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Mrs Ravinderjit Kaur Briah

Job: Associate Professor

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

Address: 51Âþ»­, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 257 7827

E: rbriah@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Ravinderjit Briah is an Associate Professor and Project Manager for the suite of Community Justice Learning (Probation) programmes as well as the Masters degree in Community and Criminal Justice Leadership. She joined the Community and Criminal Justice Division at 51Âþ»­ in 2003. Prior to joining 51Âþ»­, Ravinderjit worked for the National Probation Service West Midlands and worked in a variety of roles as a Policy Advisor in Race for a City Council and crime and community justice issues across the voluntary, statutory and community sector. Ravinderjit has taught across the suite of Programmes in the Division. She has experience teaching Undergraduate, Postgraduate and vocational students having taught on the Policing, Probation, Criminology and Masters courses based at 51Âþ»­.

Research group affiliations

Institute for Research in Criminology and Community and Social Justice

Key research outputs

  • Eden-Barnard, J., Briah, R., Dunkley, C., Neal, H., Williams, S., Brown, D., and Morrison, R. (2023) Professional Curiosity: How do you know what you don’t know? Probation Quarterly 28: 40-44

Peer-reviewed Article

  • Tangen, J & Briah, R (2018) ‘The revolving door of reform: Professionalism and the future of probation services in England and Wales’, Probation Journal 65(2): pp 135-151 

Research interests/expertise

  • Project Management
  • Minority Perspectives
  • Criminal Justice Policy & Practice
  • Women and the Criminal Justice System
  • Migration
  • Human Trafficking
  • Mental Health /Mentally Disordered Offenders
  • Substance Misuse
  • Hate crime

Areas of teaching

  • Probation Programme
  • Crime and Criminal Behaviour
  • Penal Policy
  • Criminal Justice System

Qualifications

  • PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner
  • MSc Criminology (University of Leicester)
  • LL.B Law (Hons) (University of Leicester)

Courses taught

  • Community Justice / Probation Programme
  • BA (Hons) in Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Policing programmes
  • MA Criminology

Membership of external committees

Probation Institute, Academic Advisory Group Member, 2022 - current

West Midlands Police, Out of Court Disposal Scrutiny Panel Member, 2022- current