Programme Lead
Dr Pete Harris is Senior Lecturer for Criminology and Programme Lead for the MA. Pete spent 18 years as a youth worker and then as a senior manager for a children’s charity before joining Newman in 2010. He holds a BA in Social Policy, a Dip.H.E. in Youth and Community Work and an M.A. in Education Studies. He was Presidents Doctoral Scholar at Manchester University where he completed an ESRC funded PhD in Criminology. Pete brings this cross disciplinary perspective to his research activity. In 2012 he co-led a multinational research project examining youth work responses to youth violence, the findings of which became a book entitled “Responding to Youth Violence through Youth Work” in September 2016. He has since presented at the British and European Societies for Criminology and Outreach Youth Work conferences in the UK, Malta and Scandinavia on the issue of youth violence and masculinity and has produced several published works in the area of youth work and youth crime. His current research interests include how psychosocial criminology can inform relationships between youth practitioners and young people involved in violence, the impact of trauma inflicted on soldiers in training, and how critical pedagogues can produce transformative learning in Higher Education.
You can contact Pete with any questions you may have about studying the Criminology and Social Justice MA: p.harris@newman.ac.uk