent supporters.

What is the current state of girls' rights in the UK? Jun 16, 2015 - Dec 31, 2017
We intend to produce a project that focuses on data about adolescent girls’ rights in the UK. We are seeking a research partner to collect, collate and analyse data. The first stage of this work will be to establish what data is available on girls in... Read More about What is the current state of girls' rights in the UK?.

EC - COST - 'INOGOV' Sep 1, 2016 - Sep 30, 2016
The workshop will contribute in particular to Objective 1. However, it will also make significant contributions to Objectives 2 and 3. The workshop will foster an urgently needed interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers from different disciplin... Read More about EC - COST - 'INOGOV'.

The Common Good: Ethics and Rights in Cyber Security (ERCS) Sep 1, 2014 - Oct 31, 2016
If the recent controversies of U.S governmental surveillance and implicated technology companies demonstrated anything, it is the need for proportionate, just and effective cyber security in digital governance that is committed to the common good._x0... Read More about The Common Good: Ethics and Rights in Cyber Security (ERCS).

HO/ADR UK Feasibility Study May 1, 2020 - Aug 31, 2020
ADR UK and the Home Office are looking to appoint an academic or a group of academics to conduct a feasibility study into using the new Ministry of Justice-Department for Education (MoJ-DfE) linked dataset for evaluation of early interventions for vi... Read More about HO/ADR UK Feasibility Study.

Daiwa Foundation Small Grant Jul 1, 2017 - Nov 17, 2017
This project promotes interactions between British and Japanese scholars who work on Thomas Hill Green’s British idealist philosophy, with the primary aim of deepening their understandings of Green’s importance in the history of modern Western philos... Read More about Daiwa Foundation Small Grant.

Instrumental Values: Professional ethics in collaborative cultural works Apr 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018

R.G.Collingwood: A Biography Oct 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2018
To complete an intellectual biography of the philosopher and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood

Heroin and Crack Action Evaluation Nov 1, 2020 - Dec 30, 2021
Complete an evaluation framework for Humberside Police in line with the Heroin and Crack Action Team.

'Invalids', Disability and the Modern Prison May 1, 2018 - Jan 31, 2021
The contemporary prison system has been forced to respond in a more systematic manner to the needs of disabled prisoners due the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the subsequent Equalities Act 2010, as a group with 'protected characteristics'. T... Read More about 'Invalids', Disability and the Modern Prison.

Police Initiated Diversion for Youth to Prevent Future Delinquent Behaviour: A Systematic Review Jul 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2018

Redrawing slavery: debt, law, and the market in the process of enslavement Jan 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2018
The rising profile of modern slavery has added to the long-standing debate about the nature and definition of enslavement. This project redraws our current understanding of slavery by suggesting that enslavement as it was codified historically in law... Read More about Redrawing slavery: debt, law, and the market in the process of enslavement.

The Criminal Exploitation of Victims of Modern Slavery: Investigating the Scottish Response Jan 1, 2025 - Jun 30, 2025
Workshop at University of Edinburgh to investigate Scotland's iteration of the Modern Slavery Act's s45 defence

Examining the Scope, possible Interweave and Encumbrance of including Social and Climate Justice aspects in Teaching the English National Curriculum Jan 1, 2025 - Sep 30, 2025
This project will involve student teachers reflecting on aspects of teaching the English National Curriculum, and the scope of interweaving or the possible encumbrance of supporting children's understanding about aspects of social and climate justice... Read More about Examining the Scope, possible Interweave and Encumbrance of including Social and Climate Justice aspects in Teaching the English National Curriculum.

Freedom of Speech and Liberal Democracy: History, Rights and Cultures Sep 1, 2025 - Aug 31, 2028