Established in 2023, the Centre for Social Justice Research (CSJR) sets out to understand contemporary social inequalities and challenge the power relations and institutions that sustain them in order to bring about meaningful social change.
CSJR members are experts in the following areas of critical social science:
- prisons, probation, criminal justice, convict criminology
- gender studies, queer theory, sexuality, embodiment
- race and racism, policing, religion, social class
- leisure studies, public space, gentrification
- media activism, social movements
- migration and border regimes, terrorism studies, trafficking, organised crime
- family studies, young people, juvenile justice
- sex education and sexual harm
- education, critical pedagogies, prisoner education
Contact us
- Dr Ben Pitcher (CSJR Director): [email protected]
- Dr Wendy Fitzgibbon (Deputy Director): [email protected]