Institute News Archive
Below are previously listed news items regarding the Institute.
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Summer 2011
Events:
- The 2011 Evidence-Based Policing Conference took place 4-6 July.
- The conference Evidence-Based Prevention of Bullying and Youth Violence: European Innovations and Experiences was held 4-5 July in the Moller Centre.
- The 2011 Nigel Walker lecture was given by Professor Richard Tremblay on 2 June at 6pm: Origins, Development and Prevention of Chronic Physical Aggression: From Criminology to Obstetrics and Epigenetics. The winners of the 2010 Nigel Walker prize were Drs Sarah Bennett and Leonidas Cheolitis. The prizes were presented at the lecture.
- The 2011 Bill McWilliams lecture was given by Professor Peter Raynor on 22 June: Is Probation Still Possible?
- The STARR project held an international conference in Sophia, Bulgaria 7-10 June 2011. Link to this article about STARR
http://cep-probation.org/default.asp?nbId=100&prsid=746&page_id=65&news_item=326
Staff:
- Professor King has now retired, but will continue in the Institute as an Honorary Research Fellow from 1 March 2011 for 3 years.
- Dr Ben Crewe was appointed to the post Director of the MSt Penology Programme and Deputy Director to the Prison Research Centre from 1 February 2011.
- Dr Justice Tankebe was appointed as a Teaching Associate to the MSt Police Programme from 1 July 2011.
- Professor Manuel Eisner will be on sabbatical during the Michaelmas 2011 and Lent 2012 terms.
Awards and Honours and other Appointments:
- Professor Lawrence Sherman has been awarded the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal form the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA), from 1st November 2011
- Professor Eisner has been elected as the recipient of the 2011 Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology. The award acknowledges criminological scholarship on problems of crime and justice manifested outside the United States.
- Loraine Gelsthorpe FRSA, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the M.Phil Programme in the Institute of Criminology, and Fellow of Pembroke College, has been elected President of the British Society of Criminology. The election was at the British Society of Criminology annual conference held last week (at Northumbria University this year).
- Professors Farrington and Lösel have been awarded Honorary Professorships by the Zhejiang Police College in Hangzhou and the Delinquency and Drug Research Centre of the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chonqing, China.
- Professor P-O Wikström has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
Social Events and Other:
- Criminology for all seasons - 50th Anniversary of the first diploma in Criminology
Spring 2010
Events News
- On Thursday 13th May, Professor Stephen Woods, visiting from Australia, will give the Thursday evening seminar on Psychopathy - Personality Disorder or Different Species
- The 2010 Nigel Walker Lecture will be given by Professor Alison Liebling on 26th May at 6pm: Distinctions and Distinctiveness in the Work of Prison Officers: Legitimacy & Authority Revisited
- The 3rd International Evidence Based Policing Conference took place on 5th - 7th July 2010. View the presentations HERE.
Staff News
- Dr. Heather Strang has been appointed as Deputy Director of the Police Executive Programme with effect from 15th March 2010.
- From 3rd May 2010, Dr. Liz Hales has been appointed to work on the ESRC funded project 'The Criminalisation of migrant Women' as Co-investigator. Professor Gelsthorpe will be Principal Investigator on the project.
- Dr. Joseph Murray has been successful in winning a five year Fellowship with the Wellcome Trust, based in the Department of Psychiatry.
- Dr. Adrian Grounds will retire at the end of April 2010, but will continue as the Director of the MPhil programme until September 2010.
- Professor Friedrich Lösel is on sabbatical for the Easter Term 2010.
- Professor Alison Liebling will be on sabbatical during the Michaelmas 2010 and Easter 2011 terms. Professor David Farrington will take over as Director of the PhD Programme for 2010-11.
- Dr. Mandeep Dhami has been selected as one of the advisors to the Sentencing Council for England and Wales.
Awards, Honours & Other Appointments
- Jake Phillips (Ph.D. Student) has won the Brian Williams Memorial Prize (part of the British Journal for Community Justice) with a paper on the Social Construction of Probation in England and Wales, which will be published later this summer.
- Alexandra Cox (PhD student) has been awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute in the USA, a foundation run by George Soros. Alexandra’s project is to develop and implement research and protocols for discovering and improving relationships between youth and staff in juvenile facilities, and thereby increasing the likelihood of positive outcomes for incarcerated youth.
- Leon Digard (PhD student) will be taking up the post of Research Associate with the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, working in their Centre for Sentencing and Corrections, starting in June.
- Dr. Maria Ttofi, Leverhulme & Newton Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, has been awarded a non-stipendiary fellowship at Wolfson College.
November 2009
Staff News
- Dr. Adrian Grounds has been appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow for three years from 1st May 2010
- Dr. Gareth Hughes' appointment as an Honorary Research Fellow has been extended for a further three years to 30th September 2012
- Dr. Joseph Murray has been promoted to Senior Research Associate
Awards & Honours
- Dr. Loraine Gelsthorpe has been awarded an ESRC grant for a project entitled The Criminalisation of Migrant Women
- Dr. Joseph Murray has been awarded research funding from the Nuffield Foundation for a project entitled Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Boy's Delinquent Development and Mental Health
- Victor Lissack Award & Victor Lissack Award Winners
October 2009
Events News
Anniversary Conference 24th September 2009
On Thursday September 24th 2009 we held a one day conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of
the founding of the Institute, looking at the history and current work.
Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the
University, opened the event along with Professor David Ibbetson,
Chair of the Law Faculty, and Professor Friedrich Lösel,
Institute Director. Professor Roger Hood (Oxford)
gave the opening address on the historical perspective, and the closing speech was given by
Professor Paul Wiles, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government. The remainder of the programme was presented by senior academics
of the Institute and covered three main themes: Policing, Prisons and Punishment (Legitimacy), Prevention and Treatment, and Crime and Modern Communitees.
Visitors included former directors such as Donald West, director of the British Societyof Criminology,
Dr. Anne Brunton, and donors to the Institute Jack and Mary Wakefield; but with over 280 guests we can only mention a handful of names.
At the conference the Institute's anniversary book, Challenging Crime: a Portrait of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology was launched and copies are available from the Institute or the publisher Third Millenium.
Staff News
- Dr. Manuel Eisner became a Professor with effect from 1 October 2009.
- Dr. Katrin Müller-Johnson gave birth to a daughter, Leonie Julia Johnson, in July.
Awards & Honours
- Recent Ph.D. student, Kofi Boakye, has won the Betty Behrens Research Fellowship from Clare Hall from 1 October 2009 for three years.
- Recent Ph.D. student, Maria Ttofi, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1 October 2009 for three years.
May/June 2009
Events News
Conferences
The 2nd International Conference on Evidence-Based Policing takes place 1-3 July 2009 at Murray Edwards College.
Staff News
- Dr. Manuel Eisner will become a Professor with effect from 1 October 2009.
- Dr. Katrin Müller-Johnson, Lecturer in Applied Criminology is currently on maternity leave.
- Sarah van Mastrigt, Postdoctoral Fellow, is leaving at the end of June to become an assistant professor in the department of Psychology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
- Professor Joanna Shapland has now completed her time as a Visiting Fellow.
- Lucy Markson and Karen Souza Souza as Research Assistants on the Ormiston Project.
- Professor Ronald Francis as a Visiting Fellow until the end of September
- Professor Lawrence Sherman has been awarded the 2009 Thorsten Sellin Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
- Dr. Loraine Gelsthorpe has been elected a Fellow to the Royal Society of Arts - for her ‘distinguished contribution to criminal justice’.
- Professor Alison Liebling has been awarded over £600,000 from NOMS over 3 years from 1 Oct 2009 - 30 Sept 2012.
- Professor David Farrington has received a grant of £24,000 from the Barrow Cadbury Trust for work on the Cambridge Study.
- Kofi Boakye has won the Betty Behrens Research Fellowship from Clare Hall from 1 October 2009 for three years.
- Maria Ttofi has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Postdoctoral Fellowship for 3 years.
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