Dr Paula Wilcox

Principal Lecturer

contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643487

Email: P.S.Wilcox@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

• Child to parent violence
• Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence/family violence
• Critical and cultural criminology
• Women offenders

Teaching

• Undergraduate and Postgraduate Criminology
• Undergraduate Dissertation Supervisor
• Masters in Criminology Dissertation Supervisor
• PhD Supervisor

Profile

• BSc (Hons) - First Class (Loughborough)
• MA Socio-Legal Studies (Sheffield)
• MA Women's Studies (Bradford)
• PhD Applied Social Science (Bradford)
• PG Cert. Teaching in Higher Education - Distinction Teaching

Biography

During the 1990's Paula was a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminological and Legal Research (University of Sheffield) working on crime reduction and community safety. Subsequently she was a Researcher at the Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations Research Unit (University of Bradford) on domestic violence. Paula's first degree was from the University of Loughborough and she has a Masters in Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Sheffield, a Masters in Women's Studies and a PhD in Applied Social Science both from the University of Bradford.

Dr Wilcox is Course Leader of the MA Criminology course, Deputy Chair of the Faculty of Health and Social Science Research Ethics and Governance Committed and Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton. She is an active researcher in the fields of domestic/family violence and most recently child to parent violence. She has been the research leader on ten funded research projects to date. She maintains contact and engages with grassroots activism and community research and was a Trustee of the Brighton Women's Centre from 2007 until 2012 where she was involved in a successful bid (£420,000) to the UK Ministry of Justice to set up the 'Inspire' community intervention project with women at risk of offending and women offenders. At the European level she is a member of the European Network on Gender and Violence and also the European Society for Criminology and participated in a panel on Parent Abuse at EuroCrim 2012 in Bilbao, Spain 12-15 September 2012. At the international level she has been active in the International Society for Criminology participating in a panel on the abuse of older women in Japan/UK at the 16th World Congress of ISC in Kobe, Japan, 5-9 August 2011. A founding member of the PARN (Parent Abuse Research Network) and the Crime, Resistance and Security (Criminology) Research Group at the University of Brighton. She has authored and co-authored over 20 scholarly articles and books. In 2006 she published a sole-authored book based on her doctoral research entitled Surviving Domestic Violence: Gender, Poverty and Agency.

Her current research is entitled: 'Responding to Child to Parent Violence (CPV)'. This is an EC DAPHNE III funded research project (Feb 2013 – Jan 2015, Euros 970,000). Child to Parent Violence (CPV) is a hidden social problem. This multi-agency research project aims to examine how a range of organisations in different countries across Europe are responding to it. The research partners are Brighton and Hove City Council, The National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland, the Instituto de Investigacion Polibienestar – Universitat de Valencia (UVEG), Spain,The National Association XXI Century Rhodopa Mountain Initiative, Bulgaria and Amal Municipality in Sweden.

The project will study child to parent violence from a violence against women perspective and provide a toolkit for practitioners on CPV The objectives are: (1) To take and build on previous learning in this area to enable a better pan-European understanding of CPV and how this fits with a violence against women approach. (2)To raise awareness of, and further develop, innovative change models that achieve healthy relationship change to resist violence against women. (3) To demonstrate how municipalities, educational institutions and statutory and voluntary agencies can work with young people on CPV. (4) To further develop and evaluate a small number of assessment tools and practitioner learning to increase the capacity and skills of front line workers to recognize and respond to CPV. (5) To identify and publicise a range of good practice actions that can be used to safeguard and improve the future outcomes for children and their families who are affected by CPV. (6) To develop, test and disseminate across Europe a toolkit which will increase the confidence, skills and capacity of front line workers to work with young people in particular but also with their parents.(7) To increase public awareness about the nature and extent of CPV.

Research supervision

Jeremy Price (started 2006)
'Journeys between the Philippines and England: A study of social workers' perspectives on the purpose and transferability of social work'
Second supervisor

Amanda Holt (2005-2008)
'Parent Narratives, parenting discourses and the youth justice system: a psychosocial analysis of parental accounts of their child's involvement in the youth justice system'
Director of Studies
Transfer panel MPhil to PhD successful June 2007

Lizzie Ward (2003-2006)
PhD student in School of Geography
'Feminism, New Labour and Lone Motherhood'
Second supervisor

Daren Britt (2001-2006)
PhD student in School of Applied Social Science
'Mapping and Conceptualising Childhood Sexual Abuse Treatment amongst Residential Adult Substance Dependency Programmmes'
Director of Studies
PhD 2006

Research leadership

2010
Chairing 'Cultural Criminology' strand at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, RC29 Deviance and Social Control, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July.

2009
Joint organiser of Symposium 'Subjectivity, Violence and Rights' at University of Brighton on 4 September 2009 with SuViR research group.

Research proposal with Lynda Measor and Nigel Sherrif to Joseph Rowntree Foundation: 'Alcohol, Young People, Locality: Researching from the Inside' submitted 30 September.

2007
Student Social Motivation and Transition
Research Fellow: Hilary McQueen, Educational Development Research Group

2007
Student Success and Retention in the School of Nursing and Midwifery
Research Officer: Paul O'Connell

2005 - 2007
Research Leader/Consultant
Hear Our Voices: Putting Domestic Violence Survivors at the Heart of Informing Service Delivery
Research Officer: Sarah Pemberton
Partnership: University and Brighton and Hove Domestic Violence Forum

2005 - 2008
International E-Communication Exchange
'Borderless classrooms: using a VLE discussion board to internationalise the curriculum' (with Helen Jones, Eileen Berrington and Maggie Sumner)

2002 - 2008
Research Consultant
SASS Student Retention Research Project (with Sandra Winn)
Joint supervision of Student Support and Guidance Tutor
Joint management of research project

1995 - 1997
Research Officer
Rotherham domestic violence repeat victimization project
University of Bradford/South Yorkshire Police Authority

1992 - 1993
Research Evaluator PT
Keighley Youth Education Project
University of Bradford/Home Office

1991 - 1992
Research Interviewer PT
Violence, abuse and the stress-coping process
University of Bradford/ESRC/Joseph Rowntree Foundation

1990 - 1991
Research Associate FT
Targeted crime reduction for local areas
University of Sheffield/Home Office

Recent publications

Wilcox, P 2012 'Women, Welfare and the Carceral State', with Denise Martin, In Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically Exploring the Work of Loic Wacquant, edited by Peter Squires and John Lea, Cambridge: Policy Press, 151-170.

Wilcox, P. 2012 'Is Parent Abuse a Form of Domestic Violence?' Social Policy and Society, 11(2) 277-288.

Wilcox, P. 2012 'Transition: Trauma or Transformation?' with Lynda Measor and Philip Frame, In Widening Participation in Higher Education: Casting the Net Wide? Edited by Tamsin Hinton-Smith, London, Palgrave.

Wilcox, P. 2011 'Abuse, Women Offenders and the Criminal Justice System', with Stella Vickers, Criminal Justice Matters 85(1), 24-25, September.

Wilcox, P. 2011 'Through the lens of gender: domestic abuse of older women in England and Japan', with Helen Jones, International Perspectives in Victimology, Vol 5(2) February,
http://shop.thepressatcsufresno.com/Through-the-Lens-of-Gender-Domestic-Abuse-Older-Women-Engl-Jpn-5255-62.htm.

Wilcox, P. 2008 'Constructing the victim and perpetrator of domestic violence', In W. Lusoli and M. Pritchard, M. (eds) Con_txts: Media, Representation and Society, Chester: Chester Academic Press

Wilcox, P. 2008 'Keeping women in the frame', Contribution to Welfare State 2008 website

Wilcox, P. 2008 'UK and US criminology students communicate online: Enhancing current learning and teaching practices', with Helen Jones, Maggie Sumner and Eileen Berrington, in Connections: Sharing the Learning Space Conference Proceedings, 13 July 2007, University of Brighton, Falmer Press.

Wilcox, P. 2007 'Domestic Violence: Women, citizenship and care' in Susan Balloch and Michael Hill (eds) Communities, Citizenship and Care: Research and Practice in a Changing Policy Context, Bristol: Policy Press.

Wilcox, P. 2007 'Reconceptualising student motivation: accounting for the social context beyond the classroom', with Sandra Winn, Dave Harley, and Sarah Pemberton, Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences LATISS, 3.2.

Wilcox, P. 2007 'Using texting to support student's transition to university', with Dave Harley, Sandra Winn and Sarah Pemberton, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Vol. 44(3): 229-241.

Wilcox, P. 2006 Surviving Domestic Violence: Gender, Poverty and Agency, London: Palgrave/Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-4113-0.

Wilcox, P. 2006 'Community safety, the family and domestic violence' in P. Squires (ed.) Community Safety for all? Bristol: Policy Press

Wilcox, P. 2006 'Communities, care and domestic violence', Critical Social Policy, Vol. 26(4): 722-747.

Wilcox, P. and Pemberton, S. 2006 Hear Our Voices: Domestic Violence Survivors Making a Difference, Report on the process and findings of research with survivors and service agencies in Brighton and Hove, August, Brighton: Health and Social Policy Research Centre.

Wilcox, P. 2005 'Beauty and the beast: Gendered and raced discourse in the news', Social and Legal Studies, Vol. 14 (4): 515-532.

Wilcox, P., Winn, S., Fyvie-Gauld, M. 2005 'It was nothing to do with the university, it was just the people: the role of social support in the first year experience of higher education' in Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 30 (6): 707-722.

Wilcox, P. 2000 "Me mother's bank and me nanan's, you know, support": Women who left domestic violence in England and issues of informal support, Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 23, No 1, pp. 1-13.

Wilcox, P. 2000 'Lone motherhood: the impact on living standards of leaving a violent relationship', Social Policy and Administration, Vol 34(2): 176-190.

Wilcox, P. 2000 Researching in the community: power and control in a study on domestic violence in England, Research in Community Sociology, Vol X, Fall, 141-164.

Wilcox, P. 1994 Targeted crime reduction for local areas, with Joanna Shapland and Paul Wiles, Home Office, Police Research Group, London.

Wilcox, P. 1998 The Rotherham Domestic Violence Repeat Victimisation Project: Evaluation Report, with Jalna Hanmer, S., Curteis, and S. Griffiths, Leeds: Research Centre on Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations, Leeds Metropolitan University.

Wilcox, P. 1993 The Keighley Youth Education Project: Evaluation Report, London : Home Office.

Wilcox, P. 1991 Targeted crime reduction, Final Report, with Joanna Shapland, Paul Wiles and Geoff Lindsay, Sheffield Centre for Criminological and Legal Research, University of Sheffield.

Recent conference presentations

2012 'Responding to Child to Parent Violence' paper with Michelle Pooley at EuroCrim 2012, Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Bilbao, 12-15 September.

2012 'Women Offenders, Abuse, Substance Misuse and Community Sentences', with Stella Vickers, workshop delivered at Brighton Oasis Project 'Women on the Edge' Conference, 29 May.

2012 Invited to UAB, Barcelona to deliver a mini-module to Masters and Doctoral Students of their Social Psychology Department on Examining Violence Against Women in Society 15-18 May.

2012 'Responding to Child to Parent Violence' paper delivered at the European Network on Gender and Violence, April 13-14, Rauischholzhausen Castle, Hesse, Germany.

2012 'Women Offenders, Abuse and Community Orders', with Stella Vickers delivered at the Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Practice: Diversity, Diversion, Desistance and Dignity Conference, University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, 10–12 January.

2011 'Domestic Elder Abuse' 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, 'Global Socio-Economic Crisis and Crime Control Policies', Kobe, Japan.

2011 'Women, Welfare and the Carceral State' with Denise Martin, at the York Deviancy Conference, 29 June – 1st July 2011.

2011 'Love, shame and women in abusive heterosexual relationships' at 'Affect, Subjectivity and Social Order/Disorder', University of Brighton, The 4th Conference of the Psychosocial Network, 10 – 11 June 2011.

2010 'Women, Welfare and the Carceral State' with Denise Martin, at Symposium on the Work of Loic Wacquant', University of Brighton, 13 September.

2010 'Rights, Subjectivity and Intimate Partner Gender Violence' at SuViR Symposium, University of Brighton, 25 June.

2010 Invited speaker 'Is parent abuse a form of domestic violence?' at symposium 'Parent Abuse: Building Knowledge Across Disciplines', 25-26 March, 2010 at Sheffield Hallam University.

2010 Invited speaker at symposium 'Parent abuse: building knowledge across disciplines', Thursday 25 March 1pm to Friday 26 March 1pm at Sheffield Hallam University.

2009 'Human Rights and Intimate Partner Violence', international conference 'Gendering Violence: Feminist Interventions in Contemporary Research', Uppsala University, Sweden, 2-4 December.

2009 'Transition: Transformation or Trauma?' 16th International Conference on Learning, University of Barcelona, 1-4 July with Lynda Measor and Philip Frame

2007 Invited speaker 'Students' lives today: It's learning but not as we knew it', with Stephanie Fleischer, at SWAP Conference, University Life Uncovered, University of Manchester, 9 November 2007.

2007 Invited speaker 'Surviving domestic violence', 4 June, University of Bristol.

2007 Invited speaker 'Student Retention in School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton', 6 March, University of Glasgow

March 2007 Joint Organiser of Seminar with Helen Jones, Eileen Berrington and Maggie Sumner: 'Communicating across boundaries: e-communication on criminal justice issues', speakers from UK and US partners and UK students.

2006 Invited speaker 'Beyond the classroom: International e-communication exchange', with Helen Jones and Maggie Sumner, 30 November, Glasgow Caledonian University.

2006 Invited speaker 'Beyond the classroom: international collaboration', with Helen Jones, Maggie Sumner and Eileen Berrington, 25-28 October, Conference of European Distance and E-Learning Network, Castelldefels, Barcelona.

2006 Invited speaker 'Framing victims of domestic violence', November, University of Chester, Conference Media Representation and Society.

2006 'Surviving Domestic Violence: Key Issues', International Sociological Association, XVI World Congress of Sociology, 23-29 July 2006, Durban, South Africa.

2006 Invited speaker 'Surviving Domestic Violence', Conference on Domestic Violence, Metropolitan University, 15 March 2006.

Published book reviews

2008 Review of Domestic violence, The Five Big Questions edited by Mangai Natarajan, 2007, Aldershot: Ashgate in Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 42(7):823-825

2007 Review of Social Policy for the Twenty-First Century: New Perspectives, Big Issues by Bill Jordan, 2006, Cambridge: Polity in Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.

2005 Review of 'Sexual politics and social control', by Frances Heidensohn in Psychology of Women Section Review, Vol 7 (2): 84-85.

2004 Review of 'Media, sex, violence and drugs in the global village' edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour and Kuldip R. Rampal, in Media, Culture and Society Vol 26(1):147-153.

2001 Review of 'Making women count: integrating gender into law and policy-making', edited by Fiona Beveridge, Sue Nott and Kylie Stephen, published in Network (BSA) September.

2001 Review of 'UK drugs unlimited: new research and policy lessons on illicit drug use, edited by Howard Parker, Judith Aldridge and Roy Egginton (eds.) in Youth Justice.

2001 Review of 'Women, drugs and custody: the experiences of women drug users in prison, by Margaret S. Malloch, in Youth Justice.

2000 Review of 'Transnational social policy' edited by Catherine Jones Finer published in Network (BSA) 2000.

Publications from the institutional repository