Core team

Professor Maggie O'Neill

Maggie is Chair in Sociology & Criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of York and has a long history of conducting participatory, visual and walking methods in and with communities. Maggie developed a crime and justice walk for an arts council funds project Ghosts of Our Future, held a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship to examine Borders risk and belonging using walking methods, is a founding member of CrimNet, co-chairs the Sex Work Research Hub and the UoY Migration Network. Maggie  is a member of the Walking Artists Network and with Umut Erel, Tracey Reynolds and Erene Kaptani is using arts based methods (theatre and walking) to conduct participatory action research with migrant mothers, girls and mothers with no recourse to public funds. Walking Methods: Biographical Research on the Move co-authored with Brian Roberts is published in 2018. Maggie is co-lead on the project and has collaborated in the research, mapping, and narrative development of the project. You can follow Maggie on Twitter: @MaggieOneill9

Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce

Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of York and works in the arena of cultural criminology and death studies. Ruth has published on consumption and criminal corpses; corpses, popular culture and forensic science as well as celebrity culture and crime. Her new book Death, the Dead and Popular Culture is due for release in 2018. She is on the editorial board for the journal Mortality and is a founding editor of the new Emerald Book Series in Death and Culture. Ruth is active in public engagement writing for The Conversation and Discover Society as well as appearing on both television and radio. Ruth is co-lead on the project and has collaborated in the research, mapping, and narrative development of the project. 
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You can follow Ruth on Twitter: @DeathandCulture

David Honeywell

David is currently an Associate Lecturer and PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, where he currently leads the undergraduate crime and deviance module. As a reformed offender, David tours the UK giving guest talks to criminology and cross-disciplinary students about his experience of prison life, criminal activities and the dysfunctional lifestyle that led him to go down a life of misadventure; and how he eventually turned things around through the work he did with the probation service and education. In 2012, David published his autobiography Never Ending Circles. Since then, David's work has appeared in several other publications. David is co-lead on the project and has collaborated in the research, mapping, and narrative development of the project. ​

You can follow Dave on Twitter. @Honeywell_David

Harriet Crowder

Harriet is currently an undergraduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. Going into her final year of her BA(Hons) Sociology with Criminology, Harriet is particularly interested in criminological approaches to gender and the sex industry. As the project's Departmental Research Committee intern, Harriet's work on the project has focused around developing the overarching narrative of the walk conducting research, especially archival research, consulting with a range of external advisers and collaborators in conjunction with the Crime Walk team. 

Matt Coward

Matt is currently a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of York where he studies the way in which communities grow, subsist and impart identity. Having completed his MA(Res) at the University of Leeds and his BA(Hons) at York St John University in religious studies, Matt's research has focused on Asian indigenous shamanic practices and modern British Paganism and Witchcraft. Matt's work on the project includes the creation of audio-visual tours, augmented reality geo-mapping, and web-development.

You can follow Matt on Twitter: @MattCoward_