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Dr Rebecca Oswald

Lecturer

Department: Social Sciences

Rebecca is a Criminology Lecturer in the department of Social Sciences. She currently teaches on undergraduate Criminology BSc modules and on the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA). She recently was awarded her PhD at Northumbria University, entitled 'Exploring the Impact of Meaningful Employment upon the Identity and Desistance Process of Young Offenders'. 

 

Rebecca Oswald

Rebecca's research interests lie in the areas of youth crime, youth justice, desistance from offending and the changing labour market and how this affects vulnerable groups in society.

She currently works together with colleagues at Northumbria University on the Newcastle Youth Justice Service Pathfinder Research Project on serious youth violence (awarded £50,000 by Youth Justice Board)

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • ‘Safe spaces and places’: the value of design-led methodologies in developing online narratives, Oswald, R., Soppitt, S., Spencer, N., Powell, L., Richardson, C., Coombs, S. 23 Jan 2023, In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  • Condemned to precarity? Criminalised youths, social enterprise and the sub-precariat, Soppitt, S., Oswald, R., Walker, S. 15 Jun 2022, In: Social Enterprise Journal
  • The impact of employment upon young offenders' identities, Oswald, R. 1 Jun 2022, In: Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
  • Exploring Young Offenders’ Conceptions of Meaningful Employment, Oswald, R. 14 Dec 2021, In: Trends in Psychology
  • Exploring how employment schemes for young offenders aid desistance from crime, Oswald, R. 22 Jan 2020, In: Probation Journal
  • Do Flood Mitigation and Natural Habitat Protection Employment Reduce Youth Offending?, Long, M., Oswald, R., Stretesky, P., Soppitt, S. 1 Jun 2019, In: European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

  • PhD November 28 2020
  • Criminology MA June 30 2016
  • Law LLB (Hons) June 19 2012


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