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November
Last year the month began with a visit to the USA. This year I'm not doing quite so much travelling but later in the month I will be attending the Supporting Responsive Curricula conference at MMU and the C-SAP annual conference in Birmingham (UK Midlands not Alabama!). I'm also offer to a meeting at C-SAP's offices in Birmingham University.
I've been busy this month with some of the organising for a Seminar Series and a Symposium.
I've also co-authored an article on sexual violence in cyberspace that has been submitted for publication and been asked to write a chapter on the same subject for a book.
October
A sad time as a good friend died. Karen Leander was well-known in Sweden within the Violence Against Women sector and many, many people from across Europe and the US attended her funeral in Stockholm in September. The messages posted on the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control gives some flavour of that. She will be missed by many.
Karen in Helsinki, European Group 1983, Photograph Bill Rolston
C-SAP has been successful in receiving funding from the JISC/HEA Open Educational Resources Programme. This new initiative will work across three main areas; institutionally managed learning materials, individually developed materials, and materials drawn from across a set of subject areas in conjunction with individuals and departments. I am involved in this on behalf of the Sociology department in MMU.
October also sees me taking on the role of Senior Associate with C-SAP which contains various responsibilities regarding teaching practice.
I was an external assessor at a PhD transfer at Edge Hill university this month.
I've been asked to write a chapter for Sandra Walklate's next book which will be a Handbook on Sexual Violence.
Notification of a seminar series at MMU includes a paper from me and at the end of the month I was interviewed by a couple of journalists, one of which resulted in this: The Sentinel Sex offenders face lie-detector tests
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Sex-offenders-face-lie-detector-tests/article-1456660-detail/article.html
August/September
A car accident broke a few ribs and stopped work during this time!
July
This month began with a guest lecture at the University of West Florida and a workshop on the relationship between violence and mental health at Searchy Hospital in Alabama.
Photo: Dr Kathy Johnson and Dr Helen Jones in Florida
Staff development work this month includes co-hosting a Web 2.0 workshop for the Faculty on wikis, video and online surveys.
I've been invited to write a chapter for Sandra Walklate's new book due out next year. I've also been invited to external on a viva for a PhD conversion and to co-facilitate a C-SAP event in Scotland but the dates conflict so something will have to give!
I also hosted a meeting of the National Criminology Teaching Award steering group.
A London trip to Westminster University caught me by surprise (it is expensive to book train travel at the last minute).
May and June 2009
Well I don't know where May went - in a blur of marking and externalling I suppose - so here is the update of where the year has taken me so far!
Earlier this year I mentioned that I will be editing a special edition of ELiSS. Well the submission instructions can be found on the ELiSS website and the theme is about 'Teaching Sensitive Issues'. Deadline date is January 31st 2010.
I've been kept busy by C-SAP in helping on the revised UCAS codings for Criminology and also in a new collaborative project together with JISC.
(Photo - Darren Marsh of C-SAP with Helen)
A successful 'Employability Festival Day' was held within the Faculty - photos below.
In shot - David Peters, me and Penny Renwick. Group - me, Jess Edwards, Ann Holmes, Bob Glass and Nicoletta DiCiolla.
I'm currently chasing a couple of research funding bids - in collaboration with partners in other universities. More news of these if they are successful later in the year!
Next month I'll be busy in the US doing a guest lecture at the University of West Florida and also holding a workshop on the relationship between violence and mental health at Searchy Hospital in Alabama.
April 2009
I started the month by presenting a paper at Liverpool University at a British Society of Criminology (North West branch) Symposium on Violence The conference paper was titled - ''I'll say it again, very little has changed': Telling the same stories of rape'.
Over a couple of weekends I'll be assisting at the new volunteer training course for the Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre for Women on Merseyside. http://www.rasamerseyside.org/about.asp
I've been asked to review an application for the Nuffield Foundation Small Grants Scheme. http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/go/grants/smallgrants/page_123.html
Next on the agenda is a visit to Glasgow Caledonian University and the police Violence Reduction Unit.
I've had a contribution accepted to - B. Fisher and S. Lab (eds.) Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention. Sage (publication forthcoming). There are a couple of other writing projects in the pipeline too.
March 2009
I've been so busy this month I've hardly had chance to do the updates!
Had to share this blog entry about women & violence as portrayed in music - A song 'He hit me and it felt like a kiss' - you have to listen to this!
http://www.generalblogofcrime.com/2009/03/violence-against-women-in-music.html
The Spring term comes to an end this month and that also sees the end of the 2009 International E-communication Exchange, This year there were over 500 students who between them posted 6,000 messages. It has been a great experience for most (students and academics alike) but this might have been the last large-scale exchange for the foreseeable future.
I have been very busy organising an 'Employability' event for the university due to be scheduled for June and ethical issues have also been high on the agenda.
A new staff photo was taken - it's not brilliant but it will do:
An enjoyable weekend was spent at rape crisis training for new volunteers and I'm continuing that theme next month with a conference paper at Liverpool University on the continuing role of rape crisis.
February 2009
I'm starting discussions about a special edition for ELiSS which I will be co-editing. It's all a bit hush-hush at the moment but check back in a couple of months for some more news on that!
I've been asked to become a reviewer for the Higher Education Academy. "We draw on the knowledge and expertise of a range of peer reviewers across the academic community ... Peer reviewing offers reviewers interesting professional development and an insight into work being undertaken across the sector".
I'm spending the first part of the month over in California where I'll be visiting with international partners from the International E-communication Exchange, delivering a talk about my recent book and work within the area of Violence Against Women at California State University Fresno, delivering another talk about violence against women to students and presenting a conference paper at the Western Criminology Society annual conference in San Diego.
Western Society of Criminology - Dr Keith Clement, Dr Helen Jones and Dr Kathrine Johnson.
Happy New Year!
A busy month beckons with visits to Brighton University, a C-SAP conference and a trip to California to a conference and to give a talk at California State University Fresno. Update: I was caught up in the Westline train disruption on my visit to Brighton and ended up getting a National Express bus back. The following week at the C-SAP conference in London, all trains were cancelled due to a fatality on the line, so it was another late night home then too. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an uneventful trip to the US!
Various meetings on Employability are planned in the university for the coming month.
I have been asked to review two journal article. One is for a special edition of ELiSS and the other is Violence and Victims.
I will be taking students on a fieldtrip to a CCTV control room.
Tag cloud of my research
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