Dr Luke Telford
Lecturer in Criminal Justice & Social Policy

Profile

Biography

Dr Luke Telford is a Lecturer in Criminal Justice & Social Policy at the University of York. He obtained a BSc (First Class Honours) in Criminology and Youth Studies at Teesside University in 2016, a MA in Social Research Methods (Distinction) at Durham University in 2017 as well as a ESRC funded PhD at Teesside University that qualitatively explored the rise of nationalism in a left behind place in Northern England in 2021. He has a range of interdisciplinary research interests particularly on left behind places, politics, working-class culture, social harms and the Covid-19 pandemic. Luke is the author/co-author of five books including The New Futures of Exclusion: Life in the Covid-19 Aftermath (Palgrave, 2023); Levelling Up the UK Economy: The Need for Transformative Change (Palgrave Pivot, 2022); Lockdown: Social Harm in the Covid-19 Era (Palgrave, 2021); and the monograph English Nationalism and its Ghost Towns (Routledge, 2022). Luke has published over 15 journal articles especially on issues surrounding left behind places, politics and the Covid-19 pandemic in mid-high ranking journals such as Competition & Change, Critical Criminology, The British Journal of Criminology, Contemporary Social Science and Sociological Research Online. If you are a student interested in studying a PhD in the areas above, please email Luke.

University roles

Programme Lead 

Research

Overview

Currently, my core research interests are:

I am interested in supervising PhD students particularly in the areas above. If you are a student interested in undertaking a thesis in the areas above, please email me.

Publications

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Teaching

Undergraduate

Currently, I am involved in the Undergraduate teaching of: