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Dr Jude Towers is a Senior Lecturer in Policing. Since completing her PhD (Economic Inequality and Intimate Partner Violence against Women) in 2013, she has worked as a Senior Research Associate (Lancaster University), a Lecturer in Sociology (Lancaster University) and a Senior Lecturer in Policing (LJMU), before taking up a Senior Lectureship at Edge Hill in 2022.
Jude’s research has been focused on the construction and use of data, with a series of projects and publications on the construction and use of data in the measurement of violence and its impact on academic knowledge, policy and practice.
Jude’s teaching is increasingly focusing on research methods, research skills and research projects. She also has experience teaching: criminal justice, criminological theory, and violence. She is a Module Lead and has been a Programme Lead for PGT and UG programmes (LJMU).
Jude’s research and teaching interests are coming together into a new focus around the pedagogy, utility, implementation and impact of research for police (for the act of policing; and for those who are/will be policing). This work draws on her teaching experience with UG and PGT policing students, supervision of PGRs, working with those who police, and her four-year experience as the Strand Lead for Training and Learning for the N8 Policing Research Partnership (2016-2020).
Jude is also working on a couple of projects focused on the concept of "challenging justice", including the concepts of challenging the reality of justice and how challenging the concept of justice can be / is. This includes a project with an English police force looking at an out of court disposal scheme designed to divert those whose criminal offending is linked to their mental health away from the criminal justice system and into support services via a multiagency panel.
Jude currently supervisors three PGRs who are investigating policing problems (domestic abuse / rape and sexual violence / big data crime detection). She has two completions (Dr Jessica Phoenix and Dr Elouise Davies).
Jude is a CI on the UKRI funded Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network.
Jude is an External Examiner for the BSc Professional Policing degree at UCL.
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In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Academic Practice , PGCert, Liverpool John Moores University
Award Date: 1 Dec 2020
Applied Social Statistics, PhD, Economic Inequality and Intimate Partner Violence against Women , Lancaster University
Award Date: 1 Jul 2013
Applied Social Statistics, MRes, An Evaluation of the Use of Statistical Evidence in the Production and Legitimation of Official Policy on Domestic Violence in the UK, Lancaster University
Award Date: 30 Sept 2009
Global Politics, BA, Lancaster University
Award Date: 31 Jul 2008
Senior Lecturer (visiting), City, University of London
External Examiner BSc Professional Policing, University College London
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial (journal)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review