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

ECR collective response : The future of criminology and the unsustainability of the status quo for ECRs: Anderson Sarah, Horgan Shane, Jamieson Fiona, Jardine Cara, Rogers Ashley; Criminology and Criminal Justice Vol 20, pp. 487-490 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820949299
The complex information needs of disadvantaged young first-time mothers : insights into multiplicity of needs: Buchanan Steven, Jardine Cara; Journal of Documentation Vol 76, pp. 1135-1153 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2019-0142
Families, Imprisonment and Legitimacy : The Cost of Custodial Penalties: Jardine Cara; Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family (2019)
Information behaviours in disadvantaged and dependent circumstances and the role of information intermediaries: Buchanan Steven, Jardine Cara, Ruthven Ian; Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Vol 70, pp. 117-129 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24110
Eroding legitimacy? The impact of imprisonment on relationships between families, communities and the criminal justice system: Jardine Cara; Prisons, Punishment and the Family Towards a New Sociology of Punishment (2018) (2018)
Isolated, overwhelmed and worried : young first-time mothers asking for information and support online: Ruthven Ian, Buchanan Steven, Jardine Cara; Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Vol 69, pp. 1073-1083 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24037

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Professional activities

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
Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice National Conference: Speaker; 6/2019
A Day in the Life of an ECR: opportunities for connecting policy and research: Invited speaker; 6/2019

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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 Building

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