Dr Liam Brolan
Title: Crime and Consequence
This session offers an insight into how criminology can be taught in a way that is both intellectually rigorous and genuinely engaging for students. Drawing on over a decade of university teaching and active research in violent crime and bereavement, Dr Liam Brolan takes a Socratic approach - using real cases and current debates to push students to question assumptions and think critically about crime, offending, and the criminal justice system. Come along for ideas, activities, and conversation about how to teach criminology as both an applied and theoretical subject. Relevant to teachers of Psychology, Sociology, and WJEC Criminology.
Dr Liam Brolan has spent over a decade teaching and supervising research at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His PhD examined the experiences of families who have been bereaved when a loved on is murdered abroad - navigating grief, justice systems, and institutional failure. His peer-reviewed publications cover serious violence and contract murder.
Drawing on that research experience, this session takes teachers through the research process as it actually happens: formulating a question, finding participants, building rapport, designing interviews, navigating ethical approval, and dealing with the methodological challenges that arise when researching sensitive topics involving traumatic lived experience.
This session is for teachers who want a deeper understanding of the research process - and practical insight into how to engage and inspire students undertaking independent research.
Relevant to teachers of Psychology, Sociology, and Criminology, and to EPQ coordinators/supervisors.
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