Staff profiles
Dr Liz Austen
BA, MA, PHD
Phone 0114 225 5593
E-mail l.austen@shu.ac.uk
Subject area
Criminology
I am currently the Programme Leader for the criminology programme in the Department of Law, Criminology and Community Justice. This programme covers three courses; Criminology, Criminology and Psychology and Criminology and Sociology. My main responsibility is around promoting the student experience.
I have been teaching at undergraduate level in Sheffield since 2002 and postgraduate level since 2007.
Research interests
- postmodern research methodology
- non-problematic substance use
- young people and risk-taking behaviour
- the application of postmodernist theory to crime and deviance, for example globalisation and drug trafficking (MA), the risk society and cannabis use (PhD)
Teaching interests
- drug use and users/alternative lifestyles
- introduction to criminology
- criminological research methods
- the sociology of risk
- research supervision
- personal and academic development
Research publications
Chadee, D. Austen, L. and Ditton, J. (2007) The relationship between likelihood and fear of criminal victimisation: Evaluating risk sensitivity as a mediating concept, The British Journal of Criminology,47, pp 133 - 153.
Austen, L. (2009) The Social Construction of Risk by Young People, Health, Risk and Society, 11: 5 , pp 451 - 470
Recent conference papers
January 2011, keynote paper: The Social Construction of Risk by Young People, Sociology of Risk Conference, University of Copenhagen
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