{"id":4031,"date":"2018-07-02T14:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:38","slug":"lecturers-in-criminology-win-teaching-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/07\/02\/lecturers-in-criminology-win-teaching-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecturers in Criminology win teaching prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School is delighted to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/l-m\/mills-michael.html\">Michael Mills<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/t-v\/van-hellemont-elke.html\">Elke Van Hellemont<\/a> have been awarded the Social Sciences Seminar Leader Teaching Prize 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The University Teaching Prizes are awarded annually to recognise and reward outstanding achievement in relation to teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Elke and Michael, both Lecturers in Criminology, were awarded the prize for their work on SO505 \u2013 Sociology of Crime and Deviance, which aims to provide students with a critical understanding of the nature and extent of crime and deviance in contemporary society, and the main ways in which they can be explained and controlled.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is a past student of the University, receiving a distinction for a Masters in Methods of Social Research and recently completing a PhD in Criminology that focused on the American phenomenon of &#8216;Doomsday&#8217; prepping. Elke has been at Kent since 2016, having completed a PhD in Criminology at KU Leuven in Belgium about the Seduction of Gangs. Her research centres around gangs, cybercrime, cultural criminology and qualitative methods.<\/p>\n<p>They will be awarded their prize by the Vice-Chancellor at a ceremony in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School is delighted to announce that Michael Mills and Elke Van Hellemont have been awarded the Social Sciences Seminar Leader Teaching Prize 2018. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/07\/02\/lecturers-in-criminology-win-teaching-prize\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":4033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,10482,124,139979],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4037,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}