Dr. John Coxhead

Phone: 07921 094686
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Location: Off campus – Derbyshire County Council Children and Younger Adults
Role: Honorary Research Fellow

Dr Coxhead is a Keele graduate, initially studying English and History combined with teacher training, who has worked in public services for the last twenty years. John returned to Keele to study criminology and later completed a doctorate at Derby, where he now supervises other doctoral students. Research and teaching interests are broad: from early intervention and prevention of offending, analysis of serious and organised crime, improving links between research and professional practice and social justice issues affecting Romany Gypsies, Irish Travellers and Roma.

John has carried out research for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), Home Office, Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Youth Justice Board (YJB).

He is twice winner of a Queen’s Award for innovation in policing, receiving a Yellow Rose Award for Human Rights by International Gypsy Traveller Affairs, and is Director of Research for the European Roma Law Enforcement Association (Budapest). John currently works as a Multi-Agency Team Manager, developing integrated analysis and early intervention and prevention for young people.

  • ‘Theory and Practice: The Thought of Coming Together’ Race Equality Teaching Vol. 22 No. 3,  2004
  •  ‘Have You Tried Talking to One?’ Race Equality Teaching Vol. 23 (2),  2005
  •  ‘A Better Road: Critical reflection on the need to improve work with Travellers’ Criminal Justice Management July 2004
  •  Moving Forward: How policing performance can be improved by liaison with Gypsy and Traveller communities Home Office (2005)
  •  The Last Bastion of Racism? Gypsies, Travellers and policing, Trentham (2007)
  •  Plural Policing and Public Consent Lambard (2009)
  •  ‘Restorative Justice’ Criminology Matters 1, 3-4, October 2009 (with Dr Heather Strang, University of Cambridge)
  •  ‘Prevention is better than cure’ Secondary Education No. 246 April 22 2010 (with Dr Sam Bishop)
  •  National Problem Profile of Traveller Serious and Organised Crime ACPO (2011)
  •  ‘Globalisation and transnational crime’ Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice SAGE Reference (forthcoming)

Dr Coxhead is currently working with the OSCE (Vienna) on the promotion of Pan European guidance on the policing of Roma and SOCA / Europol on international Roma migration.