The Critical Research Seminar Series
Critical Research Seminars: Providing a forum for debate, discussion and policy interventions
The Critical Research Seminar Series was established in 2011. The seminars are free events and are designed to provide a platform for academics, activists, students, practitioners, policy makers and members of the public to engage in critical debate and discussion around a range of issues concerning social justice and human rights. The first seminar took place in October 2011 and was delivered by Robert King, one of the Angola 3, who, after a wrongful conviction, spent 29 years in solitary confinement in the US prison system before he was released. Since 2011, a range of speakers, have contributed to the seminar series.
Other videos of speakers
Harriet Wistrich Human Rights Lawyer
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The 2016-17 seminar series included talks from:
- Steve Tombs, Sheila Coleman, Dave Whyte and Pilgrim Tucker speaking on Hillsborough and Grenfell: Struggles for 'Truth, Justice and Accountability'
- Sheila Coleman from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign on the search for truth, justice and accountability after Hillsborough
- Joanne Gilmore, Will Jackson and Helen Monk on community perspectives on the policing of anti-fracking demonstrators in the North West
- Robert King and Albert Woodfox from the Angola 3 on racism and America’s ‘Criminal Injustice System’
- Carol Smart on sexism and misogyny in Criminology and in the criminal justice system
- Thomas Tonatiuth Lopez (in collaboration with Writing on the Wall, the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University) on the Standing Rock Dakota Pipeline protest and the degradation of Native American burial sites
Past Critical Research Seminars
- Transforming Rehabilitation: Privatising probation and the failure of marketisation
- Grenfell Revisited: Struggles for ‘Truth, Justice and Accountability’
- Hillsborough & Grenfell: Struggles for 'Truth, Justice and Accountability'
- Sheila Coleman – The Hillsborough Justice Campaign: The Struggle for Truth, Justice and Accountability
- Carol Smart – 40th Anniversary Women, Crime and Criminology
- Keep Moving: The Policing of the Barton Moss Community Protection
- The Angola 3: The Struggle for Freedom in the USA’s Criminal ‘Injustice’ System
- Thomas Tonatiuh Lopez – International Indigenous Youth Council: Resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock
Faq Items
2011 - Launch of the Critical Research Seminar
Date |
Speaker and seminar title |
3rd February |
Danny Dorling: Injustice, inequality, harm, crime and criminality |
2011 - 2012 Seminar Series
Date |
Speaker and seminar title |
12th October |
Robert King: The Story of a Black Panther |
26th October |
Vicky Canning and Roy Coleman: ‘Look out for yourself’: Synopticism, Panopticism and Sexual Violence |
16th November |
Vickie Cooper: Gendered Ideologies of the Home in Semi-Penal Institutions within the Community |
1st December 2011 |
Joe Sim: The Fish Rots from the Capitalist Head: Riots in the Wasteland of the Free |
14th December |
Sandra Walklate: Who is the Victim of Crime?: Blame, Innocence and Responsibility |
11th January |
Paddy Hillyard: Baneful bankers and dodgy doctors: Social Harm and Zemiology’s challenge to criminology |
25th January |
Bijan Pant and Sara Parker: Aging in Nepal: Mapping service provision and the role of NGOs in meeting the needs of the elderly in Nepal |
8th February |
Steve Higginson: Liverpool After Dark: the retail ‘gaze’, sexsumerism and misogyny in the party city |
22nd February |
Helen Rogers: Liberated Prisoners: Responses to Christian Rehabilitation in Early Nineteenth-century England |
7th March |
Dave Jacques, Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte: Toxic Capital: Death and Degradation in the De-industrialised City |
21st March |
Hazel Croall: Food Crime: Local and Global Dimensions |
2012 - 2013 Seminar Series
Date |
Speaker and seminar title |
10th October |
Sheila Coleman: The Hillsborough Justice Campaign |
14th November |
Zoe Alker: ‘Go on. Work him like a man!’ Masculinity and Street Violence in Mid-Victorian Liverpool |
28th November |
Samantha Fletcher and Tanya Paton: Challenges for the Occupy movement |
12th December |
Rhianne Jones: Invisible Nodes in the Network: Social Media, Commercial Activity and Digital Capital |
30th January |
Ceri Anwen Jones, Yvonne McNamara and Tracy Ramsey: The Will to Empower? Highs and lows of Liverpool young researcher’s network |
13th February |
Matt Jones: A Police Diversity Stone Left Unturned?: an empirical exploration into the occupational experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual police officers across England & Wales
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27th February |
Helen Monk: The Rise of 'Raunch Culture': Young Women, Sexual Coercion and Social Control |
13th March |
Jo Phoenix: Out of place: The policing and criminalisation of sexually exploited girls and young women |
2013 - 2014 Seminar Series
Date |
Speaker and seminar title |
14th October |
Adam Ford, Joe Halewood, Lynn Hancock and Gerry Mooney: Bedroom Tax, Benefit Caps and the State |
6th November |
Patrick Williams: Becoming the ‘Other’: Challenging the Race and Gang Nexus |
4th December |
Kirsteen Paton: State Sponsored Gentrification |
15th January |
Val Walsh: Men and Masculinity in an Outsourced World |
12th February |
Andrea Beckmann: Fifty Shades and Beyond: Researching Intimate 'Bodily Practices' |
12th March |
Liz Kelly: Changing the Discourses on Sexual Consent: Lessons from Research with Young People |
2014 International Conference
Date |
Title of International Conference |
September |
International Annual Conference for the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control “Resisting the demonisation of ‘the Other’: State, nationalism and social control in a time of crisis” |
2015
Date |
Title |
25th February |
Hazel Kemshall: Risk in an Age of Austerity: What Next for Offender Risk Assessment and Management? |
2015 - 2016 Seminar Series
Date |
Speaker and title of seminar |
21st January |
Sheila Coleman: The Hillsborough Justice Campaign |
25th February |
Joanna Gilmore, Will Jackson and Helen Monk: ‘Keep moving!’: A report on the Policing of the Barton Moss Community Protection Camp
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16th March |
Professor Carol Smart, Professor Richard Collier and Professor Frances Heidensohn: Celebrating 40 years of Women, Crime and Criminology |
Getting here
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Contact us
To register your interest in attending a Critical Research Seminar event, or to be put on our mailing list, please contact us at CCSE@ljmu.ac.uk.