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Dr Thom Brooks
- Telephone:
- 0191 2225288 (work)
- e-mail:
- thom.brooks@newcastle.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- British Politics
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Justice and Political Philosophy (esp Equality, Fairness, Recognition
- Public Policy (esp Climate Change, Criminal Justice, Punishment)
Dr Elaine Campbell
- Telephone:
- (0191) 222 5030 (work)
- e-mail:
- elaine.campbell@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Cultural politics of law, justice, crime and punishment
- Criminologies of popular culture and media
- Emotions and aesthetics of crime and punishment
Professor Richard Collier
- Telephone:
- (0191) 222 6655/7625(secretary) (work)
- e-mail:
- richard.collier@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Gender and law: law and changing relations beween women and men; esp focus on law, men and masculinities.
- Fatherhood and law and legal rights and responsibilities of men and women
- Family policy and law incl (general) relationship between law and social change
- Crime, criminology esp gender and crime, men/masculinities and youth crime: also (general) developments in legal education, law schools and higher education.
Ms Tina Gharavi
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)191 222 3520 (work)
- 07970176732 (out of hours)
- e-mail:
- tina.gharavi@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Media production, digital culture and technology, cultural industries
- Community media, widening participation, local activism, anti-racism/race awareness
- Contemporary Iranian issues, Islam
- Asylum seekers and refugees, integration, terrorism-related hysteria
Dr Anoop Nayak
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 6347 (work)
- e-mail:
- anoop.nayak@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Youth cultures: nightlife; labour/education; social change; poverty and class
- Ethnicity and race: racist violence; local history; regional migration; anti-racism; Englishness/Whiteness; youth
- Masculinities: education/labour; young men; drinking; football
- Popular culture: cultural studies; Geordie culture; music/dance
Mr Tim Townshend
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 7814 (work)
- e-mail:
- t.g.townshend@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Urban Design - particularly built environment and health issues, including obesity and alcohol consumption
- Conservation of the historic environment
Professor John Veit-Wilson
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 7498 (work)
- +44 (0) 191 266 2428 (out of hours)
- e-mail:
- j.veit-wilson@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Poverty; Deprivation; 'how much is enough?'
- Income maintenance - adequacy of social security, minimum wage, pensions, etc
- Minimum income standards -- how governments set their income adequacy standards and benefits.
- Social exclusion -- what does it mean and what should be done about it.
Dr Geoff Vigar
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 8338 (work)
- e-mail:
- g.i.vigar@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Transport planning and the environment
- Transport planning: policy and decision-making
- Urban plannning
Emeritus Professor Jane Wheelock
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 7497 (work)
- e-mail:
- jane.wheelock@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Labour market and women Labour market and families
- Small business and the Family Unpaid work in the household
- Domestic and informal economy Childcare
- Regional socio-economic change Gender and work issues