Senior Lecture Maggie Wykes

School of Law

Honorary Professor

M.Wykes@sheffield.ac.uk

Bartolomé House

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Senior Lecture Maggie Wykes
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND

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 School of Journalism, Media and Communication and joined the Law School in 2001.

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

Publications

Books

Wykes M & Welsh K (2008) Violence, gender and justice. Sage Publications Ltd.
Wykes M & Gunter B (2005) The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill. SAGE Publications Ltd.
Wykes M & Gunter B (2005) The media and body image. Sage Publications Ltd.
Gunter B, Harrison J & Wykes M (2003) Violence on television. Lawrence Erlbaum.
Wykes M (2001) News, crime and culture. London: Pluto Press.
Waddington DP, Wykes M & Critcher C (1991) Split at the seams?. Open Univ Pr.

Journal articles

Wykes M & Artz L (2019) What’s law got to do with it? Comparing the failure to deter or convict rapists in the United Kingdom and South Africa. International Review of Victimology. View this article in WRRO
Wykes M, Ellis A & Sloan J (2013) 'Moatifs' of Masculinity: The Stories Told About 'Men' In British Newspaper Coverage of the Raol Moat Case. Crime, Media and Culture, 9 (1), 3-21.
Wykes M & Jewkes Y (2012) Reconstructing the Sexual Abuse of Children: 'Cyber-Paeds', Panic and Power. Sexualities, 15 (8).
Wykes M (2007) Constructing crime: Culture, stalking, celebrity and cyber. Crime, Media, Culture, 3(2), 158-174.
Wykes M (2005) Book Review: Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and in Film. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 1(2), 233-237.
Wykes M (2000) Website Review: BBC.CO.UK: a review of Auntie online. Journalism Studies, 1(3), 513-518.
Wykes M (1999) Cultural methodologies.. EUR J COMMUN, 14(3), 423-425.
WADDINGTON D & WYKES M (1989) VOTING WITH THEIR FEET. NEW STATESMAN SOC, 2(31), 26-27.

Chapters

Wykes M (2017) Social Media, Cyberspace and Sex Crime: Deviant and Democratising Spaces In Sanders T (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Sex Offences and Sex Offenders Oxford University Press
Ellis A & Wykes M (2013) Bringing the boys back home: Re-engendering criminology, Values in Criminology and Community Justice (pp. 77-92).
Wykes M & Harcus D (2010) Cyber Terror: Construction, Criminalisation and Control In Jewkes Y & Yar M (Ed.), Handbook of Internet Crime (pp. 214-227). Willan Pub
Wykes M (2010) Harm, Suicide and Homicide in Cyber Space: Assessing Casualty and Control In Jewkes Y & Yar M (Ed.), Handbook of Internet Crime (pp. 369-390). Willan Pub
Wykes M (2003) September 11th 2002: Reporting, Remembering, Reconstructing 9/11/2001 In Chermak, S , . Bailey, F. & Brown, M (Ed.), Media Representations of 9/11 Praeger Publishing
Wykes M (1999) The burrowers: News about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas, Environmental Risks and the Media (pp. 73-90). Taylor and Francis
Wykes M (1998) A family affair: sex, the press and the Wests In Carter, C. , Branson, G. & Allen, S. (Ed.), News, Gender and Power London: Routledge.
Wykes M (1995) Passion Marriage and Murder: analysing the press discourse In Dobash R., Dobash R., and Noaks, L (Ed.), Gender and Crime Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Hebron S. Wykes M. (1991) Gender Inequality in Mining Communities In Cross M. Payne G. eds. (Ed.), Social Inequality and the Enterprise Culture London: Macmillan.
Wykes M (1990) News. New Technology and Communication In Williams N. Hartley P. (Ed.), Technology in Human Communication London: Pinter.
Atkinson R () Shades of Deviance Routledge

Conference proceedings papers

Wykes M (1998) A family affair - The British press, sex and the Wests. NEWS, GENDER AND POWER (pp 233-247)

Research group

Areas of Research Supervision

News
Public Disorder
Gender
Violence
Identity
Internet Crime

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

Teaching interests

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.

Teaching activities

The modules I teach are:

Undergraduate

Understanding Criminology
Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice (Convenor)
Internet Crime (Convenor)

Postgraduate

Gender and Violence

Professional activities and memberships

Core Member of CRIMPREV workshop EU project 2007-2008
Book referee for Sage, OUP and Routledge
Grant application referee ESRC
Trustee Sheffield Women’s Refuge
External examiner: UG, PG, PhD