Dr Kevin J Brown
Lecturer in Law

  • Email: kevin.j.brown@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7611
  • Address: Newcastle Law School
    Newcastle University
    21-24 Windsor Terrace
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7UR
    United Kingdom

Introduction

Kevin J. Brown joined Newcastle Law School as a lecturer in August 2009. Prior to undertaking this post, he spent four years as an associate lecturer at the University of Manchester.

During his career to date, he has also spent time as a full-time researcher on a number of funded projects. He spent a year based in the Criminal Justice Research Unit at the Unveristy of Manchester on an ESF funded project. Prior to this, he worked on two projects for the Scottish Executive during which time he was based at the University of Aberdeen.

Roles and Responsibilities

Module Co-ordinator for Criminal Law

Staff/Student Law School Committee Member

Engagement and Alumni Relations

Client Interviewing

Qualifications

LLB Hons (University of Aberdeen)
Diploma in Legal Practice (University of Aberdeen)
PhD in Law and Socio-Legal Studies (University of Manchester)

Kevin recorded a podcast with Insite Law Magazine on undertaking a PhD in Law. It can be accessed here: www.insitelawmagazine.com/charonpodcast117.html

Previous Positions

Guest Lecturer, China University of Political Science and Law, September 2008.  

Associate Lecturer, University of Manchester, 2005-2009.

Research Assistant, Criminal Justice Research Unit, University of Manchester 2004-2005.

Research Assistant, University of Aberdeen, 2002-2003.

Memberships

Associate member of the Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security

External member of the Northumbria Law School Centre for Criminal and Civil Evidence and Procedure.

Socio-Legal Studies Association (Member of the Executive Committee)

British Society of Criminology  

European Society of Criminology

 

Research Interests

The use of civil and informal remedies to control criminal and anti-social conduct; regulation through social housing; the rehabilitation of sex offenders; community justice; communitarianism; the regulation of cyber crime; legal education.

Available in principle for media queries on anti-social behaviour and criminal justice.

 

Postgraduate Supervision

If you would like information on reading for a research degree at Newcastle Law School please see www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/postgraduate/research/index.htm

 

Funding Awarded

2012 - £199,000 (with six co-investigators) -EPSRC - SeRTES: Sense-Making Representation of a Technologically Enabled Society.

2012 - £5,000 -  Newcastle University's Social Renewal Societal Challenge Fund - to host two conferences on anti-social behaviour and responses to it. 

2011 - £2,872 - HASS Faculty Research Fund  - For a project entitled  'Analysing the Strategies of Social Housing Providers in the Governance and Regulation of Anti-Social Behaviour'.

2010 - £5,000 (with Colin Murray)- Newcastle University Teaching Innovation Grant - to fund research into the use of interactive learning technology to enhance law undergraduate lectures.

2007 - £16,000 (with Prof Andrew Sanders, Dr Graham Smith, Dr Toby Seddon, Dr Hannah Quirk) - ESRC - Funding for a seminar series on Criminal Justice and Regulation.

 

Esteem Indicators 

2011-2014 - Member of the Executive Commitee of the Socio-Legal Studies Association.

2007-2009: Co-organiser of an international seminar series funded by the ESRC entitled 'Regulation and criminal justice: developing a new framework for research and policy development’.

2007-2009: Participant in an ESRC funded seminar series entitled 'Governing through Anti-Social Behaviour'.

 

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

  

'A Case Study of Occupational Mission Expansion:  An Empirical Examination of the Expanding Role of the Anti-Social Behaviour Practitioner', Newcastle University, Law School Staff Seminars, January 2012.

(Invited Participant) 'Making Undergraduate Criminal Law Lectures Interactive with the Aid of Technology', Criminal Law Teaching Symposium, Sunderland University, November 2011.  

'Specialist Anti-Social Behaviour Practitioners: Criminalisers of Social Policy?' British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Northumbria University, July 2011. 

'Specialist Anti-Social Behaviour Practitioners: A new criminal justice profression?', SLSA Annual Conference, University of Sussex, April 2011.

(with Colin Murray) 'Socrates is Dead: Developing Interactive Law Lectures using Educational Technology',  SLSA Annual Conference, University of Sussex, April 2011.

(Invited Participant) 'By-Passing the Criminal Justice System: The Regulation of Behaviour through Social Housing', Criminal Justice in Crisis, University of Aberdeen, October 2008.

(Invited Participant) 'The Regulation of Behaviour', ESRC Regulation and Criminal Justice Seminar Series, September 2008.

(Invited Participant) 'The Development of Measures to Tackle Anti-Social Behaviour in Ireland (North and South)', ESRC Governing through Anti-Social Behaviour Seminar Series, September 2008.

'The ASBO: From Britain to Ireland and Beyond'. SLSA Annual Conference 2008, Manchester.

'The Spread of the ASBO: The Cross-National Appeal of the Anti-Social Behaviour Order'. European Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2007, Bologna.

'Barriers and Opprtunities to Employment for Sex Offenders' European Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2005, Krakow.

In 2012, Kevin was a nominee for the award in 'Innovative Teaching Methods of the Year’ in the Learning and Teaching Excellence (LATE) Awards run by Newcastle University Students’ Union. 

Undergraduate Teaching

Current teaching - Criminal Law

Previous teaching experience - Evidence Law, Legal Institutions and Methods, Criminal Justice. 

 

 

Postgraduate Teaching  

Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Money Laundering and Financial Crime.

External examiner for LLM in Criminal Law and Procedure at Sunderland University.