Academic Profile

I began my academic career as a researcher: first in the value of computers to higher education teaching and learning and then in ethnographic and survey research in mining communities. I then gained an ESRC doctoral scholarship and concentrated on textual analysis, both qualitative and quantitative for my PhD in Law. I completed my PhD whilst working full time as a Cultural Studies lecturer in Leeds from 1992 -96. I then moved to Sheffield University‘s Department of Journalism and joined the Law School in 2001.

Member of the Centre for Criminological Research.

Qualifications

• BA Hons Communication Studies (1st Class) Sheffield Hallam University 1987
• PhD: Accounting for intimate killing: the press, violence and gender Centre for Criminological Studies, University of Sheffield 1995

Research Interests

• Links between represented crime and real crime
• Gender, violence and representation in law, policy and the media
• Intra-familial abuse and violence
• Internet crime

Teaching and Learning

I was Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Law from Autumn 2009 until February 2013. I work hard to link research, teaching and knowledge exchange in a ’virtuous triangle’. My research and teaching are inter-disciplinary and focus on relations between culture, crime, discourse, identity and social regulation. Voluntary counselling, management and research work with a women’s refuge have underwritten two modules on gender and crime and a book in 2009 which informed a successful grant bid in 2010 to the British Academy for a partnership with the centre for Gender, Health and Justice in Cape Town, South Africa, to assess the prosecution of sexual violence. Students benefit directly from visits from Cape Town University academics, knowledge exchanges and a WWW site on international sexual violence.

My modules are intellectually challenging, engaged with contemporary real life issues and offer students the chance to develop skills such as critical thinking; research methods¸ teamwork, evaluation, communication and presentation skills. The content has a strong international component and inter-disciplinarity. Students are encouraged to independently research and add new contributions to VLE resources. Teaching and assessment is varied and feedback from students is always positive and is used to develop and enhance future teaching.

The modules I teach are:

Undergraduate	Postgraduate and MA
Understanding Criminology (Convenor)	Gender and Violence
Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
Internet Crime (Convenor)

Key Publications

Wykes M. and Welsh K. (2009) Violence, Gender and Justice, London Sage

Wykes, M. `Harm, suicide and homicide in cyber space: assessing causality and control' in Jewkes, J and Yar, M. eds. (2009) The Handbook of Internet Crime Willan, Cullompton

Wykes, M. with Harcus, D. `Cyber-terror: construction, criminalisation and control´ in Jewkes, J and Yar, M. eds. (2009) The Handbook of Internet Crime Willan Cullompton

Wykes, M. `Constructing crime: culture, stalking, celebrity and cyber´ in Journal of Crime, Media, Culture August 2007 vol. 3/2

Wykes, M `Cyber-stalking and the media construction of crime´ in Jewkes, Y. (2006) Crime on-line Cullompton Willan pp 128-144

Wykes, M. and Gunter, B. (2005) The Media and the Body: Looks Could Kill , London Sage

Key Grants

Title/Description:	Knowledge Partnership 'Prosecuting Sexual Violence'
Awarding Body:	British Academy
People Involved:	University of Cape Town
Years Funded for:	2011 - 2014
Amount:	£28,000

Title/Description:	Doctoral Studentship 'Men and Violence'
Awarding Body:	White Rose
People Involved:
Years Funded for:	2010 - 2013
Amount:	£42,000

Title/Description:	Doctoral Studentship 'Counter-terror'
Awarding Body:	White Rose
People Involved:
Years Funded for:	2011 - 2014
Amount:	£42,000

Professional Activities and Recognition

• Core Member of CRIMPREV workshop EU project 2007-2008
• Editorial Board Crime, Media, Culture journal, Sage
• Book referee for Sage, OUP and Routledge
• Chair of Management-South East Sheffield Domestic Abuse Project
• External examiner: UG, PG, PhD

Areas of Research Supervision

• News
• Public Disorder
• Gender
• Violence
• Identity
• Internet Crime