High Commissioner and Counsellor of Lesotho visit Hallam
On Friday 18 October, the Honourable High Commissioner of Lesotho, Mrs Rethabile Mokaeane and Counsellor Ms Lineo Palime visited Hallam accompanied by Africa’s Gift founder Ken Dunn, came to meet with the VC Chris Husbands before having a tour of the Helena Kennedy Centre for Criminal Justice. The visit follows a trip by students and staff from the department of Law & Criminology with Africa’s Gift to Lesotho, to promote the use of Wonderbags to local communities.
Wonke award shortlisting
Congratulations to Dr Liz Austen, Senior Lecturer in Research who has been shortlisted for a WonkHE award for her blog, Once upon a time: hearing student stories in the research category of the Wonkhe awards for contribution to improving policy making in higher education. The WonkHE awards take place on 4 November where the winners will be announced.
Dr Gregory Ioannidis, Course Leader for LLM International Sports Law in Practice, spoke at the ‘Play the Game’ conference in Colorado on 15 October where over 170 speakers spoke across 40 different sessions about their thoughts and opinions on a wide range of the most topical questions in the world of sport. Dr Ioannidis talked about ‘doping decisions, in the pursuit of uniform sentencing’.
Dr Ioannidis has also announced that he has been appointed as a member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Pro Bono legal Service Global Mentoring scheme.
Lecturer awarded the Ruskin Medal
Criminology Lecturer, Dr Madhumita Pandey, has been awarded the Ruskin medal from Anglia Ruskin University, for her PhD research exploring gender socialization, specifically looking at convicted violent offenders in a prison in Delhi.
“A vital as well as controversial theme emerging from my work was how rapists are ordinary men and that they are in a unique position to give us information on the sexual violence that is perpetrated in our society.”
Since joining Hallam, Dr Pandey’s research has been used to develop India’s first safety application which helps connect citizens to reach one another in times of distress.
In addition to this, Dr Pandey is developing a pilot Sex Offender Rehabilitation Training programme for Indian jails and is planning to expand her work by revisiting convicted sex offenders in Delhi prison next year to study their perceptions of shame associated with their crime.
Political articles published
Jake Philip, Reader in Criminology, has recently had two articles published:
‘Dying under probation supervision: what role for human rights legislation’ in Political Quarterly
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