Over the past decade, selfies have become a mainstay of popular culture. As recent studies have shown, the way we take selfies – and the specific camera angles we choose – varies depending on what we intend to do with them.

The 10 December marks International Human Rights Day and the 2020 theme is Recover Better - Stand Up for Human Rights with a focus on the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to put human rights at the centre of global responses and recovery.

I worked for Group 4 Securicor for three years on the UK electronic offender monitoring programme, leaving in 2001 to do a PhD on the role of surveillance technologies in criminal justice. I worked at the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety at Buckinghamshire New University between 2001 and 2006 as a research consultant and senior lecturer in policing and joined Sheffield Hallam University in January 2007 as a senior lecturer in criminology. I am course leader for the BA (Hons) Criminal Justice Practice. My teaching and research interests include surveillance, policing, crime prevention and criminological theory which have led to the publication of two books: ‘Policing and Criminology’ (2011, with my Sheffield Hallam colleague, Ed Pollock) and 'Understanding the Electronic Monitoring of Offenders (2009).

Peter Wells is professor of public policy analysis and evaluation, and the Assistant Dean for Research and Business Development for the College of Social Sciences and Arts.

As Principal Lecturer and Group Leader for BA Politics, Knut leads and develops the Politics staff group through appraisals and work planning, and oversees the direction of the Politics degree through collaboration with the team

I've worked at Sheffield Hallam University since March 2006 a Senior Lecturer in Criminology.

Staff profile for Jon Dean, Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology at Sheffield Hallam University

I am a senior lecturer in Sustainable Construction and Climate Change. In addition to my research duties, I lecture specifically on issues of Energy, Buildings and integrated renewable energy systems, Climate Change, Sustainability in the Built Form and Environmental Management.

The White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership has been awarded funding for a further five years to support doctoral scholarship and training in the social sciences at Sheffield Hallam University.