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Criminology, Politics and Sociology, Kingston University

Criminology, Politics and Sociology, Kingston University

By Peter Finn

This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.


Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk
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This is your 2022 US Midterms Cheat Sheet

Criminology, Politics and Sociology, Kingston University Oct 08, 2022

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Exploring Green Criminology and Gender with Professor Kay Peggs

Exploring Green Criminology and Gender with Professor Kay Peggs

This episode features an interview with Professor Kay Peggs.

  • Kay will shortly publish the co-edited volume 'Gendering Green Criminology'. This Bristol University Press volume is co-edited by Emma Milne, Pam Davies, James Heydon, Kay Peggs and Tanya Wyatt.
  • Kay will also shortly publish a chapter in the Routledge edited volume 'Criminology of the Domestic', which is edited by Pamela Davies, Michael Rowe.


This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.

Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn.

Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk

CPS Podcast Theme: Ring the Changes by Felix von Baron & the Pips

Jun 14, 202312:42
Exploring the 2022 US Midterms Brief Launch
Feb 03, 202348:55
Exploring Volunteering with Kingston Hub

Exploring Volunteering with Kingston Hub

The Q&A features Emily Hill of Kingston Hub

  • It is a partial recording of a Social Science Café event.
  • Social Science Café is a series of social and practical events within the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.
  • It was recoded on Fri Nov 4th, 2022.


This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.


Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk


CPS Podcast Theme: Ring the Changes by Felix von Baron & the Pips

Nov 22, 202227:03
Midterms 2022: a reflection of 2020 and current crises, or prelude to 2024?

Midterms 2022: a reflection of 2020 and current crises, or prelude to 2024?

This panel event was run by the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London, om the eve of the 2022 midterms, Nov 7th 2022.

The panel was:

  • Dr Pete Finn, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Kingston University
  • Dr Eldrid Herrington, Former Democratic Party Organiser in Nevada and Georgia and regular US elections commentator
  • Dr Kristin Hanson, Lecturer in Psychology at Kingston University
  • Samar Malik, Kingston University Graduate in Politics & International Relations, former Fieldwork Research Assistant at Anglia Ruskin University
  • Chair: Emily Hill, Kingston University Graduate in Human Rights & Social Justice, Kingston Hub Projects Officer


This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.


Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk


CPS Podcast Theme: Ring the Changes by Felix von Baron & the Pips

Nov 08, 202244:28
Exploring Vaccine hesitancy

Exploring Vaccine hesitancy

This episode on vaccine hesitancy features Josh Bullock


Josh is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at Kingston University, London.


He is a Co-Author of: What causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom


This interview originally appeared on The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast


This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.


Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk


CPS Podcast Theme: Ring the Changes by Felix von Baron & the Pips


Oct 12, 202219:13
This is your 2022 US Midterms Cheat Sheet

This is your 2022 US Midterms Cheat Sheet

'This is your 2022 US Midterms Cheat Sheet' was given as a faculty talk by Dr Pete Finn on Oct 8th, 2022


This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.


Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk


CPS Podcast Theme: Ring the Changes by Felix von Baron & the Pips

Oct 08, 202234:10
Ethnic food shops for community inclusion

Ethnic food shops for community inclusion

This talk by Nevena Nancheva is part of project exploring the role of ethic food shops in the context of their broader community and location.


It was given at the the annual conference of the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences of Kingston University, London on July 1, 2022.


This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.


Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk


CPS Podcast Theme: Pete & Felix Finn

Jul 07, 202217:59
Different things to different people: Food insecurity and aid in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic

Different things to different people: Food insecurity and aid in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic

This episode on food security and food insecurity in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic features Senior Lecturer Ronald Ranta.


This interview was originally published as an episode of The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast.


Ronald has published extensively on food security and food insecurity in the UK.


This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.


Executive Producer & Presenter: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk


CPS Podcast Theme: Pete & Felix Finn


Jul 06, 202234:41
What makes a place a home?

What makes a place a home?

This episode focuses on narratives of belonging among Syrian refugees in Turkey.


It features Dr Dogus Simsek discussing the chapter 'What makes a place a home? Syrian refugees’ narratives on belonging in Turkey', which is in the volume 'Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power'. This volume is published by Routledge and edited By Tamar Mayer & Trinh Tran.


This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.


Executive Producer & Presenter: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk


CPS Podcast Theme: Pete & Felix Finn

Jun 30, 202215:17
Do we understand each other yet? Transactional sex, agency and service failure in Bangladesh and Lebanon

Do we understand each other yet? Transactional sex, agency and service failure in Bangladesh and Lebanon

This episode features Megan Denise Smith, a humanitarian worker and gender-based violence specialist working in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. This talk was given on May 10th 2022.


Megan has ten years of experience working with migrants and refugees in Bangladesh, Egypt, Lebanon, Rwanda, and the UK. She is currently based in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where she has managed IOM´s GBV programming as part of the Rohingya refugee response since 2017. Megan studied for her undergraduate degree at Kingston University. She can be contacted at: megandenisesmith@gmail.com


Paper abstract:

Transactional Sex (TS) is often used as an umbrella term to encompass a wide range of practices ranging from sex work to sexual exploitation and abuse. It is typically framed as in humanitarian settings through reductive lenses that portray the person engaged in them as without agency, forced into "negative coping strategies" by a larger crisis. Using the humanitarian refugee response in Bangladesh and Lebanon as case studies, this presentation will establish how humanitarians construct the "transactional sex worker" through assessments and programming as a subject in need of saving and reform and then explore how humanitarians fail to be accountable to transactional sex workers as a result – especially women and people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).


Executive Producer & Presenter: Dr Peter Finn

Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk

May 11, 202223:32
Exploring racial profiling and lived experiences with Nicole Nyamwiza
Apr 25, 202214:36
Surviving on Your Own; the Campaign to Support Unaccompanied Migrant Youth

Surviving on Your Own; the Campaign to Support Unaccompanied Migrant Youth

This episode is a recording of an event that occurred on Thursday 17th March '22 as part of:


Kingston University Human Rights Festival 2022: In Equality, Not Inequality: Empowering Voices for Human Rights


After long harrowing journeys to the UK, many children seeking safety arrive here alone. The only thing waiting for them is a difficult and draining immigration process. With nobody looking out for them, it's tough. A group of young people known as the YLCSC are fighting to change this. So that all children who arrive in the UK alone get a legal guardian - someone to take them to immigration interviews, make sure they're heard, help them adapt to life in a new country. Guardians give children seeking asylum hope for a brighter future.


The event speakers are:


  1. Ibrahim Soqi Ali Haroun.


  • Hilda Higiro.



This podcast features event, talks, and interviews featuring or organised by members of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.



Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn



Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk

Mar 21, 202227:27
How to become a ​Sustainability Strategist​

How to become a ​Sustainability Strategist​

This episode features a talk and Q&A with Ina Ballik


Ina is a Senior Project Manager of ValuCred at Yunus Environment Hub


She has almost two decades of experience working in the field of sustainability


You can follow Ina on twitter at: @MyPhoenixFTA


This talk was part of the Social Science Cafe series, which runs within  the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London


This talk was by Dr Peter Finn


This podcast is an output of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London


Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk

Mar 09, 202228:13
Putin, Ukraine, and international security: what now?

Putin, Ukraine, and international security: what now?

Putin, Ukraine, and international security: what now? was an online panel event held on 03,03,22. 


The panel featured:








This podcast is an output of the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology of Kingston University, London.


Executive Producer: Dr Peter Finn


Contact: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk


Mar 04, 202242:19