Staff profiles
Richard Lynch
LLB, BPhil, DipSW, MA, Professional Certificate of Management, FHEA (Accredited University Teaching Practitioner)
Phone 0114 225 4398
E-mail r.lynch@shu.ac.uk
Subject areas
Criminology and community justice
Richard worked in criminal and community justice practice as a paralegal, drug worker, prison probation officer and community case manager until 2001. Since then he has developed his research interests (drugs, pre-sentence reports, social exclusion 1994 -1999), teaching experience and academic development practice at the University of Plymouth (on the BA Community Justice course 2000 - 2003) and at Sheffield Hallam University (since 2003).
He has recently held Sheffield Hallam University Associate (personal) and University (small group) Teaching Fellowships and is an Associate of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Promoting Learner Autonomy. He has had a secondment to The Assessment for Learning Initiative (TALI) and is the Faculty of Development and Society appointee for Research-informed Teaching.
Research interests
- community justice policy
- drugs and crime
- academic practice
- workplace learning
Teaching interests
- researching crime and community justice
- policy making in community justice
- crime prevention and community safety
- scholarship, research and evaluation in higher education
Recent publications
Lynch, R. (2007) Employability and learner autonomy: creating new relationships in the curriculum. Paper to the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Adelaide 8-11 July.
Lynch, R. (2006) Coercion and Social Exclusion: The Case of Motivating Change in Drug-using Offenders. British Journal of Community Justice 4 (1), 33-48.
Lynch, R., Leo, S. and Downing, K. (2006) Context Dependent Learning: Its Value and Impact for Workplace Education. Education and Training 48 (1), 15-24.
Lynch, R. (2004) 'How Healthy is Your 'Community of Practice'? Probation Journal 51 (1), 59-66.
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