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Nicola Groves, Senior Lecturer

Nicola Groves

Senior Lecturer

Nicola Groves has been a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University since 2006. Nicola specialises in teaching and research in the area of 'domestic violence'. She co-authored "Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice" (Routledge, 2013).

Nicola has been the External Examiner for Criminology at Teesside University for the past four years.

Current Teaching

Nicola is currently Module Leader for 'Crime Justice and Society', 'Gender, Crime and Justice' and 'Gender Violence and Abuse'. She also supervises BA (Honours) Criminology, BA (Honours) Sociology and BA (Honours) joint dissertation students.

Research Interests

In 2004 the Northern Rock Foundation (NRF) invested £3.5million in a five year multi-agency domestic abuse initiative. The initiative funded two domestic violence projects in Cumbria and Gateshead and an external evaluation of both multi-agency projects. Nicola was a part time researcher on this evaluation between 2004-2008.

Nicola Groves, Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Selected Outputs

  • Musgrove A; Groves N (2008) The Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004: Relevant or ‘Removed’ Legislation?. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 29 (3-4), pp. 233-244.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/09649060701752257

  • Groves N; Thomas T (2013) Domestic violence and criminal justice. Routledge.