Introduction
Introduction
The Power, Discourse and Harm Research Unit was established in 2015 and provides a network for colleagues who are engaged in research around the inter-relationship between: state/corporate power and state/corporate discourse; and an examination of their impacts through the lenses of zemiology (study of social harms) and agnotology (deliberate construction of social ignorance). The focus of the Unit is ‘institutional power’, or to use David Whyte’s (2009) definition, the “form of power transmitted through state institutions and private business organisations or companies”.
Members
Members
01695 657608
Alana.Barton@edgehill.ac.uk
01695 657610
Howard.Davis@edgehill.ac.uk
01695 657613
Helen.Elfleet@edgehill.ac.uk
01695 657622
Helen.Baker@edgehill.ac.uk
01695 657436
Rafe.McGregor@edgehill.ac.uk
Dr Agnieszka Martynowicz
Publications
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Agnieszka.Martynowicz@edgehill.ac.uk
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DaviesJT@edgehill.ac.uk
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Anita.Hobson@edgehill.ac.uk
Dr Clare Kinsella
Publications
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Clare.Kinsella@edgehill.ac.uk
01695 657441
Anna.Hopkins@edgehill.ac.uk
Events
Events
2018/2019
Power, Discourse and Harm Research Group Seminars
G4S and the South African Prison System
Wednesday 5th June at 2pm in B105
Ruth Hopkins, Investigative Journalist
The Violence of Austerity
Wednesday 27th February 2019
Dr. Vickie Cooper (Open University).
Research in Action
Research in Action
Members of the Power, Discourse and Harm Research Unit are involved in important and innovative research on a range of topics. Summaries of some of their work are available here.
Neo-liberalism and the Criminological Imagination
Disaster Crime and Crisis Management
The Prison and the Public
PhD Students
PhD Students
“Gender Responsivity in a Women’s Centre: Post-Release Experiences after the Corston Report”
Supervisors: Dr Alana Barton, Dr Eleanor Peters and Professor Alyson Brown
Helen.Elfleet@edgehill.ac.uk
Holly White
‘Policing the Neoliberal Crisis’, (awarded October 2017)
Supervisors: Dr. Howard Davis, Dr. Alana Barton and Professor John Diamond
H.White@chester.ac.uk
Contact
Contact
Dr Alana Barton
01695 657608
Alana.Barton@edgehill.ac.uk
Edge Hill University
Department of Law & Criminology
St Helens Road
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 4QP
United Kingdom