Sarah Page

• Member of the British Society of Criminology
• Higher Education Academy  Senior Fellow
• Member of the BSC Prison Research Network
• Member of the BSC Learning and Teaching
• Network Member of the Staffordshire Collaborative
• Network Member of the SVP Social Justice Committee

• Poverty and Crime
• Community Safety
• Addictions (Alcohol, Drugs and Gambling)
• Victimology
• Service Development and Design
• Hate Crime
• Partnership Working
• Domestic Violence
• Criminal Justice
• Human Trafficking
• Public Health
• Education

Current:

GamCare and HMPPS are funding our gambling harms and the criminal justice research - refer to Page, S., Turner, J. and Plimley, S. (2022) Identifying gambling-related harms earlier to inform sentencing and treatment pathways. Probation Quarterly. Issue 26, ISSN 2752-6933 pp 55-60 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ec3ce97a1716758c54691b7/t/6392fdc3aca2e6275333f232/1670577604733/Identifying+gambling-related+harms+earlier+to+inform+sentencing+and+treatment+pathways.pdf

NHS REN funding has been obtained through SHERPPa to fund our work on developing community research champions for healthcare.

The Staffordshire Forensic Partnership has funded us to review their partnership through our Assessing Your Partnership Toolkit.

Recent:

Stoke-on-Trent Local Authority funded our qualitative research into the lived experience of Monkey Dust which we delivered with Expert Citizens CIC - refer to McCormack, F., Page, S., and Fedorowicz, S. (July 2023) Summary Report: Research into the use of the psychoactive substance known as ‘Monkey dust’ in Stoke-on-Trent. Available online https://www.chadresearch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Research-into-the-use-of-the-psychoactive-substance-known-as-Monkey-dust-in-Stoke-on-Trent-Exec-Summary-July-2023.pdf

West Mids Police Crime Commissioners Office and the JABBS foundation funded our women's lived experience of community drug and alcohol services research project which we delivered in partnership with Expert Citizens CIC and the Centre for Justice Innovation - refer to Whitehead, S., Page, S., Jeffery, H. and McCormack, F. (2023) Exploring women’s experience of drug and alcohol treatment in the West Midlands. Available online https://justiceinnovation.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2023/CJI_WOMENS-DRUG-%26-ALCOHOL-TREATMENT_13-9-23_DIGITAL_0.pdf

The Howard League for Penal Reform in partnership with the Magistrates Association funded our gambling treatment and the CJS research with sentencers - refer to Page, S. (2021) Sentencers’ understanding and treatment of problem gamblers: The report of the Commission on Crime and Problem Gambling. Howard League for Penal Reform, London ISBN 978-1-911114-59-8.

Rideout funded our evaluation of arts projects being used in prisons - refer to Page, S., Chamberlain, V. and Gratton, N. (2022) Performing well: Male prisoner experiences of drama, dance, singing and puppetry in England, Journal of Incarceration. Vol3(2), pp 1-21 doi: 10.1177/26326663221106162

From 2022-2024 I am seconded into the Action Against Poverty and Hardship undergraduate degree course and teaching on modules associated with working in social justice. I also contribute to Criminology dissertation and PhD research supervision.

I am the course leader for a range of mentoring course, including training West Midlands Police policing tutors.

More typically, when teaching within the Criminology team, I have responsibility for:

Undergraduate BSc Criminology course modules:

• Working with Drug Users
• Happy Families: Crime, Abuses and Inequalities
• Professional Practice Placement
• Sociology of Education

MA Transnational Organised Crime modules:

• Trafficking: the Illegal Trade in People, Goods and Services

MSc Criminology course modules:

• Working in Criminal Justice

Whitehead, S., Page, S., Jeffery, H. and McCormack, F. (2023) Exploring women’s experience of drug and alcohol treatment in the West Midlands. Available online https://justiceinnovation.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2023/CJI_WOMENS-DRUG-%26-ALCOHOL-TREATMENT_13-9-23_DIGITAL_0.pdf

Knight, B. and Page, S. (2023) A Different Kind of Growth to End Poverty. IN Page, S., Coates. M., Tipping, J., Frangos, J. and Goldstraw, K. (eds) Action on Poverty in the UK. Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland pp327-343

Page, S. (2023) Seeking Asylum and Refuge: Poverty, Destitution and Unemployment. IN Page, S., Coates. M., Tipping, J., Frangos, J. and Goldstraw, K. (eds) Action on Poverty in the UK. Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, pp303-327

Page, S., Bratt, S. and Oldfield, S., (2023) Drugs and Alcohol Addictions, Sexual Exploitation and Poverty.IN Page, S., Coates. M., Tipping, J., Frangos, J. and Goldstraw, K. (eds) Action on Poverty in the UK. Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, pp249-271

Goldstraw, K. and Page, S. (2023) Poverty as a Public Health Concern. IN Page, S., Coates. M., Tipping, J., Frangos, J. and Goldstraw, K. (eds) Action on Poverty in the UK. Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, pp73-887 Page, S. and Griffin, S. (2023) The informal tripart relationship between the state, neighbourhood police and community groups: community safety perceptions and practices in a Midlands neighbourhood in the UK, Safer Communities, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-03-2023-0009

Page, S. (2023) Asylum seeker poverty and bail reporting change activism. Local Economy, Vol 37(8), pp 708–726. https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942231175092

Page, S. (2023) Reflective participatory crime prevention education and solution finding through World Café and Forum Theatre with young people and young adults, Safer Communities, Vol 22 (3), pp 156-171. https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-08-2022-0034

Page, S., Turner, J. and Plimley, S. (2022) Identifying gambling-related harms earlier to inform sentencing and treatment pathways. Probation Quarterly. Issue 26, ISSN 2752-6933 pp 55-60 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ec3ce97a1716758c54691b7/t/6392fdc3aca2e6275333f232/1670577604733/Identifying+gambling-related+harms+earlier+to+inform+sentencing+and+treatment+pathways.pdf

Page, S., Chamberlain, V. and Gratton, N. (2022) Performing well: Male prisoner experiences of drama, dance, singing and puppetry in England, Journal of Incarceration. Vol3(2), pp 1-21 doi: 10.1177/26326663221106162

Page, S., Turner, J., Bailey, L., Plimley, S., Bratt, S. and McFarlane, K. (2021) Collaboration in conducting research: reflections on a mixed methods online data collection study with sentencers pertaining to their knowledge and experiences of sentencing those with gambling problems committed crimes. ECAN Bulletin, Howard League for Penal Reform, Accessed online (05/11/2021) ECAN webpage

Page, S. (2021) Sentencers’ understanding and treatment of problem gamblers: The report of the Commission on Crime and Problem Gambling. Howard League for Penal Reform, London ISBN 978-1-911114-59-8

Page, S. (2020) ‘PEOPLE GET KILLED CAUSE OF THERE [THEIR] SKIN. IT CANNOT BE STOPPED’: A MIDLANDS CASE STUDY CONSIDERING EXPERIENCES OF RACISM AMONGST PUPILS IN UK SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND THE COMMUNITY. British Journal of Community Justice. Vol15(3), pp1-18 https://www.mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/articles/people-get-killed-cause-of-there-their-skin.-it-cannot-be-stopped-a-midland

Page, S., Gratton, N., Brindle-Wilkinson, R., Chamberlain, V. and Campbell, N. (2020) Informing Prison Theatre Improvement through World Café Conversations with Prisoners. Prison Service Journal Issue 248, pp45-55 https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/psj/prison-service-journal-248

Page, S. (2019) The number of suspected victims of trafficking and slavery in the UK increased by 35% in 2017; of the 5,145 suspected victims from 116 countries, 2,118 were minors. IN Lymes A & Treadwell J (eds) 50 facts about crime that everyone in Britain should know. Polity Press, Bristol pp161-166