a. Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, Diaspora, Migration and Citizenship

b. Race, Community Policing, and Crime

c. Social Exclusion and Social Gerontology

d. Education and Ethnicity

e. Gender, Sexuality and Law

c. Religion, Identity, Transnationalism and Community

FEMM Staff, Research Interests, and Selected Recent Publications.

Christopher Brewin was educated at Grenoble, Oxford and Harvard. He is presently a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. For ten years he wrote the Annual Review of the European Communities for the Journal of Common Market Studies. He is the author of The European Union And Cyprus (2000), and has a Leverhulme Fellowship to work on ‘The European Union and Turkey’. Recent articles include (2000a)'The image of the Turk in Europe' in: N. Berçoglu (Ed.) The image of the Turk in Europe from the Declaration of the Republic in 1923 to the 1990s (Istanbul; the Isis Press) pp. 93-106. 'A changing Turkey: Europe's dilemma' Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans ,5:2 , August 2003 pgs 137-147 (with Bülent Gökay as joint editors)'Introduction' special issue of the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans ,5:2, August 2003, pgs 133-135 'Changing concepts of interest and the Annan plan for Cyprus' The European Yearbook of Minority Issues (2000b) 'European identity' in: J.Andrew, M. Crook & M. Waller (Eds) Why Europe: problems of culture and identity (London: Macmillan) pp. 55-74. Joint editor, with Bülent Gökay, of special issue of Journal of Southeast Europe and the Balkans, 5:2 August.

Miriam David was until 2004 Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Professor of Policy Studies in Education at Keele University. She directs the professional doctorate in education (Ed.D) at Keele that has two unique strands, namely in evidence-based policy and practice (EPP) and gender and education management (GEM). She has been an academic for over 35 years and worked at the Universities of London, Bristol and South Bank, where she directed the Social Sciences Research Centre of excellence and research across the university. She served on HEFCE’s RAE panel for Sociology in 1992 and 1996. Currently she is chair of the committee of Academicians of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of Council of the Academy, an executive member of the UK Council for Graduate Education and co-chair of the Gender & Education Association. She has an international reputation for her research on families, gender, education and public policies. Her publications include Personal & Political: Feminisms, Sociology & Family Lives (2003, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books); (with Amy Stambach) ‘Feminist Theory and Educational Policy How Gender Has Been Involved in Family-School Choice Debates’ in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society (in press); and (with Madeleine Arnot and Gaby Weiner) (1999) Closing the Gender Gap: Post-war Education & Social Change (Cambridge: Polity Press).

William Dixon is a Lecturer in the Department of Criminology. He was attached to the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) between 1999 and 2001 during which time he published a number of articles on crime and criminal justice in post-apartheid South Africa. Since coming to Keele, he has continued to pursue a research interest in South Africa and a collection of essays, Justice Gained? Crime and Crime Control in South Africa's Transition, edited jointly with a former colleague at UCT was published by Willan in 2004. Together with David Gadd, he recently obtained a grant from the ESRC for a research project on 'Context and Motive in the Perpetration of Racially Motivated Violence and Harassment'. Work started on the project in June and will continue until mid-2005.

Ruth Fletcher LLB MA LLM DJur, Lecturer in Law, Keele University Ruth's research interests lie in feminist, post-colonial and legal theory, the regulation of gender and sexuality, and healthcare law and ethics. She is a member of the Gender, Sexuality and Law Group, has co-ordinated a Leverhulme funded Exchange between Keele, the Centre for Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi and the Centre for Interdiscipliinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds, and will be involved in the new AHRB funded Centre in Law, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Ruth is currently working on a book entitled: Legal Forms and Reproductive Norms: The Cultural Role of Abortion Law and is about to begin ESRC funded research into pro-choice networking between Britain and Ireland. Her most recent publications are: 'Legal Forms and Reproductive Norms' (2003) 12 Social and Legal Studies 217-241; 'Feminist Legal Theory', in R. Banakar and M. Travers (eds.) Introduction to Law and Social Theory (Oxford: Hart, 2002) 135-154 and 'Post-colonial Fragments: Representations of Abortion in Irish Law and Politics' (2001) 28 Journal of Law and Society 568-589.

Ronald Frankenberg, is Professor Emeritus and a Fellow of the University of Keele. He was founder and developer of the Department of Sociology in 1969. Whilst in posts at Keele and Brunel Professor Frankenberg consulted on development projects involving migration problems in Gujarat (Dfid) and Argentina (UBA) He was for many years an Associate of IDS Sussex. He. His first research for his PhD focused on a specific village unwillingly participating in the trend to economically driven, spasmodic and permanent migration away from North Wales and the gender and micropolitical implications for those who left as well as those who remained. He later worked in South Wales on an SSRC project about the social changes brought about by the expansion of the Steel Industry, where the solution of some of problems involved policy makers’ and local inhabitants’ acceptance of the reality that the Irish temporary migrants imported to build the works provided. Before he moved to Keele, Ronnie Frakenberg was seconded to The University of Zambia as its first Professor of Sociology, where he carried out a major research project on Paths to Medical Care in Lusaka, Zambia.

David Gadd has been a lecturer in the Dept of Criminology since January 2000. Before then, David’s ESRC funded doctoral work helped him establish his expertise in in-depth interview based research with offenders. This research focused on issues of masculinity and the psychosocial dimensions of change. David’s most recent research project is funded by the ESRC (RES-000-23-0171) and explores the life-histories of the perpetrators of racist violence and their relation to the changing socio-economic context of the Staffordshire Potteries. Dr Gadd has also led a major Scottish Executive Research project into Domestic Abuse Against Men in Scotland, and was involved in conducting the data analysis on a recent ESRC funded ‘Fear of Crime’ research project, led by Dr Stephen Farrall. David Gadd is the current convenor of the FEMM seminar programme.

Ruby Greene is Lecturer at the Sir David Owen Population Centre, Centre for Health Planning and Management, and Programme Director of the MSc in Reproductive Health Management and in Population and Development. She is a trained in Psychiatric nursing and midwifery with certificates in Social Work and Adolescent Fertility Management from the University of the West Indies and an MA in Population Studies from Exeter University. Her research interest is in HIV/AIDS with particular attention to gender and culture in sex education. She is currently undertaking research into sex education in the Caribbean.

Steve French is Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations. His main research interest is in racism and racial discrimination at the work place. He recently completed a comparative research project - with Carola Weissmeyer (Keele) and Ursula Birsl and Renate Bitzen (Goettingen University) - into racism and racial discrimination in the workplace based on case studies of one British and one German car plant. The project combined quantitative and qualitative research methods. The aim of the work is to link issues of racism and racial discrimination at work to industrial relations practices, focusing in particular how trade unions can collectively address issues of direct and indirect racial discrimination and workers awareness and perceptions of potential discriminatory practice. A further interesting development arising from the project is the issue of comparison, reflecting the problems of different legal status of ‘minorities’ and the different focus of academics and practitioners on issues of ‘discrimination’ in Britain and Germany as well as issues of access and the sensitivity of research in this area. A second area of research interest is in provision of minority language provision for asylum seekers and refugees. Dr. French worked with Richard Pugh and others at Keele on the provision of minority language support to asylum seekers and refugees in Stoke-on-Trent and north Staffordshire. The project was initiated by the North Staffs Asylum Seeker and Refugee Support Group and funded by the Ashden Trust with the aim of producing a report into the feasibility of setting up a local translation and interpreting service. The research was qualitative and involved interviewing a selection of local service providers and asylum seekers and refugees to examine the extent and quality of translation and interpreting provision. The final report was completed last year and is available on the Keele in Business website He current planning research racism and xenophobia in Stoke on Trent, in particular the recent electoral success of the BNP, focusing in particular on the economic (materialist) origins of racism (i.e. issues of employment, migration into and out of the city, social exclusion and deprivation). The aim is to build upon a talk given at a KERC seminar on the outcomes of the mayoral election.

Ian Loader is a Professor in the Department of Criminology. His principal research interests in the fields of contemporary transformations in policing and security, and public sensibilities towards order, crime and justice. His interest in each of these themes concerns the prospects in a globalized, multi-cultural world of finding more deliberative, inclusive ways of thinking about, and producing, order and security. He is currently supervising two local projects on questions of diversity - one on 'Leadership in the Pakistani community in Stoke and Manchester’, funded by the ESRC jointly with the ODPM, and one addressing the issue of 'Police cultures in a diverse society'. His latest book (co-authored with Aogan Mulcahy) is Policing and the Condition of England; Memory, Politics and Culture Oxford UP, 2003).

Susanne Karstedt is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology, Keele University since 2000. Before she came to Keele she held positions as Director of the Research Programme on Social Capital, and as Assistant Professor and Principal Researcher at the University of Bielefeld, and the University of Hamburg. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Temple University, Philadelphia, the Bar Foundation, Chicago, and the Australian National University, Canberra. Present grants: Volkswagen Foundation on Middle class crime. Present Research Grants include: Volkswagen Foundation on middle class crime; Marie Curie Training Site ‘The Governance of Urban Safety’; with S Farrall: Module in the European Social Survey on consumer crime and victimization; Relevant Publications include: ‘Beutegesellschaft: Zur moralischen Oekonomie moderner Marktgesellschaften‘(Predatory Society: On the moral economy of modern market societies), Soziale Probleme, 10, 1999; ‘Legacies of a Culture of Inequality: The Janus-Face of Crime in Post-Communist Countries‘, special issue of Crime, Law & Social Change, 2002 forthcoming; ‘Die moralische Staerke schwacher Bindungen: Individualismus und Gewalt im Kulturvergleich (The Moral Strength of Weak Ties: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Individualism and Violence). ‘Elite Deviance and the Demoralization of Society: The Impact of Elite Crimes on Social Codes of Order’, European Yearbook of the Sociology of Law ed. by A. Febrajo, V. Olgiati & D. Nelken). Milano: Giuffre Es., 2001; ‘Comparing Cultures, Comparing Crime: Challenges, Prospects and Problems for a Global Criminology. Crime, Law & Social Change 36, 2001; ‘Social Transformation and Crime: A Crisis of Deregulation’ in: Czarnota, A. & Krygier, M. (Eds.): Rule of Law after Communism, Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1999; ‘Knights of Crime. The Success of "Pre-Modern" Structures in the Illegal Economy’ in: Karstedt, S. & Bussmann, K.-D. (Eds.): Social Dynamics of Crime and Control: New Theories for a World in Transition, 53-68. Oxford: Hart, 2000; ‘Frühe NSDAP-Mitglieder 1923-1933 - Junge Rechte 1980-1994: Eine biographische Analyse zweier Generationen deutscher Rechtsextremisten (Early Nazis 1923-1933 - Young Right-Wing Extremists 1980-1994: A Biographical Analysis of Two Generations of German Right-Wing Extremists)’.

Jane Krishnadas is a Lecturer in the Department of Law. Her research focuses on the role of rights in the reconstruction process following the Maharahstra earthquake in India in 1993 where she lived and worked for four years. The work was with local village groups to facilitate their own reconstruction cf. to the sweeping reconstruction process launched by the World Bank and State government. Within the villages she worked most closely with women, as their progressive and alternative discourses on reconstruction were the most marginalized from the dominant ‘modern’ reconstruction process and today this has strongly informed and developed a feminist and subaltern critique of development, international law/ rights & an insight to the processes of globalisation and desire to reconstruct this mythical dominant perspective. Jane is the module leader of the third year options International Law of Human Rights, and International law and Globalisations, taught from a feminist and ‘Southern/two-third world perspective. She is also the 2003/4 coordinator for the Faculty Annual Research Series on Alternative Globalisations, which is running an exciting series of public lectures and workshops. She is host to the Commonwealth Professional Fellowship Scheme which includes activists working on Caste and Communalism, Indigenous people’s struggle re mining and Prison Reform (India), and co-ordinator of Gender, Sexuality and Law fellowship, which hosts visiting scholars from Australia,US and India. 

David Maxwell is a Senior Lecturer in International History, and an expert on the social history of African religions. He spent five years researching Southern Africa, principally in Zimbabwe. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Audrey Richards Prize for Best African Studies Thesis 1994-96 by the African Studies Association, UK. His books include Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People c.1870s-1990s, Praeger, Connecticut, 1999. and Christianity and the African Imagination. E.J.Brill, Leiden [edited with Ingrid Lawrie] (2002). He has secured grants and awards from the ESRC; the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; and the Rockefeller Foundation. These have supported the research and writing of his second major monograph African Gifts of the Spirit which is a study of Southern African Pentecostalism and the rise of the global born-again movement. He has published widely in international journals: The Journal of African History; Africa; The Journal of Southern African Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and African Affairs. He is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa (JRA), the premier journal in its field. He was the Vice-Chairman of the Britain-Zimbabwe Society. Recent publications include: (ed.) Christianity and the African Imagination. Essays in Honour of Adrian Hastings E.J.Brill, Leiden [with Ingrid Lawrie] 2002, xii, 421pp. ‘Post-colonial Africa’ in H. McLeod (ed.) The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 9, World Christianities c.1914-c.2000 , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming ). ‘Anti-Colonialism & Decolonisation’ in Norman Etherington ed.) Missions and Empire, The Oxford History of the British Empire (vol.6) Oxford, Oxford University Press, (forthcoming).

Matthew Millings has been a temporary lecturer in the Department of Criminology since September 2004, and is in his third year of a Staffordshire Police funded PhD studentship entitled 'Towards an Understanding of Policing Diversity: A critical analysis of the difficulties and challenges of policing ethnically diverse, culturally mixed and plural polities'. Matthew's on-going doctoral study seeks specifically to explore the relationships between the police and young members of Staffordshire's black and minority ethnic populations and has seen him author and present findings into the experience and attitudes of young people towards the police from the Cobridge area of Stoke-on-Trent and Burton-upon-Trent. In addition to these reports Matthew has also evaluated the Stoke-wide detached youth work scheme - a project run by North Staffordshire Racial Equality Council in partnership with Stoke City Council and Staffordshire Police, designed specifically to address the youth service provision failings in engaging young members of the black and minority ethnic populations in the city. Matthew is currently in the process of designing a criminology third year special interest group entitled 'Policing, Race and Ethnicity' to be delivered at the start of 2005.

Jane Parish is Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Relations. She has carried out fieldwork in Ghana West, Africa looking at the relation between globalisation and the spread of anti-witchcraft cults, and in Liverpool. Witchcraft discourses thrive as moral commentaries in the postcolonial state whilst, among West African migrants in Europe, have also become a way of theorizing individual insecurities and fears about wealth and inequality in an increasingly opaque world. She has published a number of articles on the global appeal of West African anti-witchcraft shrines in peer-reviewed journals, including JRAI, Africa and Journal of African Studies. More recently, she has carried out fieldwork among West Africans in Liverpool and has written on witchcraft fears among Sierra Leonean public sector workers and examined anxieties surrounding economic accumulation among Ghanaian roulette players. Her main publications are: The Age of Anxiety: Conspiracy Theory and the Human Sciences, coedited with Martin Parker (Blackwell, 2001); ‘The dynamics of witchcraft and indigenous shrines among the Akan’, Africa (1999) 69, 3: 333-58

Chris Phillipson has held the post of Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology at the University of Keele since 1988. He is Pro-Vice Chancellor (Learning and Academic Development) for the University. Previously he was Dean of Postgraduate Affairs and Dean of Research (Faculty of Social Sciences). He has a specialist interest in the sociology and social policy of family life in old age, and has researched and published extensively in that area. He was Chair of the editorial board of Ageing and Society, and has served on the executive of the British Society of Gerontology, and the British Association for Service to the Elderly. He is a member of Age Concern England's Training Advisory Committee. He has been a visiting professor to universities in Japan and the USA. He was elected as a member of the Academy of Learned Societies of the Social Sciences in 2000. He is President-elect of the British Society of Gerontology. His publications include: Capitalism and the Construction of Old Age, (1982), Macmillan Books; Ageing and Social Policy, (1986), (co-edited), Gower; The Sociology of Old Age, (1995), (co-authored) Open University Press; Reconstructing Old Age (1998), Sage; The Family and Community Life of Older People (2001) (co-authored) Routledge; Transitions from work to retirement: Developing a new social contract (2002) The Policy Press, Bristol; Women in Transition: A study of the Experiences of Bangladeshi Women Living in Tower Hamlets (2003) (co-authored) Policy Press, Bristol. Estes, C., Biggs, S. and Phillipson, C. (November 2003) Social Theory, Social Policy and Old Age: A Critical Introduction, Open University Press.

Richard Pugh is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the School of Social Relations, having worked as a practitioner in both the UK and the USA, and as an academic for the Open University and the North East Wales Institute. His main research interests are minority language practice and policy in public services, child protection, and rurality. He has published extensively in these fields. He is a sceptical critic of globalisation theses, and also of some postmodern positions and their disempowering political consequences. He maintains extensive links with academics and practitioners overseas and has been a visiting lecturer at both York University and the University of Toronto in Canada. His recent work on rural social work have created considerable interest and resulted in many invitations to speak/write/collaborate at home and abroad, most recently from the National Probation Service Directorate at the Home Office and from the University of South Australia. He is currently supervising research into minority language provision within social service departments, family group conferencing, and is about to commence a study on racist incidents within a local authority social services department.

Thomas Scharf completed his undergraduate studies in German and Politics at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and obtained his doctorate in political science from Aston University. He is currently Reader in Social Gerontology in the School of Social Relations. His research interests encompass social gerontology, social policy and political science. Much of this research has been of a comparative nature, focusing upon European social and political developments. Thomas Scharf’s most recent book is Ageing and Ageing Policy in Germany (1998), the first comprehensive English Language study to examine the position of older people in contemporary German society. He recently completed a research project supported by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Growing Older Programme. This addresses issues relating to social exclusion and quality of life of older people living in some of England’s most deprived urban neighbourhoods. A summary of this work has recently been published by Help the Aged. He is also part of a European network of researchers investigating issues relating to adult well-being. Some Recent Publications include: Growing Older in Socially Deprived Areas: Social Exclusion in Later Life (2002) London, Help the Aged (with C. Phillipson, A. Smith & P. Kingston)‘Older people in deprived areas: perceptions of the neighbourhood’. Quality in Ageing 3, 2, 2002, 11-21. (with C. Phillipson, A. Smith & P. Kingston); ‘Ageing and Intergenerational Relationships in Rural Germany’, Ageing and Society, 21,5,2001,547-566. ‘Social Gerontology in Germany: Historical Trends and Recent Developments’, Ageing and Society, 21, 4, 2001, 489-505. ‘Cross-national empirical research in gerontology: The OPERA experience’, Education and Ageing, 15, 3, 2000, 379-397. (with G.C. Wenger). Ageing and Ageing Policy in Germany (1998) Oxford/Providence: Berg.

Farzana Shain is a Senior Lecturer in the Education Department. Before taking up a lectureship at Keele in October 1999, she had worked in Further Education and also for Victim Support in Camden. Her current research projects include 'Inner City Lives: Muslim youth perceptions and urban practices in the UK' with Bulent Gokay. She has also recently worked on a project on teacher trade union activism from a social movement perspective with Ken Jones. Past research projects include the ESRC funded 'Changing Teaching and Managerial Cultures in Further Education' from which she has published a number of single and co-authored (with Denis Gleeson) articles. Her most recent publications include The Schooling and Identity of Asian Girls (Trentham Books: 2003) which is a reworking of her doctoral thesis.

Pnina Werbner is Professor of Social Anthropology at Keele University. She is the author of ‘The Manchester Migration Trilogy’ which includes The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis (Berg 1990 and 2002), Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims: the Public Performance of Transnational Identity Politics (James Currey, Oxford, and School of American Research, Santa Fe, 2002) and Pilgrims of Love: the Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult (Hurst Publishers, London and Indiana University Press, 2003). She has recently been visiting fellow in Australia, Sydney and Canberra and at the University of California, Irvine. She sits on the advisory panel of the Social Science Research Council, New York, working group on Muslims and Islam, and the Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship (Bristol University and University College London). Recent edited collections include Debating Cultural Hybridity and The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe, both co-edited with Tariq Modood (Zed Books 1997), Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults, co-edited with Helene Basu (Routledge 1998), Women, Citizenship and Difference, co-edited with Nira Yuval-Davis (Zed Books, 1999), and a special issue of the journal Diaspora on the topic of 'The Materiality of Diaspora,' co-edited with Karen Leonard (2000). She is the author of numerous articles and chapters in professional journals and books. Her fieldwork has included research in Britain, Pakistan, and Botswana where she studied ‘Women and the Changing Public Sphere’ in 2000-2001. She is co-editor of the 'Postcolonial Encounters' series published by Zed Books.