Professor Kieran McCartan

Position:

Professor of Criminology & Health

Department:

HAS - Health and Social Sciences

Telephone:

+441173282354

Email:

Kieran.Mccartan@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Professor McCartan completed his first degree in Psychology at Queen's University Belfast (2001), before moving to the University of Leicester to do an MSc in Criminology at the Scarman Centre (2002), and a PhD in the Department of Psychology (2008). Kieran joined UWE as a Lecturer in 2007 and was promoted to Professor of Criminology in 2018. While at UWE, Kieran has been the Criminology Program leader (2010 - 2014), Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Unit (2010 - 2012) and the Associate Head of Department for Sociology & Criminology (2015 - 2016). Currently, Kieran is the leader of the Social and Public Policy Research Group at UWE.

Professor McCartan has a track record of public, academic and professional engagement  on a range of Criminological, Psyvchological and Public Health issues including, 

• Community understandings of sexual harm.
• EpiCrim (Public Health & Criminal Justice)approaches to sexual harm in adults, children, and Children and Young People.
• The use of registries and community disclosure schemes for people convicted of a sexual offence.
• New technology and sexual harm..
• The risk management and integration of people who have committed sexual abuse into the community.
• Developmental and life course pathways into offending behaviour (including ACEs and trauma-informed care approaches).
• Trauma and trauma-informed practice in criminal justice.
• Public health approaches to criminal justice and risk management.
• Understanding and responding to Sibling Sexual Behaviour and Abuse (SSB-A).

He has experience of qualitative, quantitative and mixed method research from funders including EU (Horizon 2020), Ministry of Justice, Cabinet Office, Public Health England, ESRC, The Leverhulme Trust, Bristol City Council & Wiltshire probation. He has previously co-led an ESRC nationally based ESRC-funded Knowledge Exchange Network on the limited disclosure of sex offender information (2012), an international Leverhulme Trust-funded network on sex offender management (2014 - 16) and was involved in a Council of Europe project examining and developing recommendations around the assessment, management, and integration of people who have committed sexual offences (2019 - 21). Currently, he is working with the EU, as part of their network of experts, on the development of research and policy linked to the prevention of sexual abuse in childhood.

Professor McCartan has a number of academic outputs, including, 185+ academic publications (Journal Articles, Books, Chapters, External Research Reports & Professional/Practitioner publications); 300+ blogs; received approximately 1 million pounds in external funding; & has given 280+ external presentations (Conference Papers & Keynotes); & has taken part in 55+ media interviews nationally as well as internationally.

Area of expertise

Esteem

• Advisor to the European Committee on Crime Problems, Council for Penological Co-operation, Council of Europe.
• Member of the Child Abuse Prevention network, Joint Research Committee, European Commission
• Chair of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse (NOTA),
• Board member of the Risk Management Authority, Scotland
• Associate CSAAP member, HMPPS
• Member of APPL, HMPPS
• Chair of the Violence Against Women and Children special interest group, Confederation of European Probation (CEP).
• Member of the editorial boards of Sexual Abuse & Sexual Aggression ;
• Member of the ESRC peer review college.
• Chair & board member of Circles Southwest.
• Member of the Executive Research Advisory Panel, Bravehearts Inc;
• A visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota (April 2013), San Jose State University (November 2014) & Griffith University (Summer 2015).

Selected funded research projects

• Work package lead on Prevent to Protect project, Horizon 2020 funded (Co-applicant)
• Feasibility study of the health and wellbeing outcomes of Operation Topaz, BNSSG ICB (Principal applicant)
• Evaluation of Project Vanguard, BNSSG ICB (Principal investigator)
• Evaluation of Rockpool trauma informed training, Avon & Somerset OPCC/VRU (Principal applicant)
• Understanding the trauma informed practices and workplace of the People Department in South Gloucester Council, South Gloucester Council (Principal applicant)
• Research into Violence Against Women and Girls in public spaces for North Somerset & Somerset Councils (Principal Applicant)
• An evaluation of Circles of Support and Accountability (South Australia) and the Reintegration of Indigenous Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act perpetrators (Queensland) . ANROWS. (Co-applicant)
• Evaluation of the Lighthouse victim care pathway. Avon & Somerset Police. (Principal Investigator)
• Evaluation of Predictive Analytics in Policing. A joint-funded PhD with Avon & Somerset Police and UWE. (Co-applicant)

Publications

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