The Critical Research Seminar Series
Critical Research Seminars: Providing a forum for debate, discussion and policy interventions
The Critical Research Seminar Series was established in 2011. The seminars are free events and are designed to provide a platform for academics, activists, students, practitioners, policy makers and members of the public to engage in critical debate and discussion around a range of issues concerning social justice and human rights. The first seminar took place in October 2011 and was delivered by Robert King, one of the Angola 3, who, after a wrongful conviction, spent 29 years in solitary confinement in the US prison system before he was released. Since 2011, a range of speakers, have contributed to the seminar series.
Other videos of speakers
Harriet Wistrich Human Rights Lawyer
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The 2016-17 seminar series included talks from:
- Steve Tombs, Sheila Coleman, Dave Whyte and Pilgrim Tucker speaking on Hillsborough and Grenfell: Struggles for 'Truth, Justice and Accountability'
- Sheila Coleman from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign on the search for truth, justice and accountability after Hillsborough
- Joanne Gilmore, Will Jackson and Helen Monk on community perspectives on the policing of anti-fracking demonstrators in the North West
- Robert King and Albert Woodfox from the Angola 3 on racism and America’s ‘Criminal Injustice System’
- Carol Smart on sexism and misogyny in Criminology and in the criminal justice system
- Thomas Tonatiuth Lopez (in collaboration with Writing on the Wall, the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University) on the Standing Rock Dakota Pipeline protest and the degradation of Native American burial sites
Past Critical Research Seminars
- Transforming Rehabilitation: Privatising probation and the failure of marketisation
- Grenfell Revisited: Struggles for ‘Truth, Justice and Accountability’
- Hillsborough & Grenfell: Struggles for 'Truth, Justice and Accountability'
- Sheila Coleman – The Hillsborough Justice Campaign: The Struggle for Truth, Justice and Accountability
- Carol Smart – 40th Anniversary Women, Crime and Criminology
- Keep Moving: The Policing of the Barton Moss Community Protection
- The Angola 3: The Struggle for Freedom in the USA’s Criminal ‘Injustice’ System
- Thomas Tonatiuh Lopez – International Indigenous Youth Council: Resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock
Faq Items
2015-2016 Seminar Series
2014 International Conference
2013-2014 Seminar Series
2012-2013 Seminar Series
2011-2012 Seminar Series
2011 - Launch of the Critical Research Seminar
Getting here
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Contact us
To register your interest in attending a Critical Research Seminar event, or to be put on our mailing list, please contact us at CCSE@ljmu.ac.uk.