Dr John Coxhead

Faculty: Business, Computing and Law

School: School of Law and Criminology

Subject Area: Education

I am a visiting research fellow for the Departments of Education and Crime and Justice / Criminology.

Teaching responsibilities

Crime and Justice - visiting lecturer. Doctor of Education - visiting lecturer, doctoral supervision. External marking for undergraduate criminology with Dr Jon Vagg, UEL.

Professional interests

I graduated in English and History from the University of Keele in 1989. I was inspired by the teaching of Francis Doherty and John Eggleston and trained to teach, completing a Cert. Ed. also at Keele. As with all great plans, though, I was offered a job with the Police Service and took it.  After working full time for 10 years, including carrying out duties as a policing trainer,  I returned to Keele for a research masters in Criminology, researching Plural Policing and Public Consent. I began some visiting lecturing at the University of Derby in Crime and Policy modules. After another 5 years working full time in police management I completed doctoral research at the University of Derby researching Improving Performance in Race and Diversity. I began teaching on the Doctor of Education Programme at Derby and became module leader in Prison Studies and Criminal Justice Systems for ICS, as well as editing criminology distance learning materials and lecturing on Policing and Law programmes at Nottingham.  I am now a visiting research fellow and lecturer here at the University of Derby and support the following programmes: Crime and Justice, Criminology and Education (doctoral supervision).

Research interests

My research has looked at justice as a public good and the pressures of commodification and pluralism upon policing by consent. The growth of private security in public places was explored through interviewing MPs, Ministers, security industry reps and senior policing leaders. Other research has looked at the issues facing Romany Gypsies, Irish Travellers and Roma Gypsies in the UK and Europe. This research explored the limitations of training in the justice sector to tackle bigotry and racism and made recommendations to improve professional practice. Key issues identified included the non-reliance on diversity training but rather investing in workplace leadership and performance to enable cultural change. I am now also involved in exploring the causes of youth offending (why some do and why some don't) and effective interventions (what works) as well as intelligence doctrine development in travelling criminality. I am interested in community cohesion, policing by consent and how justice is accessible to diversity and difference within communities.

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

Fellow of the Institute for Learning (IfL); Advisor, National Centre for Citizenship and the Law (NCCL); British Advisor, Association of European Roma Law Enforcement Member of the Centre for Educational Research and Professional Practice - University of Derby Founding and steering group member Pride not Prejudice Conferences (www.pnp.org) Regional and national representative, ACPO Gypsy and Traveller portfolio, member British Society of Criminology.

Recent Conferences

Coxhead, J. (2007) National Federation of Gypsy Liaison Groups  

Coxhead, J. (2006) 'Beyond Race and Diversity' Skills for Security National Conference, London

Coxhead, J. (2006) ESRC International Conference on Racism and Training, Hayes Centre

Coxhead, J. (2006) 'Integrating Race Equality' Association of Police Authorities, London

Coxhead, J. (2005) 'Policing and Social Cohesion' Gypsy and Traveller Law Reform Conference, London

Coxhead, J. (2005) Travellers and Social Inclusion, Nexus Conferences, London

Coxhead, J. (2005) 'Pan European policing and Gypsies - How difficult is this?' International Conference on Xenophobia, Diplomatic Academy, Vienna

Coxhead, J (2005) Tackling racism towards Gypsies and Travellers, Nottingham Trent University

Coxhead, J. (2005) 'The police are not our police' University of Newcastle GLS International Conference

Coxhead, J. (2004) 'Rethinking tackling prejudice towards Gypsies and Travellers', University of Cambridge

(2009) Presentation: 'Policing Diversity' to NPIA Race and Diversity Programme (Bramshill) 'Diversity for Executive Leaders Programme', 9th September 2009

(2009) Conference Paper: 'The need for a Pan-European approach to policing services for Roma' The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Strategic Police Matters Unit International Experts Conference, Palais Hofburg, Vienna, 28th September 2009

Additional Interests and Activities

Editor, Criminological Research Methods, ICS (2007)

Media experience

BBC The Politics Show, Community Cohesion and Travellers October 14, 2007,BBC Radio Derby, Youth Crime, October 11, 2007 BBC Radio Essex, Police diversity training, October 8, 2007. Smooth Radio, Breakfast Show, The Last Bastion of Racism, October 1, 2007. RAM FM, Policing and racism,  September 28, 2007  BBC Radio Derby Crime and Justice, BBC Radio Derby Youth Crime March 20, 2007 Peak FM Perceptions of Youth Crime March 19, 2007, BBC Radio 3 Counties Travellers and Justice May 14, 2006 BBC Radio York Community tensions and Travellers  July 15, 2005

Undergraduate qualifications

• BA (Hons) History and English, University of Keele

Postgraduate qualifications

• Cert. Ed, University of Keele
• M.Phil, University of Keele
• Ed.D, University of Derby

Research qualifications

• M.Phil. Plural Policing and Public Consent, University of Keele
• Ed.D. Improving Policing Performance in Race and Diversity, University of Derby

Research posts

Institution	Project	Dates
Home Office	Moving Forward: how communities can be engaged	2004-2005

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