Dr Tina Patel
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr. Tina G. Patel completed her first degree (awarded 1999) in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University. Having been awarded funding from a fully competitive scheme, Tina spent 3½ years at the University of Sheffield studying for the qualification of PhD, in a study looking at race, identity and child adoption policy (awarded 2004). She was then appointed as a research fellow for a project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, at Nottingham Trent University, looking at school exclusion and successful youth transitions within African-Caribbean communities (completed 2004). In September 2004, Tina returned to Liverpool John Moores University to take up a post as a lecturer in Criminology and Sociology. Tina joined the University of Salford in September 2008, as a lecturer in Criminology (with a specialism in violence). In August 2014, Tina was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer. Her research and teaching interests relate to ‘race’ and racism, exclusion, police and violent behaviour.
Areas of Research
'Race'
Racism
Ethnicity
Crime
Justice
Victims
Victimisation
Discrimination
Post-race racism
Discrimination
Areas of Supervision
'Race'
Racism
Ethnicity
Crime
Justice
Victims
Victimisation
Discrimination
Post-race racism
Discrimination
Qualifications
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Sociology
2000 - 2004 -
Criminal Justice: Class 2.1 (Hons)
1996 - 1999