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      Prof Kevin McDonald

      ROLE: Professor and Head of Department of Criminology & Sociology
      SCHOOL: Law
      DEPARTMENT: Criminology & Sociology
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 3706
      EMAIL: K.Mcdonald@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Kevin McDonald joined Middlesex University as Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Criminology and Sociology in July 2013. Fluent in three languages, he is a leader of international research networks around engagement and disengagement from violence, social and religious movements and the construction of civil societies, and the empowering role of digital technologies. He is a facilitator with the UK-based Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, where he has worked on its Iraq Research Fellowship Programme, and is a member of the Australian Attorney General's Countering Violent Extremism Research Panel. He has held senior academic positions at the University of Melbourne in Australia, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, together with a Marie Curie International Fellowship at Goldsmiths College in London. He is a research associate at the Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques at the EHESS.

        Qualifications:

        Doctorat (Sociology) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris,1991

        Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (Sociology) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1983

        Bachelor of Arts (Honours) La Trobe University, Melbourne (1978)

         

        Key publications:

        Our Violent World: Terrorism in Society, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013

        Global Movements: Action and Culture, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006

        Struggles for Subjectivity: Identity, Action and Youth Experience, Cambridge: Cambridge Unieversity Press, 1999

        Languages spoken

        Fluent in French and Spanish


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Professor McDonald is actively engaged in developing new ways to link theory and practice in the social sciences. In particular he is working to support experiential learning and placements and internships in Middlesex University's criminology and sociology programmes.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Professor McDonald's research focuses on culture, politics and action. Key areas include social movements, urban gangs, uses of digial communications, justice and ethics in action, engagement and disengagement from violence. Professor McDonald is available to supervise doctoral students in these areas.

        Publication Feed

        Reconceptualising academic development as community development: lessons from working with Syrian academics in exile

        Parkinson, Tom and McDonald, Kevin and Quinlan, Kathleen M. (2019) Reconceptualising academic development as community development: lessons from working with Syrian academics in exile. Higher Education . ISSN 0018-1560 (Published online first)

        Radicalization

        McDonald, Kevin (2018) Radicalization. Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781509522606

        From Indymedia to Anonymous: rethinking action and identity in digital cultures

        McDonald, Kevin (2015) From Indymedia to Anonymous: rethinking action and identity in digital cultures. Information, Communication & Society, 18 (8). pp. 968-982. ISSN 1369-118X

        "More than a game": the impact of sport-based youth mentoring schemes on developing resilience toward violent extremism

        Johns, Amelia and Grossman, Michele and McDonald, Kevin (2014) "More than a game": the impact of sport-based youth mentoring schemes on developing resilience toward violent extremism. Social Inclusion, 2 (2). pp. 57-70. ISSN 2183-2803

        Commentary: What could a sociology of the subject look like? Subject, subjectivity, subjectivation by Paola Rebughini

        McDonald, Kevin (2014) Commentary: What could a sociology of the subject look like? Subject, subjectivity, subjectivation by Paola Rebughini. Sociopedia.ISA . ISSN 2056-8460

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Vice-President of Research Committee 47, Social Movements and Social Classes, International Sociological Association

        Member of international Advisory Boards forSocial Movement Studies(Taylor and Francis),Sociology Compass(Blackwell),Sociopedia.ISA(Sage), andNew Cultural Frontiers(published in collaboration with the ISA).

        Member of the Australian Attorney General's Research Panel on Countering Violent Extremism

        Expert to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the area of Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that lead to Terrorism

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