Research Profile
Prof Gordon Hughes
Career Profile
Gordon is currently the Director of the Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice. The research programme builds upon existing methodological and research capacity in the Schools of Social Sciences and Law.
Gordon joined Cardiff Univeristy in 2006 as Chair in Criminology. He was previously a Professor in Criminology at The Open University.
Memberships / External Activities
- Member of the ESRC Review College
- Member of the Management Board of the Welsh Research Centre for Crime and Social Justice.
- External Examiner at Universities of Edinburgh and Brimingham.
- Co-editor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (note this international journal of the British Society of Criminology is housed and edited collectively by the Criminology Group at Cardiff School of Social Sciences: http://crj.sagepub.com/)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology.
- Past member of the editorial board of Social and Legal Studies.
- Co-opted Director (Academic) of the UK practitioner network, National Community Safety Network
- Co-Director of the European Society of Criminology working group, the European Governance of Public Safety Research Network (EUGPSRN) (2003-8)
- Current member of the British Society of Criminology Professional Affairs and past member of its Executive Committee and Regional Branch Co-ordinator (2001-7)
- Member of the Home Office Crime and Disorder Act Review Team (2005-6)
- Plenary speaker at academic and professional conferences across Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
- Visiting research fellow, Department of Criminology, University of Melbourne (2003).
Teaching Profile
Teaching Profile
- Undergraduate level- Programme leader of the BSc Criminology (Single Honours) launched in 2007. Co-ordinator of Year 1 module The Criminological Imagination. My other areas of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate include theory and method in contemporary criminology, sociological criminology and social theory, comparative crime control strategies, politics of community, disorder and crime, community safety and youth justice,
- Doctoral level - supervision of postgraduate students in the substantive areas of community safety, crime prevention, youth justice, comparative governance of crime and disorder, urban regeneration and crime, policy transfer in crime control policy and practice, and criminological expertise and public social science. There are currently opportunities for exceptional students to join the team of PhD students in the Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice on issues relating to crime control and policing. Anyone interested in undertaking doctoral and postdoctoral research, please contact me at Hughesgh@cardiff.ac.uk.
Current Administration
- Director Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice
- Member of the School of Social Sciences Management Board
- Chair of Equality and Diversity and Staff Development Committee in the School of Social Sciences
- Management Group of WCCSJ