Profile · Manchester Metropolitan University

Academic and professional qualifications

PhD in Criminology from University of Manchester
Fellowship of Higher Education Authority (FHEA)
Masters in Criminology from University of Manchester
Bachelors in Sociology from Manchester Metropolitan University
PTTLS teaching qualification

Previous employment

Lectureship at Liverpool Hope University 2014-15
Lectureship at University of Huddersfield 2013-14
Graduate Teaching Associate University of Manchester 2010-2013
Manchester Youth Services/ Youth Offending Services 2000-2010

Other academic service (administration and management)

Head of Youth Justice at Manchester Centre for Youth Studies (MCYS)

Why study Criminology?

Undergraduate courses

Understanding Crime and Deviance Level 4

Postgraduate supervision (completed/in progress)

Principal Supervisor- Trying for Change: An exploration of Rugby Union as a means to examine marginality, masculinity and positive youth development (PYD) amongst young people in the youth justice system (Awarded Vice Chancellor PhD scholarship scheme)
Principal Supervisor- How do children’s interactions with appropriate adults, legal representatives and advocates at police interview impact their outcome and shape their trajectory in the Youth Justice System
Second Supervisor- The Impossibility of Being a Girl – a verse novel (English & Creative Writing)

Research expertise

I am the Head of Youth Justice for the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies and I have over 15 years’ experience of working in youth justice as both a practitioner and service manager. I have implemented sporting programmes such as Positive Futures, and I was the recipient of a Winston Churchill Memorial Fund scholarship evaluating the impact of sporting programmes on communities in the USA. My current research focuses on youth justice and sport criminology, and I have a particular interest in the impact of boxing on serious youth violence and sexual exploitation. I have published on qualitative research methods and national sporting policy evaluation, and I am the grant holder and Principal Investigator for the Comic Relief funded project - Getting out for Good: Preventing Gangs Through Participation. I am also the Co-investigator on various grants housed within the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, mainly those focused on serious youth violence, trauma and youth justice.

Academic collaborations

Shape Your Life: Shape Your Life (SYL) is a free, trauma informed, non-contact boxing program for people who have experienced violence. SYL Toronto is the original site of the SYL program and operates as a partnership between Dr. Cathy van Ingen, Professor in Kinesiology at Brock University and Joanne Green, Executive Director with Opportunity for Advancement.
Comeback Industries (CBI) help former gang members and other marginalized and radicalized youth create meaningful jobs through entrepreneurship. Through business coaching and partial funding, we build strong businesses that in turn can help employ more young unemployed people.

Publications

Books (authored/edited/special issues)

P. Gray, D. Jump, H. Smithson (2023). Adverse Childhood Experiences and Serious Youth Violence. Bristol University Press.
Journal articles

H. Smithson, D. Jump Unmasked and Exposed: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Youth Custodial Estate. A Compelling Case for Ideological Change. The British Journal of Criminology.
Chapters in books
Reports

K. Wong, P. Gray, A. Roberts, D. Jump (2021). Youth Endowment Fund Empire Fighting Chance, Feasibility Study Findings. Policy Evaluation and Research Unit Manchester Metropolitan University, Youth Endowment Fund.

Invited papers

Jump, D (2020)” Look who is laughing now”: Physical capital, boxing and the prevention of repeat victimisation in Youth Violence Framed: Disrupting Discourses Special Edition. Onati-Social Legal Series. Vol XX

Invited roundtable discussions

Keynote Speaker at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Getting out for Good: Girls and Gangs (2021)
Keynote speaker at MCYS and ESRI Conference Collaboration, Creativity and Complexities (2019)
All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Panel Member for Social exclusion, Crime and Boxing (2018)
Reimaging Contested Communities Conference: Panel Member (2018)
University of Manchester Roundtable Discussion with Brian Heaphy and Niko Besnier- The Body, Masculinity and Precarity (2017)
Keynote speaker and organiser British Sociological Association Early Career Forum Event: Bouncers, Boxers and Drug Dealers
Annual Ethnography Symposium- Birmingham University (2016)

Conference organisation

British Sociological Association Eary Career Forum Event 2016: Bouncers, Boxers and Drug Dealers

Expert reviewer for journals and publishers

Editorial board for Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm and Ethics

Grants

2020 £363,131,00 (CI) UKRI: The Youth Justice System’s Response to the Covid 19 Crisis: Implications and Impact.
2020 £40,000 (PI) Comic Relief Getting out for Good Covid Recovery Fund. The impact of digital packages on sexual exploitation and adolescent mental health
2020 £3,500 (PI) England Boxing: Evaluation of MST programme on knife crime in the North West.
2020 £7658 (PI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) A transnational policy transfer for girls affected by gangs in Bogota, Colombia
2019 £100,000 (CI) Research using an experience -based co-design approach to develop effective practice to address serious youth violence
2019 £93,690,00 (CI) Youth Endowment Fund: Creating Futures through Boxing Feasibility Evaluation
2019 £106,068,00 (CI) Youth Endowment Fund: Inspiring Futures Rugby Feasibility Evaluation
2018 £127,182,00 (CI) Young Manchester Evaluation of #IWILL Fund.
2018 £100,000 (CI) Sport Relief Kicking Crime into Touch: Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, with MMU Sport, and Greater Manchester Youth Justice Services.
2017 £45,000 (DoS) PVC PhD Scholarship Scheme: Championing Change: Promoting Desistance through Sport- Full time bursary awarded to a student in my chosen research area
2017 £450,000 (PI) Comic Relief: Getting out for Good: working with young women at risk of serious violence and sexual exploitation across Greater Manchester.
2016 £7,000 Research Accelerator Grant (PI). Prestigious award to develop early career academics’ research areas at Manchester Metropolitan University. This grant developed the international element of my work into sport, crime, and serious youth violence.
2010 £45,000 GTA Scholarship fully funded PhD, University of Manchester
2006 £8,000 Winston Churchill Memorial Fund Scholarship: How effective is sport on youth crime in the USA

Community, charity and NGO links

Board member and trustee for Collyhurst and Moston Boxing Gym

Government and industry links

Member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Boxing (APPG)

Impact and influence on policy

Jump, D and Hills, S (2020 ) All Party Parliamentary Group Report: Boxing and its Societal Effects. A Literature Review. 16th Dec 2020

Media appearances or involvement

I have featured on BBC News at Ten for the Getting out for Good Project in Dec 2018 , as well as BBC Sport Relief and BBC Comic Relief as part of their project fundraising campaigns. I have also appeared on BBC Radio 5 live for the Kicking Crime into Touch project in 2017 as well as BBC Radio Manchester for the second phase of the Getting out for Good Project in 2019 . I have appeared on BBC Radio 4 with Nikesh Shukla for the One-to-One series, discussing my research into boxing and youth crime in 2018. I have also featured in The Observer magazine discussing my book- The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance in 2019 and The Manchester Evening News

Prizes and awards

2020 Shortlisted for British Society of Criminology Book Prize
2018 Shortlisted for Man Met Early Career Researcher of the Year
2017 Vice Chancellor's PhD scholarship scheme
2016 MMU's Research Accelerator Grant (to develop an international policy transfer with Comeback Industries in Copenhagen
2010 Graduate Teaching Associate PhD scholarship University of Manchester
2006 Winston Churchill Fellowship Award

Editorial board membership

Editorial Board member for Journal of Contemporary Harm, Crime and Ethics

Membership of professional associations

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (awarded 2015)
Member of the British Sociological Association
Member of the British Criminological Association

Staff Profile

Dr Deborah Jump

Reader in Criminology

Academic Biography