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Victoria Knight
Dr Victoria Knight PhD MA BA (Hons) is a senior research fellow for the Community and Criminal Justice Division in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University. She has expertise and research experience across three core areas: 1) digital technologies use in prisons, 2) emotion and criminal justice and 3) young offenders and education. Victoria employs a range and mix of methodologies including qualitative and quantitative. Victoria has extensive research experience for engaging ‘hard to reach’ groups in a range of settings; both community and prison. She strives to adopt an ‘appreciate approach’, taking on board people’s situations and difficulties.
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Email: vknight@dmu.ac.uk
Web: http://http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/health-and-life-sciences/victoria-knight/victoria-knight.aspx
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Derek is interested in how agency and structure combine in social life. In relation to this he has developed the 'theory of social domains' which represents his own attempt to deal with the agency-structure problem. He have also developed a methodological approach called 'adaptive theory'. This attempts to harness the creative synergy between 'received' (or 'preconceived') and 'emergent' theory, but also depends on a close connection between the construction of explanatory theory and the collection of empirical data. Derek’s ongoing interests are in drawing out the links between the 'theory of social domains' and 'adaptive theory' in the context of empirical research. With these objectives in mind he has recently completed studies of self-identity, emotion, intimacy, and power and control in social life. Derek is widely published in these areas.
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Email: dlayder@talktalk.net
Web: http://http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/sociology/people/dlayder