Staff profiles
Linda Meadows
Knowledge management in criminal justice
MSc Information Management, BA (Hons), PGCert Criminal Justice
Phone 0114 225 5388
Email l.meadows@shu.ac.uk
Subject area
Knowledge management
I joined the Hallam Centre for Community Justice in September 2002 to implement the Community Justice Portal - a web-based tool for connecting, informing and training criminal justice practitioners. I was appointed as senior lecturer in knowledge management in criminal justice in March 2006 with a remit to develop research, consultancy and professional development services in the area of knowledge management, specifically related to the criminal justice sector.
I am an experienced knowledge manager with 20 years experience in knowledge and information management. My background is mainly in the private sector where I have held senior posts in knowledge management across a range of industry sectors, including chief knowledge officer for a UK investment bank and global knowledge manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consultancy practice.
As a knowledge manager I have been responsible for defining and implementing knowledge management strategies to facilitate working across geographical and organisational boundaries. My particular focus has been in defining and implementing processes and systems to capture knowledge and best practice leading to improved business performance.
Research interests
My principal interests include
- knowledge sharing systems, processes and technologies
- applications for knowledge management within the criminal justice sector
- role of tacit knowledge in knowledge management systems implementations
Recent and current research projects
- Evaluation of the South Yorkshire Restorative Justice Programme (South Yorkshire Police)
- Investigating the Prisoner Finance Gap across four prisons in the North East (Department for Work and Pensions)
- Mapping Interventions, Gap Analysis and Process Mapping to Develop Integrated Offender Management (Sheffield City Council)
- Nottinghamshire Health and Wellbeing Service Evaluation (Nottinghamshire Probation Trust)
- Evaluation of Sheffield Community Justice Panels Pilot Project (Sheffield City Council)
- Implementation of knowledge management systems and processes at Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Evaluation of South West Accommodation Gateway (SWAG) Pilot Project (NOMS) - Phases 1 and 2
- Evaluation of the Wakefield District Multi-Agency Domestic Abuse Service - Safe@Home: Cost Benefit Analysis
- Evaluation of a person centred counselling service at HMP Doncaster (Doncaster Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Centre)
- Women into Work: Moving On Evaluation (SOVA)
- Wakefield Prolific and Priority Offenders Scheme - Needs Analysis and Business Case
- History of Probation Scoping Study (NOMS)
- Knowledge Management in the Voluntary and Community Sector (Clinks)
Publications and reports
Senior, P., Wong, K., Culshaw, A., Ellingworth, D., O'Keeffe, C. and Meadows, L. (2011) Process Evaluation of Five Integrated Offender Management Pioneer Areas. ISBN: 978 1 84099 466 7
Meadows, L.., Feasey, S., Bird, H. (2010) Investigating the Prisoner Finance Gap across four prisons in the North East London: DWP ISBN 978-1-84712-895-9
Meadows, L., Clamp, K., Culshaw, A. Cadet, N, Wilkinson, K. and Davidson, J. (2010) Evaluation of Sheffield City Council's Community Justice Project
Senior, P, and Meadows, L (2008) 'Changing the Dynamic: An Evaluation of the South West Accommodation Gateway (SWAG). ISBN 978-1-84387-282-5
Feasey, S., Senior, P., Bird, H., Davidson, J., Meadows, L. and Robinson, A. (2008) The Resettlement of Offenders and Ex-Offenders in Doncaster Sheffield Hallam University
Feasey, S., Bird, H., Davidson, J., Meadows, L., Robinson. A. and Wilkinson, K. (2008) An Evaluation of the Sheffield PPO Premium Service Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University (unpublished interim report delivered to SCDRP)
Hamilton, P, Wilkinson K, Meadows, L (2008) 'The Answers are Within Me': An evaluation of a person centred counselling service for men at HMP Doncaster who have had experience of domestic violence 2005- 2007. Occasional Paper Series, HCCJ: Sheffield Hallam University, ISBN 1-84387-27-2-2.
Feasey, S., Bird, H., Meadows, L., Robinson, A. and Senior, P. (2007) The Wakefield District Prolific and Priority Offender Needs Analysis and Business Case Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University (Final Unpublished Report to WDCSP)
Meadows, L and O'Keeffe, C (2007) Internal Evaluation Report of the Women Into Work: Moving On, Women, HIV and Opportunities - A Positively Women Project, SOVA.
Meadows, L. (2006) Knowledge Management Briefing Paper, Clinks
Senior, P., Meadows, L. Feasey, S and Atkinson J. (2005) Enhancing the role of the Voluntary and Community Sector: A Case Study of the Yorkshire and Humber Region London: NOMS
The Online Manual: A Practical Guide to Business Databases (with S. Allcock). 4th edition. Oxford: Learned Information. ISBN 0-904933-93-8
A Study of the Emerging Market for Digital Datafeeds in the City of London. Occasional Publications Series. University of Sheffield. ISBN 0-903522-28-4
