Since July 2014, Professor Belinda Carpenter has been presenting her research at International conferences and Universities in Europe, the US and the UK as well as discussing research conducted by Centre members and publicising the International journal and bi-annual conference hosted by the Centre. Beginning in July, Belinda presented research on the difficulties police face when investigating non-criminal deaths for the coroner at the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference in Liverpool. Also in July, she gave a public lecture on suspicion, vulnerability and marginalisation in the Australian coronial system at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, London, where she was hosted by Director Richard Garside. In August she travelled to Estonia where she discussed suicide rates as a function of coronial practice at the European Symposium on Suicide and Suicide Behaviour.
In September, she returned to Liverpool and used the concept of ‘the other’ to discuss invisibility and suspicion in a death investigation at the European Social Deviance Group Annual Conference and then onto Prague where her research on expert testimony in a death investigation was presented at the European Society of Criminology Annual Conference. At the end of September Belinda travelled to Oxford University at the invitation of Professor Keith Hawton to present research on the role of coroners in suicide determination to the Centre for Suicide Research.
In October she travelled to the Netherlands and discussed the investigation of violent, sudden and unexplained deaths in Australia at the Department of Criminology, School of Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, where she was hosted by Professor Rene van Swaaningen. She then visited Amsterdam where she presented research on the politics of sex trafficking at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research where she was hosted by Dr Rachael Spronk. Also in October Belinda discussed vulnerability and marginalisation in a death investigation as part of a panel presentation as part of the ‘Prisons, Detention and Punishment’ working group at the School of Humanities and Social Science, Liverpool John Moore’s University in Liverpool.
In November, Belinda travelled to Cambridge University at the invitation of Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe where she presented research on the relation between crime and justice in a death investigation at the Institute of Criminology. Also in November, Belinda presented her research on victimisation, consent and migration at Leeds University, where she was hosted by Professor Susan Karstedt at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, and School of Sociology and Social Policy. Finally, Belinda travelled to San Francisco where she presented two papers at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference. The first discussed the crime of suicide as a history of the present while the second engaged with coronial narratives of Indigenous death.
In December, Professor Jo Phoenix hosted Belinda at Leicester University where she presented a lecture entitled “Re-thinking the sex trafficking debate” as part of The Gender Network. Also in December, Belinda returned to Liverpool at the invitation of Professor Gabe Mythen where she gave a seminar on the idea of sex trafficking at the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, at Liverpool University. Finally, Belinda was interviewed about her research for a podcast by Professor Toby Miller as part of Cultural Studies: Conversations with artists, writers, intellectuals, workers. The link to that podcast can be found here: http://culturalstudies.podbean.com/e/belinda-carpenter-on-sex-trafficking-parole-and-death/?token=949a47dd131e02707cb5653bfb0f2ba3
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