Professor Simon Winlow

Associate Head of School

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Simon has previously worked at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, the University of York and Teesside University, where he established the Teesside Centre of Realist Criminology with Professor Steve Hall in 2012. Simon is an interdisciplinary scholar, but he has particular expertise in sociology and criminology. He is currently the Vice President of the British Society of Criminology.

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Key Publications

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Editorial: Understanding violence: new data and theory, Ellis, A., Winlow, S., Briggs, D. 30 Apr 2026, In: Frontiers in Sociology
Living in the Ruins: Melancholic Nostalgia and the Decomposition of England's Traditional Working Class, Winlow, S. 24 Mar 2026, In: Journal of Working-Class Studies
Some Reflections on the Ethics of Covert Ethnography among Hard-to-Reach Populations, Winlow, S. 23 Apr 2026, Legacies of the Lost in Criminology, Bristol, Bristol University Press
Beyond Modernism, Winlow, S. 18 Feb 2025, The Politics of Nostalgia, Leeds, Emerald Publishing
Fearing the Future, Winlow, S. 18 Feb 2025, The Politics of Nostalgia, Leeds, Emerald Publishing
Intimations of Post-Sociality, Winlow, S. 18 Feb 2025, The Politics of Nostalgia, Leeds, Emerald Publishing
Introduction: Falling, Winlow, S. 18 Feb 2025, The Politics of Nostalgia, Leeds, Emerald Publishing
Lost Roots, Winlow, S. 18 Feb 2025, The Politics of Nostalgia, Leeds, Emerald Publishing
Morbid symptoms: edging towards the end of the neoliberal age, Winlow, S. 18 Feb 2025, Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
Nostalgia’s New Contexts: An Ethnography of Class, Decline and Remembering, Winlow, S. 25 Sep 2025, In: Journal of Extreme Anthropology

PGR Supervision

Jeannie O'Beirne A qualitative investigation into the relationship between literacy and crime Start Date: 18/01/2021
Jeannie O'Beirne A qualitative investigation into the relationship between literacy and crime Start Date: 18/01/2021 End Date: 17/10/2025