Research overview
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Prisons and Human Rights
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Crime and Popular Fiction
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Dr Rafe McGregor is a world-leading expert in the relationship between crime and popular fiction. He has published six books on the subject, beginning with Narrative Justice in 2018. His seventh is Reducing Political Violence: Narrative Accounts of Crime and Harm (Januar7 2026). From February 2021 to July 2026 Rafe has been an investigator on the Croatian Science Foundation’s Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art, which has received over €200,000 in funding.
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Crime and Popular Music
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Dr Eleanor Peters is a world-leading expert in the relationship between crime and popular music.
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Coercive Control Research
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Impact and evaluation
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Research
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Our researchers are addressing some of society’s most pressing problems today and providing expertise to develop solutions and enact change.
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Research Centres
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Find out more about our Research Centres
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About our work
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Discover the impactful research groups and projects conducted by the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University.
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The International Centre for Early Years Education (ICEYE)
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View members of the IDI Research Network
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Research and Knowledge Exchange
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The Faculty of Education is using an integrated research and knowledge exchange approach established through the five Faculty themes to implement our vision of 'working creatively with others to enhance life chances'.
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