Staff
Staff
Our teaching and research team are from practice-based backgrounds in community, youth work, teaching and criminal justice:
Dr. Anthony Gunter is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Applied Criminology Unit. He is a qualified community and youth work practitioner who has worked for over 15 years in East London with young people and adults in a wide range of community settings. His book ‘Growing up Bad: Black Youth, Road Culture & Badness in an East London Neighbourhood’ (Tufnell Press, 2010), is an ethnographic study examining the role and significance of street culture on the lives of ‘hard to reach’ young black men, and their white and Asian peers, growing up in a deprived East London neighbourhood. Anthony has recently completed an 18 month British Academy funded research project examining post-16 transitions, gang-related violence, and youth crime prevention practice and policing in East London. He is also the Director of the Mayor’s Mentoring Project.
Ian Joseph is a Research Fellow in the School of Law and Social Sciences and Associate Director of the Applied Criminology Unit. He has extensive research experience in both the public and voluntary sectors where he has worked at senior management level and as a direct service provider. Much of his work has focussed on evaluation and applied research questions affecting policy and service development mostly in the areas of serious youth violence, race, crime and gangs, criminal justice, mentoring, policing and developing voluntary/community capacity. Since 2000 he has worked extensively as a consultant working in with a range of public sector and Third Sector organizations such as the Metropolitan Police, Greater London Authority, Youth Justice Board, Audit Commission and several local authorities. His ongoing work on youth related issues is frequently covered by the Press.
Hanif Barker is the Work-Based Learning Lecturer/Tutor in the School of Law and Social Sciences. He is a professionally qualified community and youth work practitioner with more than 18 years direct experience of working with young people and adults within various community settings. He has also worked as a Research Assistant within the ACU. Hanif is currently the Project Manager for the Mayor's Mentoring Project.
Sara Krishnan is the Project Assistant for the Mayors Mentoring Project. Before taking up this role she was employed as a Research Assistant within the ACU.
Clare Choak is a visiting Research Fellow in the Applied Criminology Unit. She has worked with, and researched the lives of, young people for the past ten years in her capacity initially as a BBC community officer and as an academic at several universities since. Clare was part of the largest piece of social policy research ever to be carried out around youth work interventions. During this three year ethnographic enquiry, funded by the Home Office, she took on the role of youth worker and focused specifically on the experiences of young women. Currently, she is also a Senior Lecturer at Greenwich University - running the Youth & Community research programme - and a Research Fellow at Middlesex University working in the area of Serious Group Offending.
