Dr. Joseph Mcaulay

Biography

Joseph is a research fellow at the University's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, where he was awarded a competitive Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. His current project, entitled 'Dangerous Spectacles', examines the relationship between conspiracy theories and crime in the United Kingdom. Joseph is also the co-convenor of ConspirOX, a discussion group dedicated to interdisciplinary research that shares and disseminates cutting-edge research at the intersection of conspiracy theories, radicalization, and contemporary culture. Additionally, he co-convenes the Alternative Political and Legal Theory discussion group. Joseph completed his DPhil in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, where his project investigated how queer men navigate and make sense of Intimate Partner Violence from male romantic and sexual partners using a narrative framework. His research was supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle and funded by a 1 + 3 Economic and Social Research Council studentship as part of the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership. Joseph has previously worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Oxford's Law Faculty and as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, where he lectured on Global Disorder and Contemporary Issues in Criminology. Besides his DPhil studies, Joseph has collaborated on various research projects at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a research assistant in the University of Oxford's Pro Bono Publico free law research clinic. He is a member of the Cameroon Conflict Research Group, which researches and reports on the ongoing civil conflict and humanitarian crisis in Cameroon, contributing to recent publications. Before starting his DPhil, Joseph completed an MSc in Criminology & Criminal Justice at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford, achieving a Distinction. From 2013 to 2017, he studied Law at the University of Edinburgh, where he achieved First Class Honours and received the McClintock Prize for Criminology, awarded for achieving the highest mark in the criminological subject in his entire honours year group. Joseph's general research interests lie in digital criminology, focusing on how digital technologies facilitate harm and how digital research methodologies help to understand crime and justice in contemporary society. He is particularly interested in how harm is subjectively experienced by individuals and communities and seeks to link these experiences to wider social changes caused by Late Modernity, with a particular focus on the sociology of conspiracy theories.

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