Nicola Wake
Senior Lecturer in Law & Risk and Vulnerability research coordinator for the Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies, Northumbria University, UK
Nicola Wake is Senior Lecturer in Law and Risk and Vulnerability research coordinator for the Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies at Northumbria University. Nicola’s research focus is on vulnerable offenders within the criminal justice system, and specifically those who have killed an abuser in response to long-term family violence. Nicola has organised and chaired national and international research conferences and events. She has published extensively and presented on the law relating to vulnerable offenders at both national and international level. Nicola is a member of the executive committee and council for the Society of Legal Scholars, and is a former Ross Parson's Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney. Nicola is also co-editor of Maxwell (formerly Ashgate Publishing) 'Substantive Issues in Criminal Law' series (2010-2020).
Forthcoming Events
British Engagement Programme for Displaced Children - Part II
British Engagement Programme for Displaced Children seeks to enhance understanding of British values, culture, and history through a professionally developed non-formal curricula designed for displaced (i.e. asylum seekers, forced migrants) families' children, aged between 10-16.
Latest News
A Tide of Humanity: Discussing the Migrant Crisis
On 27 November 2015, LCSS has successfully organised a roundtable at SOAS to discuss the recent Migrant Crisis
LCSS Training Programme on Ottoman and Archival Studies, London, 3rd-7th August 2015
In August 2015, LCSS has successfully conducted the Training Programme on Ottoman and Archival Studies, which took place in London and Oxford.
LCSS Summer School 2015
We are excited to conduct LCSS's first summer school and to host a lovely group of students from Azerbaijan. 20 July - 14 August
International Conference on Gender and Education: Critical Issues, Policy and Practice: Re-Gendering Education
LCSS’s growing gender platform continued its international conference series in Bloomington, IN, United States on International Conference on Gender and Education
Blog
“Insider” and/or “outsider: Anthropologists’ constant status negotiation”
Feray J. Baskin - PhD Candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
In the Name of the Nation: the burqa ban, French values and Islam
Daniela Alaattinoğlu - PhD Candidate, European University Institute - Florence, Italy
On Welfare Reform with Baroness Molly Meacher
Interview by Ozdemir Ahmet - On Thursday 4 April 2013 An interview was conducted with Baroness Molly Meacher at the House of Lords where questions were put out to her with regards to the welfare reforms introduced by the coalition.