Dr Jamie Irving BA (Hons), MRes, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Summary
Jamie is a senior lecturer in the Department of Law and Criminology at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. My Doctoral thesis is entitled, How does AA’s 12 Steps and membership of the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous work for addressing drinking problems? Published work includes, researcher and co-author of the UK Life in Recovery Survey 2015, and an evaluation of Right Turn Veterans project (Addaction: Forces in Mind Trust). James co-authored of 'A Social Capital Approach to Assisting Veterans Through Recovery and Desistance Transitions in Civilian Life' 2015. Currently Jamie and SHU colleagues are engaged in evaluating the Intuitive Recovery programme for long-term opiate users. Currently managing a European Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Area Network on Illicit Drugs (ERANID) study, Recovery Pathways (REC-PATH).
About
I studied criminology at Sheffield Hallam and graduated in 2007. From 2007-9 I attended the University of Manchester to study part-time for a Masters degree (MRes) in socio-legal and criminological research methods. During the period 2008-11 I was employed as a research assistance on a Nuffield funded research project that investigated medical-negligence claims. I also worked part-time for King's College London, investigating young people's pyscho-social function in young offender institutions. In 2009 I also began teaching criminology at SHU, as an associate lecturer, in addition, in a similar role I also taught at Leeds Metropolitan University.
In 2011 I won an ESRC scholarship to study for a PhD in criminology, focusing my doctoral research on desistance from criminality and recovery from alcoholism amongst a long-term abstinent cohort of members of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Criminological theory
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ methods
Drugs and alcohol
Teaching
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Managed a European Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Area Network on Illicit Drugs (ERANID) study, Recovery Pathways (REC-PATH).
Recovery from drug and alcohol addiction/problems. Desistance; factors associated with ending offending behaviour.
Course leader for Criminology and sociology combined Honours Degree
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Ï㽶ÊÓƵ under taken in related fields of addiction and desistance.
ERANID, Professor Wouter Vanderplasschen of Belgium is a senior researcher in the field of substance abuse treatment and recovery. Dr Jessica De Maeyer is the director of the expertise centre on Quality of Life (E-QUAL) at Ghent University College since 2014.
Publications
Journal articles
Andersson, C., Wincup, E., Best, D., & Irving, J. (2020). . Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy.
Best, D., Savic, M., Bathish, R., Edwards, M., Irving, J., Cano, I., & Albertson, K. (2018). Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.
Edwards, M., Best, D., Irving, J., & Andersson, C. (2018). . Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 1-22.
Best, D., Vanderplasschen, W., Van de Mheen, D., De Maeyer, J., Colman, C., Vander Laenen, F., ... Nagelhout, G.E. (2018). . Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.
Best, D., Irving, J., Andersson, C., & Edwards, M. (2017). Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery, 12 (1), 27-36.
Best, D., Irving, J., Collinson, B., Andersson, C., & Edwards, M. (2016). . Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 35 (1), 2-15.
Best, D., Irving, J., & Albertson, K. (2016). . Addiction Theory and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, 25 (1), 1-10.
Albertson, K., Irving, J., & Best, D. (2015). . The Howard Journal Of Criminal Justice, 54 (4), 384-396.
Book chapters
Irving, J. (2016). . In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming Identities. (pp. 195-228). Bristol: Policy Press:
Reports
Andersson, C., Best, D., Irving, J., Edwards, M., Banks, J., Mama-Rudd, A., & Hamer, R. (2018). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ for Alcohol Ï㽶ÊÓƵ UK.
Albertson, K., Best, D., Pinkney, A., Murphy, T., Irving, J., & Stevenson, J. (2017). . Sheffield: Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Albertson, K., Best, D., Irving, J., Murphy, T., Buckingham, S., Morton, G., ... Chaggar, A. (2016). . Sheffield: Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Best, D., Albertson, K., Irving, J., Lightowlers, C., Mama-Rudd, A., & Chaggar, A. (2015). . Sheffield: Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Other activities
Member of Sheffield Addiction and Recovery Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Group (SARRG)
Trustee board member for Ben's Centre, a Third Sector organisation that supports Sheffield's street drinkers.