Jonathan Shute

Additional Information

Teaching:

• CRIM 10432 Psychology, Crime & Criminal Justice    
• CRIM 31052 Criminology & Mass Violence
• CRIM 70102 Necrocriminology: Case Studies in Mass Violence             

I am Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head, and Director of Teaching & Learning in the Department of Criminology. I have taught and researched at the Universities of Edinburgh (1998-2001), Glasgow (2001-2005) and Manchester (since 2005). I was Head of Research & Evaluation at the NSPCC's Centre for Early Child Development (CECD) in 2018,

I have published in English, French and Spanish and on a wide variety of topics associated with violence and family stress. I am a member of the editorial board of the journal 'Human Remains & Violence', affiliate to the British and European Societies of Criminology, the 'Eurogang' network and several other groups in the field of death studies and (separately!) pedagogy in higher education. 

I am a member of the Cabinet Office's 'What Works' Trial Advice Panel and a member of the ESRC's Future Leaders Peer Review College.

At Manchester, I have held the following service & committee roles:

• Deputy Head of Department (2020- )
• Departmental Director of Teaching & Learning (2019- )
• Undergraduate Programmes Director (2019-20)
• PGT Programmes Director (2013-15 & 2019-20)
• Deputy Associate Dean for PGR, Director of ESRC North-West SS DTP 'Methods North West' network (2017-18)
• LLB Curriculum Review T&F Group (2017-18)
• Global Justice Institute Working Group (2016-17)
• Departmental Research Seminar Convenor (2010-2012)
• Departmental PGR Director (2010-12)
• Criminology Careers Liaison (2009-11)
• Chair of Pedagogy Sub-Group, School of Law UG Teaching Review (2009)
• Elected member of School of Law Teaching & Learning Committee (2007-11)

• theoretical rapprochement between psychology & criminology.
• moral neutralisation theory as applied to state crime & genocide.
• motives of attention towards suffering

• compliance in the lifecourse (esp. moral development, youth crime & desistance)
• criminological psychology (esp. offender rehabilitation & early family intervention)
• research methods and statistics (esp. policy evaluation research)
• psychology of effecive teaching and learning in higher education