Joe is wearing a grey and black jacket with a light blue shirt underneath. He has short grey hair and some facial stubble.

Dr Joe Stevens

Senior Lecturer
School of Law
joe.stevens@uwl.ac.uk

I hold a first-class law degree (LLB Hons) and a Master’s degree (LLM) in International Criminal Law and Security, both of which I obtained from the University of Northampton. I have a PhD from the University of Bedfordshire in which I examined the lack of judicial review for those individuals subjected to United Nations sanctions over alleged connections to terrorism.

I have a teaching qualification for Higher Education and I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Prior to my academic career, I was firstly in the Army, serving in several roles within the Royal Military Police. After leaving the Army I worked as a police officer for several years, again carrying out several different roles including being a nationally trained detective.
Interests

I have several academic interests such as crime and criminal justice, sentencing, and prison policy. I am also interested in terrorism, international law, and human rights and how the tension between these competing issues is dealt with by both the State and the wider international community. I am a member of Justice and regularly attend their conferences. I have led the ‘Ban the Box’ campaign at Bloomsbury Institute which has led to the removal of the need of students to disclose previous criminal convictions whilst applying to study. I also presented on this issue at several organisations and conferences.

Teaching

I have taught on HE for over ten years and on many different modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Research

  • Research and publications

    Currently submitted paper for review ‘Who watches the watchers’ an examination of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 and the lack of regulation around the use of private investigators. (July 2022)

    Contributed to paper by Dr Richard Lang to the parliamentary committee for information on the legal effect of leaving the EU. (2017)

    Paper submitted to the European Journal of International Law ‘The Need for International Judicial Review in UN Targeted Terrorism Cases’.

    PhD thesis submitted and published in September 2013.

    JTR Volume 3, Issue 2 - Autumn 2012: Implementing ‘Targeted’ UN Sanctions in the UK: Is Freezing of Terrorist Assets Giving Fundamental Rights the Cold Shoulder? Joe Stevens

    Journal of Terrorism Research Volume 2, Issue 3: No New Weapons for the UN Ombudsperson? (2011) Joe Stevens

  • Conferences

    2021 Bloomsbury TLC ‘Social Calibration’ and why what’s important to you is important to me

    2020 Invitation to present at international conference in Dubai on HE (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

    2020 Bloomsbury TLC Joint presentation Peer Learning Leaders Cross subject

    2019 Paper on ‘What’s in for me? Examination of Peer Learning and Leadership Module’ Bloomsbury Institute TLC ‘Bridging the Inclusivity Gap

    2019 Paper on ‘Leadership modules and Peer Learning’ presented at the international PEER/PASS conference Loughborough University

    2019 Paper on ‘Is it their own work? Commissioning and Contract Mills, signs and symptoms’ at TURNITIN Excellence on Campus conference at University of London & University of Liverpool

    2019 Association of Learning Technologists (ALT) on ‘Proof of Purchase’ An examination of commissioning and contract cheating within HE at Edinburgh Conference on Technologies within HE

    2018 Paper ‘PAL’s, embedding a new PAL program within IHE problems and solutions’ at IHE Conference

    2018 Paper ‘Ban the Box and the approach of LSBM’ to UCAS Admissions Managers Forum and Guild He forum

    2017 Paper ‘A proposal for an International Judicial Review Mechanism’ at Canterbury Christchurch University

    2016 Paper ‘ban the box, why removing the UCAS question is not enough’ at the University of Northampton ‘Inequalities in Education’ conference

    2015 Paper on ‘Passing off the work of others, pitfalls problems and purposeful approaches’ LSBM TLC

    2014 Paper on ‘ban the box’ at LSBM TLC

    2012 Paper on Further Developments of International Sanctions and the Individual at UCC

    2011 Paper on International Judicial Review and International Law, University College Cork

  • Research degree supervision

    • Criminal law & Criminal justice
    • Prison & Sentencing
    • Criminal Process & Litigation
    • Evidence

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