4th Student Employability Conference – A Student Journey into Forensics
I am pleased to let you all know about an exciting event happening on Wednesday 24th Jan 2024 11am – 3pm in R001/R002.
The 4th ‘Journey into Forensics’ employability conference and has been arranged in conjunction with the Centre of Crime, Justice and Security and Staffordshire Forensic Partnership, I would strongly encourage you to attend.
The conference will consist of several short presentations from Staffordshire University Graduates who have ALL undertaken a Forensic course in the last 5 years here at Staffordshire University, so they have been through what you are undertaking right now.
They are ALL now working in a Public or private sector role across a range of disciplines Digital, Imaging, Investigative or crime scene processing for organisations such as the National Crime Agency, West Midlands Police, Staffordshire Police, CCL Forensics, Sytech Forensics, HMRC, CyFor and Thames Valley Police.
There will be lots of inspiring stories and most importantly hints and tips for you to land those latest jobs within forensics, so save the date and watch out for updates in due course!
Please click to link to register-
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/journeys-in-to-digital-forensics-tickets-768264388467?aff=oddtdtcreator
Action on Poverty Conference 2023
September 18th and 19th 2023 at Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent Campus
This year’s Action on Poverty Conference at Staffordshire University is on our Stoke-on-Trent campus and is taking place on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th September 2023. This is a free event for the anti-poverty sector to come together to learn and share practice and is part of the Social Justice agenda of the Centre for Crime, Justice and Security via our Action on Poverty team in partnership with CHAD research centre, the Connected Communities team, Rethinking Poverty, All The Small Things CIC and Support Staffordshire.
To give you a taster of the event – here is a promo video from last year where you will hear from Citizens Advice North Staffs and Stoke and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation https://youtu.be/DOButx4d3Tg. This year we anticipate people from the voluntary and public sectors coming together from across the UK to explore the issues and solutions to addressing poverty.
Conference speakers at this year’s event include leaders from the Rethinking Poverty network, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Citizens Advice North Staffs and Stoke and academics from Staffordshire University, Hull University and Heersink School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. A series of breakout sessions are planned and currently include writing bids and commissioning anti-poverty work, climate change and poverty, food poverty, liaising with the media, approaches to co-creating with people with lived experience, working with asylum seekers and recruiting and working with volunteers. A market stall area will enable you to find out more about organisations tackling poverty and to purchase relevant books. More will be added to this programme and you are invited to propose delivering a breakout presentation or facilitating a market stall stand – please get in touch with Sarah.Page@staffs.ac.uk to find out more about how your research, campaign or organisation can be involved in the conference programme.
This year, Bristol Policy Press is sponsoring and attending the event and have a range of anti-poverty resources that you may be interested in: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-escape-from-poverty A couple of Palgrave authors will be sharing their insights at the conference and you will be able to purchase their books at the Policy Press stand.
To book onto this year’s event, please do so via this Eventbrite link Action on Poverty Conference Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite. Staffordshire University are working with a number of local and national collaborators on this event. If you want more details on how your organisation might have a stand at the event or deliver a short talk, then please contact Sarah.Page@staffs.ac.uk The conference will also be a launch for the new online Masters degree in Leadership in Action on Poverty, which the University is starting this October 2023 – for more details about the Masters degree please contact Julie.Tipping@staffs.ac.uk and we will be launching our new Action on Poverty in the UK book at the end of the conference. This book emerged following the hosting of our first Action on Poverty conference in the summer of 2022 and is collection of chapters designed to provoke conversation and discussion about poverty and hardship from a number of activists and academics working in the field, published with Palgrave.
CCJS Annual Conference
Date:11th July 2023
Venue Staffordshire University
Register here: Centre for Crime, Justice & Security Annual Conference Tickets, Tue 11 Jul 2023 at 09:00 | Eventbrite
After the successful launch of the CCJS in 2022, we would like to continue building new networks, celebrating existing partnerships and sharing knowledge.
The themes for this event are;
- Collaboration and cross pollination
- Innovation
- Internationalisation
This event will present our work being conducted both nationally and internationally and provide a place for networking and developing new partnerships for research, innovation and enterprise.
Community Speed Watch – is it an effective route to road safety?
Date: 3rd July 2023
Venue: Staffordshire University
Full details to be announced. For more information, email leanne.savigar-shaw@staffs.ac.uk
The Centre for Crime, Justice and Security invites you to Motivational Monday’s! This weekly event will be an informal place for you to connect with other PGRs, share ideas and set aims for the week – or just to say hello! This will be a no pressure environment and you can get involved as much or as little as you want. This meet-up will be 10-11am every week via Teams.
So, lets kick each week off to a motivational start and get together!
Microsoft Teams Link to join the event:
It’s Time to Write! Researcher’s Writing Room
The Centre for Crime, Justice and Security invites you to their regular writing retreats as part of their programme of activities and events. These will be run every Wednesday (1-3pm) via Teams.
Recognising the rapidly evolving impact of Covid-19, our writing retreats will allow researchers to use dedicated writing time to progress any project in a supportive, non-surveillance environment. The 2-hour session will include a 10-minute check-in at the start to outline what you want to achieve in the session. There will also be an mid-session check-in to share progress and hints and tips. These check-ins will be led by the Chair of the session (Chairs will rotate each week).
Most of the session will be made up of writing in a friendly atmosphere; whilst being able to pose writing based questions in the chat so you can share ideas and support one another. The aim is that you use the sessions to develop drafts, solve writing problems and lead to research-orientated conversations.
Microsoft Teams Link to join the event:
Our weekly Staff Writing Room is an informal yet productive place where you can work on whatever writing is important to you at the time; this could be a blog piece, a report, a journal article, a grant bid, a conference abstract/presentation or anything where you need the space and time to dedicate to its creation. This is a chance for you to set aims to complete during dedicated silent writing periods, and share ideas or solve writing problems by discussing them with others during the mid-way writing break.
To make these as accessible as possible, the Writing Room will open at different times each week and all will be facilitated via Teams. In our experience, seeing others disseminating their work in this supportive environment really motivates us and helps us make the time to complete these important tasks.
Crime Tape Podcasts
From motive to mass murder, join the experts at Staffordshire University as they dissect controversial crimes that have shocked the world. #CrimeTapes
Listen to the first series on –
YouTube here: #CrimeTapes…on Violent Gaming – YouTube
Buzzsprout here: Crime Tapes (buzzsprout.com)