Staff Profile
Isobel Clare
Doctoral Researcher, Graduate Teaching Assistant
I am a Doctoral Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the social sciences at York St John University.
My doctoral research focuses on women's experiences of county lines gangs in North Yorkshire. Before this, I completed an MA in International Relations at the University of York (2019) and a BSc (Hons) in International Relations at the London School of Economics (2017).
My main areas of interest include gender, security, feminist theory, and political theory.
- School – York Business School
- Email – i.clare@yorksj.ac.uk
Teaching
I currently teach on the following modules:
Term 1:
- CRI4001M Fundamentals of Criminological Theory
- CRI4002M Crime and Deviance in the Contemporary World
Term 2:
- CRI4003M Preventing and Punishing
- 2CL024 Ethnicity, Nationality and Social Control
Research
My research is across criminological and sociological theory, taking a feminist perspective on security related issues.
My current research looks at new ways of conceptualising the experiences of women in gangs, with a focus on county lines. I suggest that traditional sociological concepts connected with gang activity do not do justice to the complexities of women's experiences. Following feminist research on silenced groups, I suggest a more valid conceptual framework can be derived from listening to the voices of women themselves.
I also have a broad interest in the impact of other forms of criminal activity on women, and in ways of reducing that impact. For example, my MA research focused on the structural and governance factors surrounding the recent Oxfam sexual abuse and exploitation scandal.
Publications and Conferences
Publications
Clare, I. (2021) 'Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics, by Sylvana Tomaselli' LSE Review of Books, Available at: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/05/28/book-review-wollstonecraft-philosophy-passion-and-politics-by-sylvana-tomaselli/ (Accessed: 25 March 2022).
Clare, I. (2015) 'Did globalisation in the nineteenth-century plant the seeds of its own destruction?' The LSE Economic History Review, 2014/2015, pp. 57-61.
Conferences
Organised - Critical Research PGR Conference, York St John University, 7 July 2022.
‘A reconsideration of the ethics of naming space and place in socio-legal research with historically silenced groups', SLSA 2022, University of York, 6 April 2022.
Organised - 'Under the radar: the experiences of women in County Lines in North Yorkshire', Research Spotlight, York St John University, 19 May 2021.
'Questions of agency and criminal responsibility in relation to women in county lines gangs', SLSA 2021, online, 29 March 2021, poster presentation.
Professional Activities
I completed Advance HE's 'New to Teaching' six week course in September-October 2021.