Dr Cara Jardine

Senior Lecturer

Social Work and Social Policy

Personal statement

I joined the School of Social Work and Social Policy in 2017, and have recently been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career fellowship to explore the multiple ways in which the community enters the prison, and the implications for legitimacy, citizenship and the people who reside and work within it.

This project reflects my broader interests in imprisonment and punishment, families and relationships, and social inequalities. I am also particularly interested in innovative, creative and collaborative research methods, and the connections between research, activism and penal reform.

I currently teach on a number of courses across the School, including the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in social work.

Prizes and awards

Reg Mathews Memorial Prize, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal: Recipient; 2013
JASIST Best Paper Award 2019: Recipient; 30/9/2

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Publications

Citizenship on probation : understanding the labour market exclusion of criminalised people in Scotland: Weaver Beth, Jardine Cara; Probation Journal Vol 69, pp. 296-317 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1177/02645505221105400
Prison ethnography by correspondence?: Jardine Cara; Criminology and Criminal Justice, pp. 1-17 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221111502
The information behaviours of disadvantaged young first-time mothers: Buchanan Steven, Jardine Cara; Journal of Documentation (2022); https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2022-0072
Social work education during COVID-19 : students' perceptions of the challenges and opportunities of online and blended learning: Simanovic Tia, Cioarţă Ionuţ, Jardine Cara, Paul Sally; Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice Vol 9, pp. 131-141 (2021)
Getting it Right for Families Affected by Imprisonment: Barkas Betsy, Deacon Kirsty, Foster Rebecca, Jardine Cara, Primrose Kirsty, Troy Vic; (2021)
The Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records: Christensen E, Jardine C, Kennedy A, Mabon K, Taylor E, Weaver B; (2021)

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Professional activities

Contribution to article in Daily Record: Recipient; 17/1/2022
The Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records: Chair; 25/2/2021
Why we need social workers to avert a prisons crisis: beginning a critical conversation: Recipient; 9/4/2020
Behind the curve: Can justice systems get ahead of COVID 19 and avoid a prisons crisis?: Recipient; 26/3/2020
Families, Imprisonment and Legitimacy: A radical analysis of the impact of imprisonment on families: Speaker; 13/11/2019
Families, Imprisonment and Social Justice: Speaker; 8/2019

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Projects

Perspectives from the Edges of Exclusion and Punishment: Jardine, Cara (Principal Investigator) Brangan, Louise (Principal Investigator); PEEP is a collaborative network of ECRs working broadly across the theme of punishment. PEEP is two aims: to allow us to enrich and refine our understanding of how punishment occurs across a broad range of places and actors; and, secondly, to challenge the limitations of precarious ECR working conditions by investing in the needs of ECRs.

PEEP was established through an SCCJR Development Grant.; 01-Jan-2019
Corners of Community: Exploring the role of the ?Outside? in prison life: Jardine, Cara (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2022
Constructing Family in the Context of Imprisonment: a study of prisoners and their families in Scotland: Jardine, Cara (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2011 - 30-Jan-2015

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Address

Social Work and Social Policy
Lord Hope

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