Ms Jane Drapkin

Jane is a lecturer in Criminology and is undertaking a PhD in the prevention of identity based violence. Jane has worked for international NGOs in conflict affected countries including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Eritrea, and has delivered genocide education on the Holocaust, the Srebrenica genocide and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Institute for Research in Criminology and Community and Social Justice

Jane’s PhD explores communities that prevent identity-based violence in contexts of genocide, civil war and communal unrest. 

Jane has taught on a number of criminology modules. She is currently module leader for International Perspectives (third year undergraduate) and Genocides and mass atrocities (second year undergraduate).

MA Politics of International Resources and Development, University of Leeds
BA Chemistry, Lincoln College, University of Oxford.

International Perspectives, Genocides and mass atrocities, Dissertation Supervision.

Member of Advisory Board for Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Member of The International Association of Genocide Scholars

Peace, Equality and Social Justice and SDG16 Conference, De Montfort University May 2022

Carceral Spaces in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Leicester September 2023

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