Dr Megan O’Neill

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

• Crescent House 209
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• E: m.e.oneill@salford.ac.uk
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Megan joined the University of Salford in 2005 as a Lecturer in Criminology, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010.  She had previously worked at the University of Sheffield for four years as a research associate after completing her PhD in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen in 2001.  Her PhD research considered the social interactions of police officers and supporters at football matches in Scotland.  This work was published as Policing Football by Palgrave in 2005.

Megan’s research takes a qualitative look at the police and their relationships with the public, other agencies and each other.  Her work, in addition to football policing, has included studies of Black Police Associations, police partnership working, Police Community Support Officers and neighbourhood policing.  She has been funded for this research by the British Academy, the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust and Greater Manchester Police.  Megan also takes a policy and practice-facing approach to her studies and has produced research reports for several police forces to assist in the development of their organisations.

Policing and social control

Surveillance studies

Criminology theory

Criminal justice systems

Qualitative research methods

Independent learning

Police and policing studies

Police occupational culture

Partnership working and neighbourhood policing

Police Community Support Officers

CCTV and surveillance

The work of Erving Goffman

PhD (Sociology), BA (Hons, Sociology and Psychology),

PGCE in Higher Education Practice and Research

FHEA

 Books

Policing Football: Social Interaction and Negotiated Disorder. (2005) Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers. ISBN: 1403941181. (Reviewed by Jack Anderson (2007), British Journal of Criminology, 49: 352-354)

Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions. (2007) Co-edited with Monique Marks and Anne-Marie Singh. Oxford: Elsevier. ISBN: 9780762313075. (Reviewed by Philip Stenning (2009), British Journal of Criminology, 49: 916-937.)

Chapters in books

‘“Playing nicely with others”: Lessons from successes in partnership work for the police service,’(2013) in Evidence from the Independent Police Commission, J. Brown (ed). Routledge publishers.

‘The police response to crime’. (2010) In The International Handbook of Criminology, S.G. Shoham, P. Knepper and M. Kett (eds). Boca Raton: CRC Press.

(with S. Holdaway) ‘Black Police Associations and the Lawrence Report’, (2007) in Policing Beyond Macpherson, M. Rowe (ed). Devon: Willan Publishing.

(with A. Singh) ‘Introduction’ in The Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions, (2007) M. O’Neill, M. Marks and A. Singh (eds.), Elsevier Press.

(with S. Holdaway) ‘Black Police Associations and the Police Occupational Culture’ (2007) in The Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions, M. O’Neill, M. Marks, and A. Singh (eds.), Elsevier Press.

Articles in refereed journals

(with D. McCarthy) ‘(Re)Negotiating Police Culture through Partnership Working: Trust, Compromise and the ‘new’ Pragmatism’, (2013) Criminology and Criminal Justice. DOI:10.1177/1748895812469381.

 (with S. Holdaway)  ‘Examining “Window Dressing”: the views of Black Police Associations on recruitment and training’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33(3): 483-500. 2007.

 (with S. Holdaway) ‘Where has all the racism gone? Views of racism within constabularies after Macpherson’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30(3): 397-415. 2007.

 (with S. Holdaway) ‘Ethnicity and culture: thinking about “police ethnicity”’, British Journal of Sociology, 57(3): 483-502. 2006.

(with S. Holdaway) ‘Institutional racism after Macpherson: an analysis of police views’, Policing and Society: 16(4): 349-369. 2006.

(with S. Holdaway) ‘The development of Black Police Associations: changing articulations of race within the police’, British Journal of Criminology 44(6): 854-865. 2004.

‘Policing Football in Scotland: The forgotten team’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 39(1): 95-104. 2004.

Research Reports

‘Plural Policing: Recommendations from a Research Project’, Centre for Social Research (CSR.Salford), June 2012.

(with N. Hazel) ‘GMP Operation “Street-a-Week” Evaluation Report’, Greater Manchester Police, February 2011

Other publications

‘Policing Urban Riots’, The Dialogue Society, 31 My 2012. URL: http://www.dialoguesociety.org/articles/793-youth-riots-policing-urban-riots.html

‘Policing myths', Criminal Justice Matters, 83: 1, 32 — 33. 2011.