Members' Section

Early Career Academics Network

What?

The Howard League for Penal Reform’s early career academic network is an internet based network to help you keep in touch with each other, provide a regular channel of communication and information about research and promote closer working and an interface between academics and campaigners.

The network members' pages will aim to develop debate, include articles, letters, opinion pieces and a directory of its members.

Members bulletin

All members will receive bi-monthly e-bulletin providing information about policy developments, resources and campaigns. It is anticipated that there will be one event per academic term.

The latest bulletin is available for the network members on the ECAN pages.

Older bulletins:

ECAN Bulletin issue 4, June 2010

Features include:

Hate Crime (Dr Neil Chakraborti, University of Leicester)
An alternative approach to tackling ‘anti-social’ youth: the case of Victoria, Australia (Dr Nathan Hughes, University of Birmingham)
Users Views of Punishment: Qualitative Research on the Experience of Short Prison and Community-based Sentences (Beth Weaver, Strathclyde University and Sarah Armstrong, University of Glasgow)

ECAN Bulletin issue 3, April 2010 - part 1

ECAN Bulletin issue 3, April 2010 - part 2

Features include:

Con-viviality? – living inside under heavy manners (Rod Earle, Open University)
The influence of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the English youth justice system (Raymond Arthur, Teesside University)
Researching mental health in prisons (Manuela Jarrett, King’s College London)

ECAN Bulletin issue 2, February 2010

Features include:

Section 30 Dispersal Powers: Emerging Findings from Merseyside (Evans et al., Liverpool John Moores University)
Investigating public perceptions of anti-social behaviour (Vicky Heap, University of Huddersfield)
Research focus: Men serving long-term prison sentences (Deborah Drake, Open University)

ECAN Bulletin issue 1, November 2009

Features include:

Opening doors: My involvement with the Howard League (Rosie Meek, University of Southampton)
Is football violence back in fashion? (James Treadwell, University of Leicester)
The Caribbean Court of Justice and the death penalty (Frederick Cowell, Commonwealth and Human Rights Institute)

Who?

The network is intended for academics in their first post or post graduate students aiming for academic or research post. Anyone working in fields related to criminology, social policy, law, humanities or research interests related to these areas can join the network.

For more information and details of how to join email:

Anita Dockley, Research Director