Criminology BA (Hons)

Amy Johnson

Amy has been a lecturer at the University of Worcester for four years. Amy enjoys bringing real-world challenges and issues into her classroom and draws upon her experience of working with various client groups (homelessness, addictions, offending and domestic abuse) to demonstrate application. Specifically, Amy enjoys listening to her student’s ambitions and supporting them throughout their degree to reach their potential. Amy has been working with organisations across Worcestershire to ensure students have the best volunteer and work placement opportunities.

Amy enjoys researching offending behaviour and exploring how the criminal justice system is set up to support individuals with behavioural challenges and those who have a lower intellectual ability. Amy has an interest in the development of behaviour change interventions and evidence-based practice, particularly within the community and healthcare settings. Most recently, Amy is working on a large scale research project relating to the development of an integrated intervention targeting men in substance use treatment who perpetrate intimate partner abuse. Over the past twelve months, Amy has been delivering intimate partner violence and ADVANCE training all over the UK to practitioners at substance use services.

Beverley Gilbert

Beverley has over 30 years of experience working within the criminal justice system.  She was a Police Officer in Birmingham deployed in various uniform and plain clothes roles, including in plain clothes surveillance roles and as a Detective Family Protection Officer. As a Probation Officer, Beverley worked with individuals who posed a high risk of causing harm, including perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence.  She was a semi specialist officer working with custodial cases, including those serving Life and Indeterminate Sentence prisoners. Beverley has been a sessional Expert Domestic Violence Risk Assessor for London based DViP and the Family Courts in the London and Greater London areas.

Beverley works internationally connected to gender based and domestic violence. She is an Individual UK Member of WAVE (Women Against Violence in Europe).  She is author of the Malta Government’s Multi Agency Risk Assessment Meeting guidelines (MARAM) and author of the Full Cooperation: Zero Violence Professionals’ Train the Trainer package, regarding multi agency best practice with those experiencing gender based and domestic violence.

Pat Hayward

Pat completed her MA in Professional Development: The Dynamics of Domestic Violence from the University of Worcester in November 2014.  She has been an Associate Lecturer for University of Worcester since 2015, completing her PGCE in 2017.

Pat has taught on modules for the MA Understanding Domestic & Sexual Violence, and many undergraduate courses within the School of Applied Health and Community and School of Nursing and Midwifery working with student Midwives and Paramedics and providing outreach training for Hospital and Community Midwives.

Pat has also worked within the School of Psychology as course tutor on the undergraduate Criminology module on Domestic Abuse running in 2019-2020.

Her special area of interest is how domestic abuse affects parenting and its impact on the health of babies and children. Her previous research has explored the impact of domestic abuse on the mother - child attachment and the role of the Health Visitor in supporting mothers and identified how health services need to be more innovative in the identification and delivery of their services in order to be more responsive to the needs of families experiencing domestic abuse. 

Jenna Page

Jenna Page is a lecturer in Criminology and has worked at the University of Worcester for two years. Jenna's criminological interests include animal rights and welfare, criminal justice and youth justice. Jenna currently leads on the modules Criminological Theory, Criminal Justice, Families and Criminality and Children Young People and Crime.

Prior to moving into academia Jenna was a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal executives and specialised in housing litigation law. One of Jenna's particular interests as a litigator was anti-social behaviour.

Jenna enjoys her current roles as a Personal Academic Tutor and Admissions Tutor within the Criminology Team. In particular Jenna enjoys visiting prospective students at colleges to talk to students about life as a University of Worcester criminology student. Jenna is currently studying her Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.

Max Hart

My name is Max Hart and I am Lecturer in Criminology within the department of Violence Prevention, Trauma and Criminology at the University of Worcester. I gained my BA (Hons.) degree in Criminology in 2017 and my MA in Criminology in 2018.

I have worked at the University of Worcester since October 2019, before this I worked as a Research Assistant at Birmingham City University and volunteered for a small charity who support homeless groups in Birmingham, with whom I still support in my free time.