Dr Cara Jardine
Senior Lecturer
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.
Prize And Awards
- Reg Mathews Memorial Prize, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
- Recipient
- 2013
- JASIST Best Paper Award 2019
- Recipient
- 30/9/2
Publications
- Prison ethnography by correspondence?
- Jardine Cara
- Criminology and Criminal Justice Vol 24, pp. 362-378 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221111502
- Families, imprisonment and penal power : a radical analysis
- Jardine Cara
- Justice, Power and Resistance Vol 6, pp. 278-294 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1332/PTMG9667
- The information behaviours of disadvantaged young first-time mothers
- Buchanan Steven, Jardine Cara
- Journal of Documentation (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2022-0072
- 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
- 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)
Professional Activities
- Citizenship on Probation: Understanding the Labour Market Exclusion of Criminalised People in Scotland.
- Contributor
- 22/9/2022
- 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
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
Contact
Dr
Cara
Jardine
Senior Lecturer
Social Policy
Email: cara.jardine@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8752