Sarah Page

Senior Lecturer

School of Justice, Security and Sustainability

I am a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology teaching on our undergraduate and post graduate courses. I am also the Co-Director of the Staffordshire University Crime and Society Group.

Prior to working at the University I worked in a strategic management role helping partnerships work more effectively together to tackle poverty, inequalities and crime related issues. My role included assisting in developing cross-organisational mentoring at leadership level. I also commissioned mentoring projects that addressed issues in society. I continue to input into strategic partnerships through research to help with action plan forming and service development and design. I engage students in professional research projects under the umbrella of the Staffordshire University Crime and Society Group.

I also have practitioner experience of working within the Criminal Justice System with offenders (both young offenders and adult offenders) in a therapeutic capacity addressing addiction issues.  I went on to manage and supervise practice of therapeutic practitioners which also involved delivering staff training.  Other services purchased our training including prison staff working on addressing addictive behaviours. 

Professional memberships and activities

  • Member of the British Society of Criminology
  • Higher Education Academy Fellow

Research interests

  • Poverty and Crime
  • Community Safety
  • Addictions (Alcohol, Drugs and Gambling)
  • Victimology
  • Service Development and Design
  • Hate Crime
  • Partnership Working
  • Domestic Violence
  • Criminal Justice
  • Human Trafficking
  • Public Health
  • Education

Teaching

From 2022-2024 I am seconded into the Action Against Poverty and Hardship undergraduate degree course and teaching on modules associated with working in social justice. I also contribute to Criminology dissertation and PhD research supervision.

I am the course leader for a range of mentoring course, including training West Midlands Police policing tutors.

More typically, when teaching withing the Criminology team, I have responsibility for:

Undergraduate BSc Criminology course modules:

  • Working with Drug Users
  • Happy Families: Crime, Abuses and Inequalities
  • Professional Practice Placement
  • Sociology of Education

MA Transnational Organised Crime modules:

  • Trafficking: the Illegal Trade in People, Goods and Services

MSc Criminology course modules:

  • Working in Criminal Justice

Publications

Page, S., Turner, J., Bailey, L., Plimley, S., Bratt, S., McFarlane, K. (2021) Collaboration in conducting research: reflections on a mixed methods online data collection study with sentencers pertaining to their knowledge and experiences of sentencing those with gambling problems committed crimes. ECAN Bulletin, Howard League for Penal Reform, Accessed online (05/11/2021) ECAN webpage

Page, S. (2021) Sentencers’ understanding and treatment of problem gamblers: The report of the Commission on Crime and Problem Gambling. Howard League for Penal Reform, London ISBN 978-1-911114-59-8.

Page, S. (2020) ‘PEOPLE GET KILLED CAUSE OF THERE [THEIR] SKIN. IT CANNOT BE STOPPED’: A MIDLANDS CASE STUDY CONSIDERING EXPERIENCES OF RACISM AMONGST PUPILS IN UK SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND THE COMMUNITY. British Journal of Community Justice. Vol15(3), pp1-18 https://www.mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/articles/people-get-killed-cause-of-there-their-skin.-it-cannot-be-stopped-a-midland

Page, S., Gratton, N., Brindle-Wilkinson, R., Chamberlain, V., Campbell, N. (2020) Informing Prison Theatre Improvement through World Café Conversations with Prisoners. Prison Service Journal Issue 248, pp45-55 https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/psj/prison-service-journal-248

Page, S. (2019) The number of suspected victims of trafficking and slavery in the UK increased by 35% in 2017; of the 5,145 suspected victims from 116 countries, 2,118 were minors. IN Lymes A & Treadwell J (eds) 50 facts about crime that everyone in Britain should know. Polity Press, Bristol pp161-166

Page, S. & Temple-Malt, E. (2018) World Café: a participatory research tool for the criminologist engaged in seeking world views for transformation. IN British Society of Criminology Conference Papers. Vol. 18. PP5-19.

http://www.britsoccrim.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WorldCafe-Page-Temple-Malt.pdf

Page, S. & Temple-Malt, E. (2018) Healthy relationships education offers a real chance to reduce domestic violence IN The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/healthy-relationships-education-offers-a-real-chance-to-reduce-domestic-violence-96070

UK University

StudentCrowd University Awards 2022

for Job Prospects

StudentCrowd University Awards 2022

for Student Satisfaction

Complete University Guide 2022

for Social Inclusion

The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023

for Course Content

StudentCrowd University Awards 2022

of Research Impact is ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Very Considerable’

Research Excellence Framework 2021