Professional interests
Member of organising committee for the British Society of Criminology
annual conference The Challenge of Comparative Crime and Justice,
held at Bangor University in 2003
Member of editorial board of International Journal of Rural Studies.
ISSN 1023-2001
Visiting lecturer on the Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Resource Management
at Gramodaya College and Research Institute, Uttar Pradesh, India. This
course is validated by MJP Rohilkand University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.
Validator of the BA (Hons) Criminal Justice and BA Youth Justice programmes
at North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, Wrexham.
Validator of the BA (Hons) Criminology at University of Wales Aberystwyth.
Referee for book proposals for Palgrave Macmillan.
Referee for research proposals to the Economic and Social Research
Council
Rapporteur for End of Award reports for the Economic and Social Research
Council.
Referee for papers submitted to Sociological Review
Recent conferences and seminars
2005 ‘Spatial regulation of begging in South
Asia’ American Society of Criminology annual conference, Toronto.
2003 ‘Community, consensus and conflict in
rural India’, presentation made at the Third International Convention
of Asia Scholars, Singapore (British Academy conference grant, £643).
2003 British Society of Criminology annual conference,
University of Wales Bangor, UK.
Presentation:
‘Indian discourses on crime and deviance’. Chair of two
sessions: ‘Tackling anti-social behaviour’ and ‘Fear
of crime’.
2002 American Society of Criminology annual conference,
Chicago, USA. Presentation: ‘Law and order in North India: perspectives
on village and jungle’
2002 Association of Asian Studies annual conference,
Washington DC, USA. Poster presentation entitled: ‘Keeping the
jungle out’.
2008 ‘Begging and marginality in the Mediterranean: Spain and Tunisia’ XV World Congress of the International Society for Criminology Barcelona, July