Sociology and Criminology staff
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Dr Melindy Duffus
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Melindy鈥檚 main area of research focuses on the support within the community to encourage desistance from offending and substance misuse. Additionally, Melindy is a prison befriender for the New Bridge Foundation, a befriending service between members of the public and people in prison.
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Dr Shey Fyffe
Lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies
Shey聽Fyffe has taught across a range of undergraduate Sociology and Black studies modules at BCU since 2016. 聽
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Dr Birgan Gokmenoglu
Lecturer in Sociology
Birgan (she/her) is a political ethnographer and sociologist working on time and futurity, social movements, radical grassroots politics, and experiments in alternative forms of democracy. She holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE), and has taught at the LSE (London, UK), Bogazici...
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Dr Arantza Gomez Arana
Visiting Fellow
Arantza enjoys engaging in academic discussions with undergraduate, postgraduate students and colleagues, through the development of critical thinking in Social Sciences.
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O鈥橞ryan Grandison
Senior Lecturer in Policing
O鈥橞ryan Grandison joined BCU in April 2024 as a lecturer on the BSc (Hons) Professional Policing degree. He has over 30 years鈥� experience as an operational police officer. He spent time in a number of policing teams including response policing, neighbourhood or community policing, Central Traffic and Motorway Departments, the...
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Dr Lily Hamourtziadou
Senior Lecturer and Course Lead in MA International Relations and Security
For the last 20 years Dr Lily Hamourtziadou聽 has researched and taught international politics and security. She is also principal researcher for Iraq Body Count, a leading NGO, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Nawaz Hanif
Lecturer in Criminology and Policing
Nawaz joined BCU in April 2024 from the Institute of Policing at Staffordshire University where he taught the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship program to officers from all Midlands police forces. Prior to lecturing at Staffs, Nawaz spent almost a decade at West Midlands Police as a specialist Investigator in their...
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Max Hart
Law, Social and Criminal Justice
After completing his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Criminology at 探花直播 (BCU), Max took up the position of research assistant in the Social Research and Evaluation Unit at BCU. During this time, he also worked as a visiting lecturer in Criminology at Staffordshire University. In 2019 Max took...
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Dr Gary Hazeldine
Associate Professor of Sociology
Dr Gary Hazeldine聽 has taught Sociology at 探花直播 since 2007. Prior to this he taught at the University of Brighton, the University of Sussex, and Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Kevin Hoffin
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Kevin Hoffin achieved his MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice, his BA in Law w/ Criminology and his PGCE at Keele University, Staffordshire.聽 Kevin was nominated for an Excellence in Teaching (Early Career) Award at Keele University 2016/2017.