Professor Geraldine Lee-Treweek
For updated information about my work, please see either my Linked In account or my Birmingham City University page at - https://www.bcu.ac.uk/social-sciences/about-us/staff/criminology-and-sociology/geraldine-lee-treweek
I no longer update my academia page. Thanks, Geraldine :)
I was awarded my doctorate in Sociology in 1994 from Plymouth University for a thesis on how care discourse and practices in nursing and residential care can become corrupted and abusive. More recently I have focused upon migration, community studies, the sociology of abuse, discrimination against vulnerable groups, particularly refugees and diverse Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Showman communities, the development of HE capacity building internationally and, most recently digital inclusion.
As a scholar activist, I believe in the role of education to change lives, society and the wider world, through using a range of tools, including knowledge exchange, enterprise, widening participation and academic inquiry to disrupt and challenge accepted convention, knowledge and power relationships. This imperative is especially important in a time of post-truth discourse and social media.
I have an established track record in HE leadership, having been Head of Department at two UK HEIs, achieving successful outcomes in terms of internal review, TEF, REF and portfolio development. I am currently Professor of KE and Social Justice at Birmingham City University and lead the Identities and Inequalities Research Centre. I also have expertise in enterprise and am supporting development towards KTP capture and contract research engagement across my School, wider Faculty and BCU as a whole. Key to this is working across disciplinary boundaries, bringing colleagues from different disciplines together and also reaching out to diverse stakeholders as collaborative partners. These are areas of work that I relish and I lead to encourage other colleagues to engage with.
My HE teaching, pedagogical and teaching management experience ranges from foundation teaching to successful doctoral supervision and all levels in diverse areas within Social Sciences and Health Studies. I was Head of Department of Social Sciences and Social Work at University of East London, Principal Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at MMU’s Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and previously worked in Sociology and Health Studies departments. These work experiences supported my development as a transdisciplinary scholar and leader, which today underpins my research/KE, leadership and pedagogical approaches.
My research profile demonstrates achievement across my career in publication, winning funding and leading teams in a host of knowledge exchange and research activities primarily around anti-racism, supporting excluded groups, such as youth refugees and migrants and Gypsy, Roma(ni), Traveller and Showman communities, HE capacity building in the Western Balkans and most recently the Sociology of AI and inclusion. I have been entered for the REF (and before this the RAE) since 1996, contributing to the academic strength and integrity of the institutions I was working within for each round (Stirling University, 1996, UoA Sociology; Open University 2001, UoA PAM; MMU 2008, UoA PAM; MMU 2014, UoA Social Work and Social Policy, Birmingham City University, UoA 21).
In the last decade I have developed expertise through KE EU funded strategic partnerships in the area of curriculum and practice development, internationally and in the UK, leading others to be able to apply successfully to develop their skills in this area. I have recently captured grants around mental health and wellbeing in HE, extremism on HE campuses and youth digital exclusion and supported/mentored grant capture on students and technostress. I have led as a UK partner and as a Consortium partner, projects on Balkans HEI development (TEACH, TEACHER and KEY - all EU projects), practitioner online learning development (PAPYRUS - EU), inquiry-based HE learning (REFLECT LAB, EU project) and internationalisation of the curriculum (Skyping in the World, MMU core funding),. Further details of my research and KE can be seen on my BCU pages - web address above.
Phone: +44 077934122
I no longer update my academia page. Thanks, Geraldine :)
I was awarded my doctorate in Sociology in 1994 from Plymouth University for a thesis on how care discourse and practices in nursing and residential care can become corrupted and abusive. More recently I have focused upon migration, community studies, the sociology of abuse, discrimination against vulnerable groups, particularly refugees and diverse Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Showman communities, the development of HE capacity building internationally and, most recently digital inclusion.
As a scholar activist, I believe in the role of education to change lives, society and the wider world, through using a range of tools, including knowledge exchange, enterprise, widening participation and academic inquiry to disrupt and challenge accepted convention, knowledge and power relationships. This imperative is especially important in a time of post-truth discourse and social media.
I have an established track record in HE leadership, having been Head of Department at two UK HEIs, achieving successful outcomes in terms of internal review, TEF, REF and portfolio development. I am currently Professor of KE and Social Justice at Birmingham City University and lead the Identities and Inequalities Research Centre. I also have expertise in enterprise and am supporting development towards KTP capture and contract research engagement across my School, wider Faculty and BCU as a whole. Key to this is working across disciplinary boundaries, bringing colleagues from different disciplines together and also reaching out to diverse stakeholders as collaborative partners. These are areas of work that I relish and I lead to encourage other colleagues to engage with.
My HE teaching, pedagogical and teaching management experience ranges from foundation teaching to successful doctoral supervision and all levels in diverse areas within Social Sciences and Health Studies. I was Head of Department of Social Sciences and Social Work at University of East London, Principal Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at MMU’s Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and previously worked in Sociology and Health Studies departments. These work experiences supported my development as a transdisciplinary scholar and leader, which today underpins my research/KE, leadership and pedagogical approaches.
My research profile demonstrates achievement across my career in publication, winning funding and leading teams in a host of knowledge exchange and research activities primarily around anti-racism, supporting excluded groups, such as youth refugees and migrants and Gypsy, Roma(ni), Traveller and Showman communities, HE capacity building in the Western Balkans and most recently the Sociology of AI and inclusion. I have been entered for the REF (and before this the RAE) since 1996, contributing to the academic strength and integrity of the institutions I was working within for each round (Stirling University, 1996, UoA Sociology; Open University 2001, UoA PAM; MMU 2008, UoA PAM; MMU 2014, UoA Social Work and Social Policy, Birmingham City University, UoA 21).
In the last decade I have developed expertise through KE EU funded strategic partnerships in the area of curriculum and practice development, internationally and in the UK, leading others to be able to apply successfully to develop their skills in this area. I have recently captured grants around mental health and wellbeing in HE, extremism on HE campuses and youth digital exclusion and supported/mentored grant capture on students and technostress. I have led as a UK partner and as a Consortium partner, projects on Balkans HEI development (TEACH, TEACHER and KEY - all EU projects), practitioner online learning development (PAPYRUS - EU), inquiry-based HE learning (REFLECT LAB, EU project) and internationalisation of the curriculum (Skyping in the World, MMU core funding),. Further details of my research and KE can be seen on my BCU pages - web address above.
Phone: +44 077934122
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An original take on the ever-popular topic of the ethics of research, this pioneering book expands the common sense use of the term to encompass not just physical danger, but emotional, ethical and professional danger too, with the authors paying special attention to the gendered forms of danger implicit in the research process. From the physical danger of researching the night club 'bouncer' scene to the ethical dangers of participant observation in an old people's home, these international contributions provide researchers and students with thought provoking insights into the importance of a well chosen research design.
Papers by Professor Geraldine Lee-Treweek