Summary of Staff Research Interests

Broadhurst, Karen
Research interests. I am currently involved in a series of socio-legal studies examining the interface between welfare and the law. I have previously undertaken a number of organisational studies funded by government agencies, research councils and independent organisations. My work has examined the effectiveness of decision-making in public services as well as the the ethos and delivery of family support. I am particularly interested in 'practice near research' with a preference for ethnographic and qualitative methods. I have a particular interest in micro-analytic methods of discourse and conversation analysis. International Research Networks: I am a member of DANASWAC- international network of researchers interested in discourse and narrative methods in social work and counselling. This is the link to the network: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sostyo/danaswac/memb.htm. In 2009, I founded the interdisciplinaryChild Welfare Research Unit, within the deparment of Applied Social Science at Lancaster University. Web address:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/cwru/index.htm Editorial Work I am a member of the editorial boards of Child and Family Social Work (Wiley)and the new journal: Families,Relationships, Socieities (Policy Press).

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Fitzpatrick (nee Taylor), Claire
Young Offenders, Children in Care, The link between Youth Justice & Child Welfare, Criminal Careers, The Use of Evidence and Knowledge in Criminology & Criminal Justice.

Follis, Luca
Comparative and Historical Criminology Social and Critical Theory Human Rights Capital Punishment Terrorism Prisons and prisoner rights Sociology of Time Sovereignty

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Grover, Chris
Discipline and social security; loaning social security benefits; political economy and poverty and social security; social security policy and low wages; crime, inequality and social policy.

Iganski, Paul
'Hate crime'; antisemitism; 'race', racism, crime and justice; crime and human rights; equality of opportunity and workplace diversity.

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Kirby, Stuart
Policing, Organised Crime, Crime reduction and investigation, Community Safety, Offender behaviour - especially in relation to violent/sexual crime.

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Mason, Claire
Family support practices Practice Research Reflexive Practice Participatory methods

May-Chahal, Corinne
Gambling, Health and Social Impact Assessment, Child and Family Welfare, Interpersonal Violence, Public Health approaches to Social Problems, Social Responsibility

Measham, Fiona
Fiona Measham is an internationally renowned researcher with 20 years' experience in the field of drug and alcohol studies, gender, licensed leisure and the night time economy.

Moore, Karenza
Research interests include (poly)drug use, specifically in clubbing contexts. Young people and UK/global electronic dance music club cultures. Gender and drug use. Ketamine use. GHB/GBL use. Harm reduction. Pleasure and drug use. Policing of pleasure, and cultures of control in contemporary societies. The night-time economy (NTE). 'War on Drugs', prohibition policies, and alternatives. ABC classification system. Deterrence. Displacement. Cybercrime. Crime and new technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones. The New Interaction Order (NIO) in public/semi-public spaces

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Morgan, Hannah
My research interests lie predominantly in the field of disability studies and include the self-organisation and citizenship of disabled people; service provision for adult service users; disability policy at a UK and European level; and mobility and social capital in relation to (disabled) careers.

Paylor, Ian
Social exclusion; youth; drugs; income maintenance; the relationship between crime and social factors, the 'art' of evaluation, protest, policing, youth justice, social work.

Penna, Sue
1. Social theoretical accounts of social change. I have been interested in developing social theoretical accounts of policy issues, and most of my work has concentrated on situating welfare and criminal justice policy within social theoretical problematics of historical and contemporary social change. 2. Policy as a technology of governance, with particular reference to the connections between policy areas in the European Union and other sites of multilevel governance. 3. Transnational organised crime : a) the relationship between, and apparently mutual dependence of, legal and illegal markets and legal and illegal forms of authority; b)environmental crime, with reference to the disposal of hazardous wastes. 4. Organised crime, terrorism and the production of discourses and sites of (in)security. 5. Electronic databases and debates around the 'surveillant assemblage'.

Piggott, Linda
I have undertaken a broad range of applied social research within the areas of disability, with specific regard to employment, teaching and learning in Higher Education, and widening participation in education

Sapey, Bob
Most of my research has been concerned with the relationship between social workers and disabled people in the provision of support services. I have also studied the use of technology within social work and the impact this has on practice. Finally, to complete this triangle of interest, I have examined the impact on technology on the social construction of disability.

Simmill-Binning, Cheryl
Evaluation and research on issues around crime and disorder, local government, Primary Care Trusts,Third sector and community groups. Looking at service commissioning, access to services and social service provision development. Other interests - the intersection between experts and lay persons in the decision making process including around social construction of transport safety technology e.g. traffic calming.

Smith, David
Criminal justice policy; criminology; social work with offenders

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Taylor, Carolyn
Qualitative studies of health & welfare using discourse and textual analyses - a particular interest is in the production & use of documents in organisations. Child health and welfare services past and present. The writing of social work and welfare history.

Wilson, Alison
Drug Related Deaths Alcohol & Drug Use Drug & Alcohol Service Evaluation

Wise, Sue
Equality, diversity & social justice; feminist theory; LGBT issues in social policy; new social movements; death & dying