Ms Jane Drapkin

Job: Lecturer in Criminology

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: N/A

E: jane.drapkin@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Jane is a lecturer in Criminology and is undertaking a PhD in the prevention of identity based violence. Jane has worked for international NGOs in conflict affected countries including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Eritrea, and has delivered genocide education on the Holocaust, the Srebrenica genocide and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Research group affiliations

Institute for Research in Criminology and Community and Social Justice

Research interests/expertise

Jane’s PhD explores communities that prevent identity-based violence in contexts of genocide, civil war and communal unrest. 

Areas of teaching

Jane has taught on a number of criminology modules. She is currently module leader for International Perspectives (third year undergraduate) and Genocides and mass atrocities (second year undergraduate).

Qualifications

MA Politics of International Resources and Development, University of Leeds
BA Chemistry, Lincoln College, University of Oxford.

Courses taught

International Perspectives, Genocides and mass atrocities, Dissertation Supervision.

Membership of external committees

Member of Advisory Board for Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Membership of professional associations and societies

Member of The International Association of Genocide Scholars

Conference attendance

Panel member at Peace, Equality and Social Justice and SDG16 Conference, De Montfort University May 2022

ORCID number

0000-0002-3080-9308