Jennifer Robinson
Lecturer
Biography
Following a BA Hons degree in English Literature, Jennifer completed a PGCE in Secondary Education. She completed a Master's degree in Teaching and Learning at University of Chester with her disseration focused critically on the relationship between curriculum design and social mobility. Having taught for 20 years in various secondary school contexts, including in an international school, Jennifer completed a TEFL qualification in 2018 that led to teaching adults and children in Language School contexts before beginning her PhD research at Chester in 2021.
Teaching and Supervision
Jennifer has taught, assessed and been Module Leader across the following modules for Sociology and Criminology at University of Chester between 2024-2025: Sociology: Public Sociology (Lecturer), Sociological Imagination (Module Leader, Lecturer) and Body & Society (Assessment) Criminology: Policing: Research Methods (Lecturer), Policing, Crime & Society (Module Leader, Lecturer) Theories of Crime & Justice (Assessment) Risk, Harm & Reduction (Assessment) and Youth Justice (Assessment).
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Jennifer's PhD research focuses on the nature of gambling related harm as a social phenomena. The study is qualitative and ethnographic, exploring how individual narratives of harm are nested in broader discourses of addiction, personal agency, trauma and well-being. More broadly, Jennifer's research interests include the experiences of marginalised communities and Social Justice issues including lived/living experiences of poverty and its structural inequities. These interests align with research carried out by fellow colleagues of Social Justice Chester. Projects to date have included working with external partners to design and co-produce an exhibition, Walking Further Together, that aims to highlight individual experiences and narratives of poverty in relation to media representation and policy design.