Prof Sarah Soppitt

Professor

Department: Social Sciences

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Sarah joined the Criminology team at Northumbria University in 2005 since which time she has undertaken a number of roles including Programme Director and Head of Department of Social Sciences before becoming the Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences.

Sarah became an Associate Professor in 2016. Sarah’s current work focuses upon social enterprise and cooperatives, and their role in developing employment opportunities for those with offending histories, and promoting desistance.

Sarah has developed a number of key partnerships with Police, Probation and Youth Justice, and third sector organisations which support broader teaching, learning and research agendas. Sarah currently leads a multi-disciplinary team of academics with an interest in Policing, and manages the Northumbria Police partnership.

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Key Publications

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‘Safe spaces and places’: the value of design-led methodologies in developing online narratives, Oswald, R., Soppitt, S., Spencer, N., Powell, L., Richardson, C., Coombs, S. 23 Jan 2023, In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Condemned to precarity? Criminalised youths, social enterprise and the sub-precariat, Soppitt, S., Oswald, R., Walker, S. 15 Jun 2022, In: Social Enterprise Journal
Do Flood Mitigation and Natural Habitat Protection Employment Reduce Youth Offending?, Long, M., Oswald, R., Stretesky, P., Soppitt, S. 1 Jun 2019, In: European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
CEPOL Stakeholder Engagement Survey 2018, Rowe, M., Soppitt, S., Francis, P. 16 Jul 2018
Educating the recruited and recruiting the educated: Can the new Police Education Qualifications Framework in England and Wales succeed where others have faltered, Ramshaw, P., Soppitt, S. 1 Dec 2018, In: International Journal of Police Science and Management
The legitimacy of offender management programmes in a post-TR landscape, Rowe, M., Irving, A., Soppitt, S. 9 Apr 2018, In: Safer Communities
An Evaluation of the British Red Cross’ Educational Pilot Project for Young People Serving Reparation Orders, Dresser, P., Irving, A., Soppitt, S. Apr 2015
A Whole City Response to the Use of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) by Young People in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Irving, A., Parker, C., Soppitt, S. Aug 2015
Evaluation of the Positive Pathways Programme for Northumbria Community Rehabilitation Company, Rowe, M., Soppitt, S., Irving, A., Lilley, S. Sep 2015