Staff

Name: Paul Kiff

Position: Graduate Research Training Skills Core Modules and M.Res Programme Leader

Location: EB1.43, Docklands Campus

Telephone: 0208 223 2450

Email: p.kiff@uel.ac.uk

Contact address: UEL Graduate School, Docklands Campus, 4-6 University Way, London E16 2RD

Brief biography:

Paul was formerly director of research in a wide range of public sector organisations, charities, national campaigning bodies and private consultancy companies. These include major Local Authorities, the Probation Service and the College of Health. He is an active current contributor to national crime policy and general research methodology debates inside and outside Government.

Paul is former leader of a number of public sector research membership associations, including the National Probation Research Association and the Social Services Research Group. He was, for a number of years, the paid Director of the British Society of Criminology and paid Secretary to the Penal affairs Consortium. In the latter roles he was the organiser of a wide range ofnational an international  conferences and projects providing knowledge exchange opportunities between the academic and public sectors. He has served on research committees of the Chief Probation officers Association, the Association of Directors of Social Services, the Department of Health and the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Activities/responsible for:

Programme Director - Graduate Research Skills Training Programme and Master in Research (M.Res).

Teaching:

Graduate Research Skills Training Programme
M.Res Programme

Research:

Paul Kiff is a leading exponent of active academic knowledge exchange with the public and voluntary sector. His work is often highly confidential and so rarely results in academic publication but reports of his various projects are available for scrutiny if required. He currently holds a part-time visiting scholarship at the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University to study the costs and benefits of Justice Reinvestment.

Research projects completed in the last 5 years include:

• Completion of a pilot study for comparing the performance of UK Universities (for THES)
• A study investigating the impact of NHS IT strategy upon UK Social Services (for the Association of Directors of Social Services)
• An evaluation of the social benefits arising from the Macmillan Care social support grant budget (for Macmillan Cancer Care)
• Evaluation of governance arrangements for the Brook Advisory group of charities (for Brook Advisory Centres)
• Evaluation of the Richmond Domestic violence sanctuary scheme (for London Borough of Richmond)
• A national study of factors in the prevalence of petty insurance fraud (For AVIVA insurance)
• A study to identify means of evidencing the virtues of UK Justice Reinvestment (for the UK Parliamentary Justice Select Committee).

Projects currently in hand include:

• A study to evaluate the fiduciary probity of a leading overseas development charity

Other current scholarly activities:

• Advice to the House of Commons Justice Select Committee
• Board member of and criminological adviser to the Criminal Justice Alliance
• Member of the Academy of Experimental Criminology
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
• Secretary to the Home Office and Ministry of Justice Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics Users' Group
• Research advisor to a leading east London voluntary organisation functioning as a community anchor model for the UK Government “Big Society”.

Keywords:

Scientific Crime Policy Research

Last updated: July 2010

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