Criminology seminar: ‘In conversation’ with Dr Faith Gordon

In this session we have the pleasure of speaking to Dr Faith Gordon, Deputy Associate Dean for Research, and Associate Professor of Criminology with the Australian National University, ANU College of Law.

Faith has been involved in a number of fascinating and impactful research projects throughout her career. Faith was lead researcher on a large-scale ESRC Knowledge Exchange Project: Identifying and Challenging the Negative Media Representation of Children and Young People in Northern Ireland. She has also conducted research for The Hillsborough Independent Panel; the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative; Save the Children; the Children’s Law Centre and the Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland. More recently, Faith's ground-breaking research on online harms was referred to by the UK Joint Committee on Draft Online Safety Bill, House of Lords (2021).

In this session, we will discuss some of Faith’s most important and impactful work, exploring what motivates Faith to conduct her research and what she has sought to achieve through it. The session is open to all, but intended primarily for the benefit of Open University students studying DD215 Social Research: Crime, Justice and Society, as well as students studying qualifications that sit within the School of Social Sciences and Global Sciences more broadly.

Speaker:

Dr Faith Gordon, Deputy Associate Dean for Research, and Associate Professor of Criminology with the Australian National University, ANU College of Law. Faith’s first sole-authored monograph: Children, Young People and the Press in a Transitioning Society: Representations, Reactions and Criminalisation, was published as part of the Socio-Legal Series, Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. She has recently co-edited a collection on Leading Works in Law and Social Justice for Routledge’s Analysing Leading Works in Law series published in 2021, has co-edited a journal special issue for the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy entitled: ‘Beyond cybercrime: New perspectives on crime, harm and digital technologies’ and has a co-edited collection in press, on Access to Justice in Rural Communities: Global Perspectives with Hart Publishing in 2023.

Chair and Discussant:

Dr Keir Irwin-Rogers is a senior lecturer in criminology at The Open University. His research focuses on the health, safety and well-being of young people. Keir is currently a Co-Investigator on an ESRC-funded project entitled Public Health, Youth and Violence Reduction, which seeks to understand how best to reduce violence between young people. He recently co-authored the book, Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective, published by Bristol University Press in October 2022.

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