Meet the Team

Sue Bond-Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social & Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln where she has taught for 17 years across a number of interdisciplinary modules. Sue is the module co-ordinator for the new Youth Justice module and has been instrumental in the design and planning of the module to date, and the inclusion of students in that process. This reflects her role as the School’s Student Engagement Champion, promoting student voice and staff/student partnership approaches to education within the School. She has a number of publications in pedagogic research, for example on embedding employability skills in the Criminology curriculum and on the value of youth empowerment perspectives in the ‘student as producer’ model of higher education.  Her primary research interests are in the area of youth justice and crime prevention, anti-social behaviour and family intervention programmes. She has undertaken research on behalf of Lincolnshire County Council to evaluate their youth crime prevention project and more recently their troubled families’ service, and it is in this area of policy that Sue continues to research and publish.

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Ceryl Teleri Davies is a doctoral student in the Social and Political Sciences department at the University of Lincoln, funded by the University. Ceryl is a qualified Solicitor and Social Worker, with a Master’s degree in both work areas, a postgraduate diploma in Community and Criminal Justice, and qualifications in Mental Health. Ceryl has extensive practice-based experience across social care, criminal justice and mental health services, including work on a multi-agency basis to support children, young people and vulnerable adults at practitioner, middle and senior management level. Ceryl has also undertaken participatory work with young people for the purpose of research and to inform the development of a Youth Justice preventative project focusing on ‘health and wellbeing’. As part of these roles, Ceryl has undertaken s47 child protection investigations, multi-agency assessments and Child Care Court work (both civil and youth justice). Ceryl has been a statutory member of, among others, the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board, Children and Young People’s Partnerships, and the Community Safety Partnership, and has represented Local Authorities at Welsh national meetings and UK national meetings. Ceryl has also trained staff on child protection, youth justice, quality assurance, complaints management, data protection, and risk management matters.

During her time at the University of Lincoln, Ceryl has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level on the Criminology and Social Work degrees. Research interests include feminist methodologies, ‘mixed methods’, participation with young people, GBV, and prevention and early intervention in social care and criminal justice.

Stacey Waller, Practice Supervisor with Lincolnshire Youth Offending Service

Stacey acts as our point of contact with Lincolnshire Youth Offending Service, liaising with other staff in the team as well as advising on content and assessment strategy.

“I came to Lincoln in 1998 to study Psychology and Criminology at what was then the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside – I was even taught by Sue! I graduated in 2001 and had fallen in love with Lincoln so stayed and took up work in a Care Home supporting adults with learning disabilities and volunteered with SOVA who worked with young offenders.  During this time I gained experience in dealing with challenge behaviour and support vulnerable adults and young people – I also learnt that I had a passion for working with people and this is where I saw my future.  My work experience and degree both gave me the knowledge and experiences to discuss and draw on when  I applied to be a Trainee Probation Officer for Lincolnshire in 2002.  My training involved working for the National Probation Service and studying a further degree at Birmingham University in Probation Practice, on qualification I had five years in front line practice before moving into training and quality development and eventually management in 2013.  In 2014 I applied for a position with the Lincolnshire Youth Offending Service and remain here as a Practice Supervisor in Lincoln.  The appeal of working with young offenders was always the potential that they had for change and the greater impact that you could have through effective intervention at a younger age.  I thoroughly love the work that we do and am grateful to work with a skilled and passionate group of staff.  It is hard work but I would recommend it to anyone!”

Candice McKane, 3rd year BSc (Hons) Criminology and Forensic Investigation

I have worked with young people for the past seven years in both a football coaching and a petting farm environment. My career aim is to work with vulnerable young people in the field of missing persons investigations. The project appealed to me because I value the importance of students working alongside teaching staff in co-creating academic modules. I also thought that I, personally had a great deal of attributes which I could use to help create this interesting, contemporary and exciting module.

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Grace Murray 3rd year BA (Hons) Criminology.

When I was living at home I would help organise and run a community football session on a Friday night so that young people had somewhere to go instead of causing problems or being stigmatised as ‘hoodies’. This is what really got me interested in Youth Justice and what there is out there to help young people stay out of the criminal justice system and those already in the system. I wanted to be a part of this project because I think it is an exciting project to be involved with as it is one of the first of its kind. This project is important as it gets modules running a way that students want it to, which will hopefully then lead to more engagement by the students taking the module. Also, we get to work closely with professionals outside of academics which is a great networking opportunity.  The thing I am most excited about is actually seeing this module being a success and students enjoying it.

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Kirsty Groom 3rd Year BA (Hons) Criminology and Politics.                                                         

 I currently volunteer at the West Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Service mentoring victims of abuse. This enables me to work with young people and their families to empower them to move forward in their lives. As many clients I volunteer with are associated with different youth and criminal justice services I believe this gives me an insight into how youth services work. Upon completing my degree, I hope to move onto further study to become a social worker. I wanted to be part of this project because of its uniqueness. Not only does it look great on my CV to work in partnership with staff and students on an academic project, it allows me to have a my own input into the creation of a module. I’m looking forward to interviewing youth justice practitioners and creating useful resources for the course.  

Roisin Mullee 3rd year BA (Hons) Criminology

Career wise I would love you to work within the Youth Offending Service as a case worker or work within the research side of youth crime to find out the reasons and causes as to why they take the path they do. I think it is a great opportunity to get an insight to how modules are created as well as building a professional relationship with staff and the Youth Offending Service. Create a module for students by students which hopefully will be successful and give students what they want from their learning experience.

Matthew Hendey 2nd year BA (Hons) Criminology

This Project was a great opportunity for me to develop skills and understanding around youth offending. For a future career I would like to work in youth probation. I see this project as a great stepping stone for that, with collecting understanding on how different institutes work.  I am looking forward to carrying on the work and enhancing my knowledge.

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Abi Ogle 3rd year BA (Hons) Criminology

From September 2015 I will be volunteering as an Admin Assistant in the CID with Lincolnshire Police which will give me experience of working with the police and youth as some of the roles I will carry provide opportunities to work with young people. Upon completing my degree I would like to work either in the police or in local government. After the increase in tuition fess to student has become a consumer and so I feel it is important that we shape our educational experiences for ourselves and for other students and this project allows us to do that. I hope that this project will help me gain a greater understanding of the Youth Justice System in the UK and provide me with a unique experience and a set of skills which I can put on my CV and talk about interviews.

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Katie Walker 3rd year BA (Hons) Criminology

I currently study Criminology and aspire to be a Social Worker in a youth offending team after I graduate. This project stood out to me, as it gives students an opportunity to engage in the side to university modules that they never really see. By working alongside staff and practitioners it opens your eyes to new opportunities and makes you value the work that they do even more. I am currently in the process of volunteering for Lincolnshire Action Trust as a youth offending mentor and I hope to someday volunteer for the Samaritans as I believe these services do an amazing job at transforming people’s lives for the better. This module creation process has been a great experience so far and I look forward to seeing the finished product!

Freya Jeffrey, BSc (Hons) Criminology and Forensic Investigation – has now graduated.

I am a confident, outgoing and ambitious individual with a passion for criminology and forensic science. I have a particular interest in youth justice and would be interested in becoming involved in trying to reduce youth crime and help to rehabilitate youth offenders. I am keen to reduce the stigma surrounding youth offending and educate the general public in the, albeit complex, reasons behind youth crime. I have experience working with young people as I currently volunteer as a youth club mentor and I worked for the National Citizen Service during the summer of 2014 where I led teams of young people to become involved in their local community through volunteer and work experience projects in west London. I am also going to Michigan, U.S. this summer to work as camp counsellor teaching culinary arts. I hope this will continue to concrete my experience working with young people and motivate my passion to continue wanting to help and support the younger generation. I hope that by being a part of creating this youth justice module I can draw upon my own experiences of criminology modules I have studied during my 3 years at university to give the best advice possible to how this one should be structured, however I also hope to create links with local youth justice organisations where I can find out more information about starting a career within the youth justice sector. I am particularly interested in working within the prison service and have already been in discussions with the governor at YOI Aylesbury about becoming a prison officer there.

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