Hate Crime Research Group

Date/Time

Speaker

Topic and Title

Microsoft Teams Link

Friday 11 October 2024

11 am - 12 pm

Mark Brookes MBE

Dr Irene Zempi

Professor Loretta Trickett

Martin Tangen

Hate Crime Awareness Week

Launch of Dimensions Disability Hate Crime training & NTU evaluation report.

Join here

This online event will launch the Dimensions Disability Hate Crime training package & NTU evaluation report.

Dimensions, a leading not-for-profit organisation supporting people with learning disabilities and autism, has partnered with NTU as part of its #ImWithSam campaign to tackle autism and learning disability hate crime.

Dimensions has designed a Disability Hate Crime training package that has been evaluated by NTU academics Associate Professor Irene Zempi and Professor Loretta Trickett with the support of Martin Tangen, course leader for BA (Hons) Professional Policing at NTU and NTU researcher Ragin Maria John.

Wed 23 October 2024

12 - 1 pm

Dr Angela Charles, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Northampton University

Black History Month

‘Black Women in Prison and The Pains of Impression Management’

Join here

Dr Angela Charles is a Senior Lecturer in the Criminology department at Northampton University. Angela completed her BA undergraduate degree in History and Criminology at the University of Essex in 2014, graduating with First Class Honours. This was followed by a MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Oxford University in 2015. Angela completed her PhD in 2024 titled Black Women In Prison: Exploring

The Intersection Of Race And Gender In Experiences Of Imprisonment. Angela has worked within the criminal justice sector in a Secure Training Centre, the National Probation Service, and Youth Justice. Angela’s research interests are within prisons and penology, and race and gender. Her most recent research explored and analysed the experiences of Black women in English prisons, paying particular attention to the intersections of race, class and gender. Black women are at the margins of society and face multiple intersecting oppressions. The prison is arguably a microcosm of society and perpetuates the same oppressive structural inequalities. It is often these racialised and gendered pains of imprisonment that are rarely discussed or mentioned both within scholarly literature and the public realm more widely.

Wed 4 December 2024

12 - 1 pm

Dr Alison Jobe, Associate Professor in Sociology and Criminology at Durham University and Dr. Helen Williams, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Sunderland

Disability History Month

'Exploring barriers to justice for people with learning disabilities/neurodiversity who have experienced sexual violence'

Join here

Dr Alison Jobe is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Criminology at Durham University. Alison’s research focuses on institutional responses to victims of violence and victim’s experiences of accessing justice and support services. This research theme has been explored through previous research projects on trafficking, asylum, sex work, rape/ sexual assault and child protection/ safeguarding. Alison is currently working on an ESRC funded research project, developing inclusive criminal justice responses to victims of sexual violence with Dr Helen Williams, that focused on criminal justice system responses to learning disabled/ autistic victims of sexual violence.

Dr Helen Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Sunderland. She is an activist and an academic in the social sciences. Her research specialisms include sexual violence and the experience of the criminal justice system for vulnerable or marginalised groups, including learning disabled and neurodivergent victims or witnesses. Helen is working on an ESRC funded research project with the aim of developing inclusive responses to victim-survivors of sexual violence.

Wed 12 February 2025

12 - 1 pm

Ellen Davenport-Pleasance, PhD Candidate and Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, University College London

LGBT History Month

‘Minority Stress and its Relation to Mental Health and Family Functioning in Bisexual+ Mother Families’

Join here

Ellen Davenport-Pleasance (she/her) is a final year Social Science PhD candidate at University College London. She has a BA in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, and an MPhil in Psychology from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include minority stress, new family forms, parenthood, child development, bisexuality, and relationships, and she has previously published work about how bisexual+ mothers come out to their children.

Her doctoral research project uses a mixed-methods approach to explore minority stress, meaning making, and family functioning in bisexual+ mother families. Theoretically, Ellen’s work is grounded in Minority Stress Theory, focusing on the links between experiences of minority stress and mental health outcomes, and Family Systems Theory, concentrating on the interconnected nature of family relationships. She also teaches psychology at UCL, Kings College London, and the University of Cambridge, alongside being a member of the leadership team of the Bisexual Research Group.

Wed 5 March 2025

2.30 - 3.30 pm

Dr Lisa Sugiura, Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Gender, University of Portsmouth

International Women's Day

‘Justifications of Misogynist Incels: Victimhood and Blame’

Join here

Dr Lisa Sugiura is Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Gender a in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth.  Lisa is an internationally recognised expert in online gender-based violence and technology-facilitated sexual violence and regularly appears on national and international media news outlets discussing these subjects. Her research projects, which include funding from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Home Office, involve the language of cybersexism, victims of computer misuse, the role of technology in domestic abuse, and extremist and misogynistic behaviours in manosphere and incel (involuntary celibate) communities. Lisa has published extensively in academic journals and magazines on topics including the online pharmaceutical trade, phishing, online research ethics and qualitative methodologies, rape culture, incels, and online misogyny. She is the author and co-editor of the books: Respectable deviance and purchasing medicine online: opportunities and risks for consumers Palgrave Macmillan, The incel rebellion: the rise of the manosphere and the virtual war against women Emerald publishing, and the Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology.