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Professor Elaine Campbell

Professor of Criminology

  • Email: elaine.campbell@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5030
  • Address: Room: 4.126
    School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
    Henry Daysh Building
    University of Newcastle
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Roles and Responsibilities

Convenor of the Visualities Research Group: www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/research/groups/visualities/ 

Director of Research (Sociology) 

Qualifications

B.A., University of Plymouth, Social Policy and Administration, 1989

Cert.Ed., University of Exeter, 1990

Ph.D., University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Criminology, 2001

Memberships

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Black Female Professors Forum - http://blackfemaleprofessorsforum.org

European Society of Criminology

European Sociological Association

ESA Sociology of Culture Research Network


Funding and Awards (since 2000)

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2022) (In)secure Futures: Policing, Techno-Digital Worlds and Speculative Fictions. 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023. £54,287. Grant Award Reference: RF-2022-111.

Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal (NISR) Funding: Foodscapes, Identities and Ageing: A Visual Ecology of Cultural Citizenship. 1 July 2014 - 30 June 2015. £4545.76. Co-Principal Investigator with Dr Cathrine Degnen.

ESRC Impact Grant Award £5,000.00, Nov 2007 to Feb 2009. Funds secured to host a one-day conference, Rethinking Confidence in the Criminal Justice System: Alternative Perspectives on Public Understandings - 13 November 2008, Research Beehive, Newcastle University.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership in Criminal Justice funded by ESRC (50%) and Northumbria Criminal Justice Board (50%): £120,000, Sept 2006 - Sept 2009. Sole Investigator/Dr Ruth Graham is KTP Academic Support.

Clear Track: The CSV Virtual Young Offenders' Institution: Funded by CSV (£160,000). September 2005 to August 2009. Sole Investigator

Criminal Justice and `Customer Satisfaction' within Black and Minority Ethnic Communities funded by Northumbria Local Criminal Justice Board/Criminal Justice System Race Unit Challenge Fund: £11,175.00, Jan 2007 - Sept 2007. Sole Investigator.

South Tyneside Mentoring Scheme. Funded by South Tyneside Youth Offending Team (£7,588). January 2003 to June 2003. Principal Investigator.

Early Intervention Follow-up Study: Funded by Gateshead Youth Offending Team (£4,467). October 2002 to January 2003 (Co-investigator with Dr Robin Humphrey)

Second Regional Evaluation of the Youth Inclusion Programme: The Northern Region. Funded by the Youth Justice Board (£71,500). March 2002 to March 2003 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).


Regional Evaluation of the Youth Inclusion Programme: The Northern Region. Funded by the Youth Justice Board (£120,000). July 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

Pathways to Youth Crime Reduction. Funded by Sunderland City Council and Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£160,000). April 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

Bail Support Evaluation. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£12,000). April 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

Early Intervention. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£52,000). April 2001 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

Substance Misuse Amongst High Risk Populations of Young People. Funded by the Northumberland Health Action Zone (£39,609). December 2000 to September 2001 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robert Hollands).

Northumbria Police Community and Race Relations Audit. Research Consultant for Northumbria Police (£500). July 2000 to September 2000. Audit published in Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC) (2000) Winning the Race: Embracing Diversity. London: HMSO

Youth Crime Audit: City of Gateshead. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£5,000). April 2000 to May 2000 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

 

Research

Research interests

I am an interdisciplinary criminologist working across criminology, cultural studies and cultural geographies. My research and publishing interests centre on:

  • Substantive issues related to cultural and spatial understandings of criminal justice; policing, security and governance; social justice and citizenship; marginalised and precarious lives; conflict, transgression and resistance; penal cultures and politics; surveillance and risk; popular culture and media; the emotions and aesthetics of crime; the ethics of punishment;
  • Theoretical explorations using poststructuralist frameworks – including assemblage, actor-network, Foucauldian, topological and post-political theories; Baudrillardian, Bakhtinian and Barthesian cultural theories;
  • Epistemological and methodological innovations in qualitative methodologies including: ethnographic research; sensory ethnographies; mobile methodologies; critical discourse and media analysis; visual methodologies; arts-based methodologies; participatory action research;

    I have additional interests in developing ideas associated with:

    • sociology of art
    • musicology
    • performative and creative art
    • literary theory
    • aesthetics
    • poststructuralism

    Funding and Awards (since 2000)

    Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2022) (In)secure Futures: Policing, Techno-Digital Worlds and Speculative Fictions. £54,287. 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023. Grant Award Reference: RF-2022-111.

    Foodscapes, Identities and Ageing: A Visual Ecology of Cultural Citizenship. NISR Award £4,545.72, 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015. OSR/0324/NISR/0001. Co-PI with Dr Cathrine Degnen

    ESRC Impact Grant Award £5,000.00, Nov 2007 to Feb 2009. Funds secured to host a one-day conference, Rethinking Confidence in the Criminal Justice System: Alternative Perspectives on Public Understandings - 13 November 2008, Research Beehive, Newcastle University.

    Knowledge Transfer Partnership in Criminal Justice funded by ESRC (50%) and Northumbria Criminal Justice Board (50%): £120,000, Sept 2006 - Sept 2009. Sole Investigator/Dr Ruth Graham is KTP Academic Support.

    Clear Track: The CSV Virtual Young Offenders' Institution: Funded by CSV (£160,000). September 2005 to August 2009. Sole Investigator

    Criminal Justice and `Customer Satisfaction' within Black and Minority Ethnic Communities funded by Northumbria Local Criminal Justice Board/Criminal Justice System Race Unit Challenge Fund: £11,175.00, Jan 2007 - Sept 2007. Sole Investigator.

    South Tyneside Mentoring Scheme. Funded by South Tyneside Youth Offending Team (£7,588). January 2003 to June 2003. Principal Investigator.

    Early Intervention Follow-up Study: Funded by Gateshead Youth Offending Team (£4,467). October 2002 to January 2003 (Co-investigator with Dr Robin Humphrey)

    Second Regional Evaluation of the Youth Inclusion Programme: The Northern Region. Funded by the Youth Justice Board (£71,500). March 2002 to March 2003 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

    Regional Evaluation of the Youth Inclusion Programme: The Northern Region. Funded by the Youth Justice Board (£120,000). July 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

    Pathways to Youth Crime Reduction. Funded by Sunderland City Council and Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£160,000). April 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

    Bail Support Evaluation. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£12,000). April 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

    Early Intervention. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£52,000). April 2001 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

    Substance Misuse Amongst High Risk Populations of Young People. Funded by the Northumberland Health Action Zone (£39,609). December 2000 to September 2001 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robert Hollands).

    Northumbria Police Community and Race Relations Audit. Research Consultant for Northumbria Police (£500). July 2000 to September 2000. Audit published in Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC) (2000) Winning the Race: Embracing Diversity. London: HMSO

    Youth Crime Audit: City of Gateshead. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£5,000). April 2000 to May 2000 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

     

    Conference papers since 2007

    Campbell, Elaine (2018) `Dark diffractions: a performative hauntology of 10 Rillington Place’. Invited paper. 18th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Sarajevo. 29 Aug to 1 Sep 2018.

    Campbell, Elaine (2018) `Three-dimensional urban security: layers, spheres, volumes, milieus'. Invited paper. 18th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Sarajevo. 29 Aug to 1 Sep 2018.

    Campbell, Elaine (2017) `Three-dimensional cities: vertical security and the politics of visibility'. Invited paper. 14th European Sociological Association Conference. Athens. 29 Aug to 1 Sep 2017.

    Campbell, Elaine (2016) `Unruly cities: subjectivities, materialities and riotous assemblages'. Invited paper. Spatial Justice in the City Workshop. CRESC Open University and CUCR Goldsmiths, funded by the ESRC. Milton Keynes.30 June - 1 July 2016

    Campbell, Elaine (2016) `Matters of riot: subjectivities, materialities and riotous practices'. Invited paper. Theorising Violence Workshop. York University, Toronto. 16-17 May 2016.

    Campbell, Elaine (2015) `Visual democracy and policing: the power of spectatorship’. Invited paper. 12th European Sociological Association Conference. Prague. 25-28 August 2015

    Campbell, Elaine (2015) `Policing as assemblage: the emergence of digital vigilantism’, Invited paper. British Society of Criminology Annual Conference. University of Plymouth. 1-3 July 2015.

    Campbell, Elaine (2014) `Policing paedophilia: assembling bodies, spaces and things', Invited workshop contributor. Decentring Security: Building and Policing Communities at Home and Abroad. Center for British Studies. University of California Berkeley. Funded by The Mellon Foundation. 12 December 2014

    Campbell, Elaine (2014) `Criminology as a politics of aesthetics’, Invited speaker. 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Charles University, Prague. 10-13 September 2014

    Campbell, Elaine (2014) `Policing without boundaries’. Sub-plenary paper. Power, Culture and Social Framing, The Final Annual CRESC Conference, University of Manchester, 3-5 September 2014

    Campbell, Elaine (2014) `Rhythms of death: assembling the homicidal city' Invited speaker: Negotiating Morbid Spaces Symposium. University of York, UK, 8 January 2014

    Campbell, Elane (2012) `Call me old-fashioned: "grey" crime drama and the cultural politics of nostalgia', 4th International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Conference, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, US, 17-19 September 2012

    Campbell, Elaine (2012) `Creative differences: the making of ethical worlds', Culture, Communication and Creativity, ESA Mid-term Conference,  Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 5-8 September 2012

    Campbell, Elaine and Huang, Siyuan (2012) `Chinese whispers: an aesthetics of deliberative authoritarianism', Creating Publics, Creating Democracies Conference, Goldsmiths College, London, UK, 18-19 June 2012

    Campbell, Elaine (2012) `Through the looking glass: justice, aesthetics and Chinese news media',  Global Perspectives on Justice, Security and Human Rights Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York, US, 6-9 June 2012 

    Campbell, Elaine (2012) `Transgression, affect and performance: choreographing a politics of urban space', School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Seminar Series, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, 29 February 2012 

    Campbell, Elaine (2011) `Ranciere, a right to a fair trial and an aesthetics of difference', Intersections of Law and Culture Conference 2011, Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland. 23-25 September 2011

    Campbell, Elaine (2011) `Encountering monsters at the boundaries of culture: excess, transgression and the limit-experience’. Rethinking the Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society Conference, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. 1-3 July 2011

    Campbell, Elaine (2011) ‘Law, literary culture(s) and a politics of aesthetics’. ‘The Letter of the Law: Law Matters in Language and Literature’, 8th International Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English. University of Athens. Greece. 5-8 May 2011

    Campbell, Elaine (2011) ‘Spaces of desecration: performing the city and choreographing the urban’.  Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. Osaka, Japan. 23-25 March 2011

    Campbell, Elaine (2011) ‘The transgressive edge of everyday life: performing the city; choreographing the urban’. Abstract accepted for presentation to the 1st Global Conference on Urban Popcultures. Prague. Czech Republic, 5-8 March 2011

    Campbell, Elaine (2010) ‘The poetics of international human rights: multiculturalism as dramaturgy    and theatre’. Third International Conference on Multicultural Discourses. Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China, 27-29 August 2010  

    Campbell, Elaine (2010) ‘Law, popular culture(s) and the politics of aesthetics’. XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Research Committee 12 [Sociology of Law] Panel/Session 7, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July 2010

    Campbell Elaine (2010) ‘Catastrophic crime(s) and the reinvention of national identities’. Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and Deviance Conference. University of Leeds, UK, 30 March 2010

    Campbell, E (2009) ‘Reading-writing autopsy: a dirty theory of the science of death’. Invited speaker at Technology, Death and the Cultural Imagination Seminar. Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London, UK, 30 October 2009

    Campbell, E (2009) ‘Public sphere as assemblage: assembling political cultures’. 9th European Sociological Association Conference. University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2-5 September 2009

    Campbell E (2009) ‘Collective memory, assemblage and catastrophic events’. 9th European Sociological Association Conference. University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2-5 September 2009

    Campbell E (2009) ‘Dreadful landscapes: stalking as choreography’. International Visual Sociology Association Conference. (IVSA 2009). University of Carlisle, UK, 22-24 July 2009

    Campbell E (2009) Chair of Panel ‘Exploring gendered dimensions of place’, organised for the International Visual Sociology Association Conference. (IVSA 2009). University of Carlisle, UK, 22-24 July 2009

    Campbell E (2009) `Justice in the risk society: Barthes goes to Hollywood’. Managing the Social Impacts of Change from a Risk Perspective. Conference funded by CASS/RCUK/ESRC, Beijing Normal University, People’s Republic of China. 15-17 April 2009.

    Campbell, E (2008) `Empowering the citizens by putting people in their place’. Rethinking Confidence in the Criminal Justice System. Conference funded by an ESRC Impact Grant. Newcastle University, UK, 13 November 2008

    Campbell, E (2008) `The counterpublic sphere of comedy: a Bakhtinian perspective’. 8th European Society of Criminology Conference. Conference Theme: on Criminology and the Public Sphere, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2-5 September 2008

    Campbell, E (2008) `A carnival of justice’ International Conference on Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, to be held at the University of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9-12 June 2008

    Campbell, E (2008) `Powers of life and death in the governance of affect’ Fifth Annual Social Theory Forum, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, 16-17 April 2008

    Campbell E (2008) Chair of Panel `Media and the criminal justice system: mutual pressures and interdependencies:’ organised for the Justice, Media and Public Conference. Keele University, UK, 28-29 February 2008

    Campbell E (2007) Chair of Panel `Understanding Communities’ organised for the European Society of Criminology Conference. University of Bologna, Italy, 26 to 29 September 2007

    Campbell E (2007) `Public Confidence as an Emotionality of Rule’ Stockholm Criminology Symposium. University of Stockholm, Sweden, 4 to 6 June 2007

      

    Research roles

    Convenor of Visualities Research Group, Newcastle University since 2011 

    Founder and Convenor of the Critical Visual and Discourse Research Cluster, Newcastle University, 2008-2010 (disbanded October 2010; relaunched as the Visualities Research Group, January 2011)

     

    Postgraduate Supervision

    I am interested in supervising innovative proposals in all aspects of cultural and critical criminology, and which look across disciplinary boundaries.  I especially welcome applications in the following areas: i) Cultural perspectives on criminological topics, including questions of emotionality and aesthetics; ii) socio-spatial understandings of criminality and policing; iii) discourse, visual and media analysis; iv) the cultural politics of crime and punishment, law and governance, surveillance and risk; and v) work which develops a post-critique of modernist criminological theorizing and research.

    I am currently supervising 1 PhD research theses: 

    Florrie Darling - The social and cultural value of participatory arts for children and young people (ESRC 3) - with Professor Janice McLaughlin


    Doctorates recently completed:

    Emma Seddon (2020) Between professionalism and precarity: Assembling professional identities in the translation industry. (ESRC-funded) with Dr Lisa Garforth;

    Yang Li (2018) Screening Tibet from three perspectives: an exploration of representations of Tibet in Western, Tibetan and Han Chinese films (self-funded) - with Dr Sabrina Yu (SML);

    Kirsty Blewitt (2018) `I hurt her. I hurt her bad. She's dead': An interdisciplinary exploration of interactions between the state and the individual in legal settings (self-funded) - with Dr Peter Sercombe (SECLS);

    Aliraza Javaid (2017) - Male Rape, Masculinities, and Sexualities: Understanding, Policing, and Overcoming Male Sexual Victimisation (self-funded) - with Professor Peter Hopkins (Geography/GPS);

    Will McGovern (2017) - Socio-cultural explorations of self-help unstructured programmes for individuals with significant substance related concerns (NHS-funded) - with Professor Robert Hollands;

    Clare Fearon (2015) - Disputes of offence: The discursive construction of political correctness. (self-funded) - with Professor William Outhwaite;

    Charlie Bramley (2015) - Too important to be left to the musicians: un-musical activism and improvised fiction. (AHRC 1 3) - with Dr Will Edmondes (SACS);

    Pete Steggals (2013) Making sense of self-harm: exploring the cultural meaning and social context of non-suicidal self-injury. (ESRC 1 3) - with Dr Steph Lawler;

    Liz Turner (2012) Reimagining criminology's public role: an inquiry into the relationship between criminological expertise and the democratic public sphere (NCJB/ESRC funded) - with Dr Ruth Graham;

    Danna-Mechelle Lewis (2011) The risk factor: An exploratory study into the assessment of risk within criminal justice practice (CSV-funded) - with Dr Ruth Graham;

    Ruth McGovern (2010) A non-traditional ethnography of crack-cocaine users in the North East of England (self-funded) - with Professor Robert Hollands;

    Rachela Colosi (2009) Undressing the moves: an ethnography of the contemporary lap-dancer (ESRC 1 3) - with Professor Robert Hollands;


    Industrial Relevance

    • creative industries
    • justice activism
    • rights movements
    • law reform
    • penal reform
    • public understandings of criminal justice
    • political and visual cultures of crime, criminality and justice





































































































































































    Teaching

    Nominated for a Newcastle Teaching Excellence Award, Innovative Teaching Methods, 2016

    Nominated for a Newcastle Teaching Excellence Award, Innovative Teaching Methods, 2014

    Nominated for a Newcastle Teaching Excellence Award, Taught Supervisor, 2013

    Nominated for the Vice Chancellor's Distinguished Teacher Award, 2012 

    Undergraduate Teaching

    SOC1033: Understanding Everyday Life
    SOC2070: Research proposals in Cultural Criminology and Visual Methodologies
    SOC2074: Spectacle, Image and Media: The Sociology of Visual Cultures
    SOC2086: Postdisciplinary Criminology

    Postgraduate Teaching

    SOC8048: Visual Sociologies

    Publications