Iain Channing

Academic profile

Dr Iain Channing

Lecturer in Criminology
School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Iain's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 04: SDG 4 - Quality Education

About Iain

Iain Channing is a lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice and his research specialises in policing in historical and contemporary contexts. He has published three books which include the monographs The Police and the Expansion of Public Order Law, and Historical Criminology (with David Churchill and Henry Yeomans), and the edited collection Leading the Police (with Kim Stevenson and David Cox). He has also contributed to other academic books and has articles published in The Annual Review of CriminologyThe Howard JournalPolicing, Safer Communities, and Law, Crime and History. He is co-editor-in-chief of The Journal of Historical Criminology and director of the Cultural and Heritage Exchange (CHEx). He has been invited to present his research at guest lectures across Europe and has also ran public order training days for the police. He has taught at the University of Plymouth since 2015 and is currently the School of Society and Culture lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. His teaching incorporates aspects of his research interests. His stage 3 module 'Social Change and Justice' applies an historical lens to criminological issues, while at stage 1 and 2 he runs forensic modules which focus on police practice and theory. These modules focus on criminal investigation and forensic criminology and make use of innovative and practical learning scenarios in the university's state of the art crime suite. 

Teaching

Module leader:
  • CRM6003 Social Change and Justice (stage 3)
  • CRM5006 Forensic Criminology: Social Investigations (stage 2) 
  • CRM4004 Forensic Criminology: Police Investigations (stage 1)
  • CRIM748 Crime, Culture and Control (MSc)
  • CRIM732 Criminology Dissertation (MSc)
Also teaches on: 
  • SOC6000 Dissertation (stage 3)
  • CRM5009MX Crime, Harm and Culture (stage 2)
  • CRIM746 Criminological Research (MSc)

Contact Iain

Room 114, 19 Portland Villas, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 585624