Ian Marder

I am primarily concerned with encouraging and supporting evidence-led criminal justice reform and innovation, for which I conduct and disseminate research and engage with policymakers, managers and practitioners.

I am involved in a range of collaborations with researchers, governments, public services and NGOs in several countries to develop and study the use of restorative justice and restorative practices. For example, I coordinate Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change, a four-year project (2019-2023) to implement the Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)8 concerning restorative justice in criminal matters in ten countries.

I am also part of a group who conduct research, using advanced quantitative methods and policy analysis, to assess the design of sentencing guidelines and their impact on judicial decision-making in different jurisdictions.

Previously, I have conducted research on the institutionalisation of restorative justice in the police, the use of restorative justice with young adults, burglary victims' experiences of restorative justice post-sentence, public attitudes towards restorative policing, and the development of restorative justice in universities. I also have a broader interest in practitioner discretion and decision-making in criminal justice, and 

Beyond criminal justice, I am interested in the potential of social enterprise to promote socioeconomic rights, particularly within the financial sector. I have conducted research on high-cost credit, social finance, and the role of universities in promoting and supporting inclusive growth. I am also interested in disarmament and have conducted research with the UNODA to explore the integration of stockpile management concerns into disaster risk reduction strategies.

I coordinate four modules - LW269 Policing (2nd year BA/BCL), LW380 Victimology (3rd year BA/BCL), LW454 Introduction to Criminology (4th year LLB) and LW687 Restorative Justice (MA) - and supervise master's students on the LW653 Placement and LW690 Dissertation modules. In 2018/19, I taught LW164 Introduction to Criminological Theory and LW165 Introduction to Criminal Justice.

In 2019/20, I won a Team Teaching and Learning Fellowship to involve students in reviewing and redesigning a final-year module, and was nominated for the Maynooth  Teaching Award.

I greatly enjoy teaching criminology and criminal justice, and would gladly deliver bespoke classes to students, the public and practitioners. I have taught at universities in Belgium, Czech Republic, Belarus, Albania, Ireland and the UK. Since joining Maynooth, I have participated in Communiversity and contributed to PO224 Researching Criminology, LW631 Criminology and Criminal Justice, the Certificate in Restorative Practice and Mediation and the Diploma in Mediation, Negotiation and Conflict. I have also taught restorative justice to police officers at West Yorkshire Police, and to trainee and serving prison and probation officers at the National College of Security Sciences in Estonia. 

Previously, at the University of Leeds (2013-2018), I taught on a wide range of modules, including penology, research methods, youth justice, victimology, criminal justice processes, transnational crime and justice, foundations of social science, and introductory crime and justice courses