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Written by Dr Caroline Miles<\/strong><\/h6>\n

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I received Diversifying the Curriculum funding in 2025\/26 to pay for a Guest Lecturer from the Centre for Hate Studies on the PGT Criminology course unit CRIM70552\u00a0Understanding Violence. The Centre for Hate Studies<\/a>, hosted by Leicester University,\u00a0\u2018shapes policy and practice by enabling professionals across different sectors to\u00a0engage with diverse communities, to support victims and to tackle hate.\u00a0 Driven by a\u00a0desire to effect lasting change within disadvantaged communities, the Centre for Hate\u00a0Studies places co-creation with\u00a0 marginalised victims at the heart of its research design,\u00a0analysis and recommendations, thereby making the ‘hard-to-reach\u2019 much more\u00a0reachable\u2019.<\/p>\n

The course Understanding Violence<\/em> adopts a case study approach through which\u00a0students explore various forms of violence, including\u00a0 femicide, domestic violence and\u00a0abuse, filial violence, online harms, modern slavery, and hate crimes. The course\u00a0focuses on the links\u00a0 between how forms of violence are defined, counted, understood\u00a0and responded to, and a crucial theme running through the course is\u00a0 intersectionality,\u00a0requiring students to develop an informed and critical understanding of how people\u2019s\u00a0experiences of violence, as both\u00a0 victims and offenders, are shaped by intersecting\u00a0social identities including gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability and social-economic\u00a0status. The assessment for this course is a Policy Briefing, in which students focus on\u00a0one form of violence and produce a report\u00a0 outlining the nature and importance of the\u00a0problem, existing evidence on the form of violence and how it is understood, the\u00a0limitations or\u00a0 current responses, and making recommendations for policy to effectively\u00a0address the issue.<\/p>\n

The guest lecturer, Emily Wertans, works at the Centre for Hate Studies as a researcher\u00a0and has extensive experience of writing policy\u00a0 briefing papers and manifestos. In her\u00a0workshop, she explored with the students the multiple forms of harm and violence\u00a0experienced by people as a result of their perceived personal characteristics, including\u00a0ethnicity, disability, gender identity and sexuality, and also presented findings from her\u00a0doctoral research on the experiences of homeless people. This content was very\u00a0powerful (including a video in\u00a0 which victims of hate crime shared their experiences) and\u00a0highly relevant to the course. Emily also spent part of the workshop discussing\u00a0 the\u00a0purpose and style of policy reports, and brought with her hard copies of a manifesto\u00a0and a policy briefing paper published by the\u00a0 Centre for Hate Studies for every student.\u00a0This was incredibly helpful to the students at a point of the course when they were all\u00a0beginning to think about their assessment and how to construct, present and narrate a\u00a0policy-focused briefing paper.<\/p>\n

Incorporating Emily\u2019s workshop into the course was highly valuable, both from a topic\u00a0and content focus \u2013 exploring the experiences of\u00a0 violence of a range of diverse and\u00a0marginalised individuals \u2013 and also providing students with a first hand insight into the\u00a0purpose and\u00a0 production of policy briefing papers addressing harm experienced by\u00a0diverse people. This enabled students to understand the importance,\u00a0 purpose and\u00a0approach to writing policy briefing papers.<\/p>\n

Although no formal evaluation was conducted, the students were highly engaged in\u00a0Emily\u2019s workshop and commented that they found it\u00a0 very interesting, powerful and\u00a0helpful. The manifesto and policy briefing papers that Emily gave the students were\u00a0valuable in their\u00a0 assessment preparations, and the standard of assessments produce\u00a0by students was exceptionally high this year.<\/p>\n

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