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Research Seminars 2011-12

 

Special Events

International conference on The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization, 13-14 September 2012

'Careers in the Probation Service', 16 April 2012, 10.5am, WI-LT31. Talk Chris Tallant from the Humberside Area Probation Trust for all students. Register at www.hull.ac.uk/careers

'Researching Criminal and Prisons Lives', one day symposium, London Metropolitan Archives - Friday 10th February 2012

Annual Peter Forster Memorial Lecture 2012, Wed 8 Feb, 2012

Prof. Pnina Werbner, Keele University, "Vernacular Cosmopolitanism and Popular Protest in Botswana: Labour, Class and Politics in the Great Strike of 2011"

The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones, 17 Nov, 16.15, Dennison Centre, University of Hull 

Gender Jubilee at Hull

Celebrating 25 years of Gender studies at Hull

 

Research in progress

Filipino Diasporas

Alcohol-related problems in health and public disorder

Maritime piracy

Illness & embodiment

New waves in digital piracy

Major ESRC grant for new study into the Costs of Imprisonment

Completion of AHRC funded project on death & spirituality

Resisting surveillance: research findings

Research links with the University of Hong Kong

Special issue of Prison Service Journal on Young People in Custody

 

Outreach & Impact

Academician Honour for Professor Margaret Holloway

New fellow of National Institute for Health Research

 

Learning & Teaching

 

Three exciting new modules launched in Experimental Criminology, Leadership and Families

First Hong Kong criminology graduates