Dr Matthew Millings

Report

Quigg Z, Harris J, Hearne E, Millings MN, Smith C, Farrugia AM, Nanyangwe M, Timpson H. 2023. Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership Whole System Evaluation Report: 2022-23 Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership Whole System Evaluation Report: 2022-23 Publisher Url Public Url

Quigg Z, Millings M, McCoy E, Harrison R, Bates R, Timpson H. 2021. Evaluation of the Lancashire Violence Reduction Network

Quigg Z, Timpson H, Millings M, Bates R, McCoy E, Bigland C, Ashton SA, Burton L, Jennifer H, Harrison R, Clarke M, Butler N. 2020. Evaluation of the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership 2019-20

Taylor S, Burke L, Millings MN, Ragonese EL. 2018. Through the Gate: the implementation, management and delivery of resettlement service provision for short term prisoners. Final Briefing Report. DOI Public Url

Taylor S, Burke L, Millings MN, Ragonese EL. 2018. Through the Gate: the implementation, management and delivery of resettlement service provision for short term prisoners. Executive Summary. Public Url

Barrett GA, Beckett Wilson H, Burke L, Millings MN. 2015. Working Together to Reduce Reoffending: Reducing Reoffending Project 2012-2015 Publisher Url Public Url

Barrett GA, Beckett Wilson H, Burke L, Millings MN. 2015. Reducing Reoffending Project: Action Learning Set 6 Publisher Url Public Url

Barrett GA, Beckett Wilson H, Burke L, Millings MN. 2015. Reducing Reoffending Research Project: Action Learning Set 5 Publisher Url Public Url

Millings MN, Burke L, Robinson G. 2015. Staff hopes, fears and experiences at the point of transition into new ownership (Interim Research Report, June 2015) Staff hopes, fears and experiences at the point of transition into new ownership (Interim Research Report, June 2015)

Barrett GA, Beckett Wilson H, Burke L, Millings MN. 2014. Reducing Reoffending Research Project: Action Learning Set 4 Publisher Url Public Url

Millings MN, Burke L, Robinson G. 2014. Laying the Foundations: The First Six Months of the [anonymised] Community Rehabilitation Company (Interim Research Report, November 2014) Laying the Foundations: The First Six Months of the [anonymised] Community Rehabilitation Company (Interim Research Report, November 2014)

Millings MN, Burke L, Robinson G. 2014. Anticipating and Experiencing Change: From Creation to Mobilisation of the [anonymised] Community Rehabilitation Company (Interim Research Report, September 2014) Anticipating and Experiencing Change: From Creation to Mobilisation of the [anonymised] Community Rehabilitation Company (Interim Research Report, September 2014)

Barrett GA, Beckett Wilson H, Burke L, Millings MN. 2014. Reducing Reoffending Research Project: Action Learning Set 3 Public Url

Barrett GA, Beckett Wilson H, Burke L, Millings MN. 2013. European Reoffending Research Project: Action Learning Set 1 Publisher Url Public Url

Mair G, Millings MN. 2011. Doing Justice Locally: The North Liverpool Community Justice Centre Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Barrett GA, Beckett Wilson H, Burke L, Millings MN. European Reoffending Research Project: Action Learning Set 2 Publisher Url Public Url

Journal article

Robinson G, Annison H, Burke L, Carr N, Millings M, Surridge E. 2023. Whose confidence? Regional leaders’ perspectives on building confidence in a reconfigured probation service Criminology & Criminal Justice, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Annison H, Burke L, Carr N, Millings M, Robinson G, Surridge E. 2023. Making Good?: A Study of How Senior Penal Policy Makers Narrate Policy Reversal The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Millings M, Burke L, Annison H, Carr N, Robinson G, Surridge E. 2023. A necessary but painful journey: Experiences of unification in a probation service region Probation Journal, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Burke L, Millings MN, Taylor S, Ragonese EL. 2020. Transforming rehabilitation, emotional labour and contract delivery: A case study of a voluntary sector provider in an English resettlement prison International Journal of Law ,Crime and Justice, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Wells H, Millings M. 2019. Scrutinising the appeal of volunteer Community Speedwatch to policing leaders in England and Wales: Resources, responsivity and responsibilisation Policing and Society, 29 :376-391 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Millings M, Taylor S, Burke L, Ragonese E. 2019. Through the Gate: the implementation, management and delivery of resettlement service provision for short-term prisoners. Probation Journal, 66 :77-95 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Millings M, Burke L, Robinson G. 2019. Lost in Transition? The personal and professional challenges for probation leaders engaged in delivering public sector reform Probation Journal, 66 :60-76 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Taylor S, Burke L, Millings M, Ragonese E. 2017. Transforming Rehabilitation during a penal crisis: A case study of Through the Gate services in a resettlement prison in England and Wales European Journal of Probation, 9 :115-131 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Burke L, Millings M, Robinson G. 2017. Probation migration(s): Examining occupational culture in a turbulent field Criminology and Criminal Justice, 17 :192-208 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Robinson G, Burke L, Millings M. 2017. Probation, privatisation and legitimacy Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 56 :137-157 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Robinson G, Burke L, Millings M. 2016. Criminal Justice Identities in Transition: The Case of Devolved Probation Services in England and Wales British Journal of Criminology, 56 :161-178 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Worrall A, Corcoran M, Barrett GA, Beckett Wilson H, Burke L, Millings MN. 2015. Integrated Offender Management: Evaluation research in Merseyside and North Staffordshire Probation Quarterly, :28-30 Publisher Url Public Url

Millings M. 2013. Policing British Asian Identities: The Enduring Role of the Police in Young British Asian Men's Situated Negotiation of Identity and Belonging British Journal of Criminology, 53 :1075-1092 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Conference publication

Quigg Z, Timpson H, Butler N, Millings M, Harrison R. 2021. VIOLENCE REDUCTION UNITS: PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH TO PREVENTING VIOLENCE (ENGLAND AND WALES) INJURY PREVENTION, 27 :A59-A60 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Burke L, Millings M. The policy and process of sharing criminal justice policy across EU partners European Society of Criminology

Chapters

Millings M, Burke L, Robinson G. 2019. The ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ agenda in England and Wales: implications of privatisation Ugwudike P, Graham H, McNeill F, Raynor P, Taxman FS, Trotter C. The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice Routledge 9781138102057

Burke L, Millings M, Robinson G. 2017. Is constructive practice still possible in a competitive environment? Findings from a case study of a community rehabilitation company in England and Wales Evidence-Based Skills in Criminal Justice: International Research on Supporting Rehabilitation and Desistance :57-78

Mair G, Millings M. 2010. Arrest Referral and Drug Testing Hucklesby A, Wincup E. Drug Interventions in Criminal Justice :84-109 McGraw-Hill Education (UK). Maidenhead 9780335239726

Professional activities

Media Coverage:

ESRC-funded Rehabilitating Probation Project featured on Prison Radio Associations' 'The Secret Life of Prisons' podcast series 2024
www.cep-probation.org
pod.link

Napo Probation Reunification Webinar Series 2021

Research Grants Awarded:

ESRC, Rehabilitating Probation: Rebuilding culture, identity and legitimacy in a reformed public service (Ref ES/W001101/01), Research Team; Principal Investigator - Matthew Millings (LJMU); Co-Investigators - Lol Burke (LJMU); Gwen Robinson (University of Sheffield); Nicola Carr (University of Nottingham); Harry Annison (University of Southampton), Grant value (£): 704,043, Duration of research project: January 2022-December 2024. 2021

Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership, Evaluation of Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership Work Programme 2020-2021, Quigg, Z. (LJMU), Millings, M. (LJMU), Timpson, H. (LJMU), Butler, N. (LJMU), McCoy, E. (2020), Ashton, S. (Edgehill University), Hough, J. (Liverpool Hope University), Lightowlers, C. (University of Liverpool), Grant value (£): £50,000, Duration of research project: November 2020-March 2021. 2020

Lancashire Violence Reduction Unit, Evaluation of the Lancashire Knife Crime and Violence Reduction Unit work programme, Quigg, Z. (LJMU), Millings, M. (LJMU), Timpson, H. (LJMU), McManus, M. (LJMU), McCoy, E. (LJMU), Butler, N. (LJMU), Grant value (£): £30,000, Duration of research project: December 2019-March 2021. 2019

Merseyside Violence Reduction Unit, Evaluation of the Merseyside Violence Reduction Unit 2019-20 Work Programme, Quigg, Z. (LJMU), Millings, M. (LJMU), Ashton, S. (Edgehill University), Hough, J. (Liverpool Hope University), Timpson, H. (LJMU), Grant value (£): £30,000, Duration of research project: November 2019-March 2020. 2019

Merseyside Police, An Exploration of the Criminal, Dangerous and Anti-Social Use of Motorcycles across Merseyside, Research Team - Charlotte Watkinson, Matthew Millings and Daniel Silverstone (all LJMU), Grant value (£): 15,000, Duration of research project: 6 months. 2017

Liverpool John Moores Univeristy Quality Research Fund, A study of the extent to which the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda-led emphasis on resettlement is consumed by prisoners and embedded into the organizational working culture of the staff., Stuart Taylor, Lol Burke, Matthew Millings, Ester Ragonese (all LJMU), Grant value (£): 14,500. 2016

ESRC, Devolving Probation Services: An ethnographic study of the implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda (Ref ES/M000028/1), Research Team; Principal Investigator - Matthew Millings (LJMU); Co-Investigators - Lol Burke (LJMU) and Gwen Robinson (University of Sheffield), Grant value (£): 146,057, Duration of research project: February 2014-November 2015. 2014

European Commission, Reducing Reoffending in the European Union, Giles Barrett; Helen Beckett Wilson, Lol Burke, Matthew Millings (all LJMU), Grant value (£): 345,000, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2012

Bowland Charitable Trust (and Centre for Criminal Justice Studies), Examining Innovation at the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre, Research Team - George Mair (Liverpool Hope University) and Matthew Millings (LJMU), Grant value (£): 8,000, Duration of research project: 11 months. 2011

British Academy, The enduring role of the police in young British Asian men's situated negotiation of identity and belonging, Grant value (£): 3,430, Duration of research project: 11 months. 2011

Merseyside Police, Evaluation of Merseyside VRP 2021/22 (whole system and selected interventions), Zara Quigg; Hannah Timpson; Beccy Harrison; Ellie McCoy; Nadia Butler, Grant value (£): £100,000, Duration of research project: 12-months.

Conference presentation:

Lost in Transition? The personal and professional challenges for probation leaders engaged in delivering public sector reform (wth Lol Burke and Gwen Robinson), Annual Meeting of the European Society of Criminology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovinaa, Oral presentation. 2018

Through the Gate: the implementation, management and delivery of resettlement service provision for short-term prisoners (with Stuart Taylor, Lol Burke and Ester Ragonese), Annual Meeting of the European Society of Criminology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oral presentation. 2018

Embedding evidence-based practice in public protection and crime prevention: A multi-disciplinary approach, The N8 Police Research Partnership: Mobilising Data to Inform Policing Research and Practice, Leeds Open Data Institute, Oral presentation. 2017

The Merseyside Police Knowledge Fund Collaboration, The College of Policing National Showcase of the Police Knowledge Fund Project, College of Policing, Ryton, Oral presentation. 2017

Probation Leaders Experience of ImplementingTransforming Rehabiliation Reform, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, Oral presentation. 2016

Embedding Evidence Based Practice in Public Protection and Crime Prevention, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, Oral presentation. 2016

Embedding Practitioner-Academic Collaborative Research Partnerhsips in Practice, College of Policing Research Showcase Event, Ryton, College of Policing, Poster presentation. 2016

Probation in the public and private sectors: the case of England & Wales (with Lol Buke and Gwen Robinson as Invited Keynote speakers), EU COST Action on Offender Supervision in Europe Final International Conference, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, Oral presentation. 2016

Devolving Probation Services - Workshop on Probation Leaders' assessment of the research (wth Lol Burke and Gwen Robinson), Probation Leaders' Workshop to engage with findings from ESRC 'Devolving Probation Services' Project, LJMU, Oral presentation. 2015

Reducing Reoffending in the EU: Emerging Lessons for the Research (with Giles Barrett, Lol Burke and Helen Beckett Wilson), EU funded Reducing Reoffending End of Project Conference, Hilton Hotel, Liverpool, Oral presentation. 2015

Becoming a CRC: Experiencing Transforming Rehabilitation in England and Wales (with Lol Burke and Gwen Robinson), Annual Meeting of the European Society of Criminology, Porto, Portugal, Oral presentation. 2015

Scrutinising Data to Gauge Intervention Impact, EU Reducing Reoffending Project Workshop, The Hague, Oral presentation. 2015

Probation identities in transition: a case study in one CRC (with Gwen Robinson and Lol Burke), European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions and Measures, Annual Seminar, School of Law, University of Sheffield, Oral presentation. 2015

The Politics and Process of Sharing Criminal Justice Policy across EU partners (with Lol Burke), Annual Meeting of the European Society of Criminology, Prague, Czech Republic, Oral presentation. 2014

Perpetrators experience of domestic abuse intervention work (with Marcelle Thomas-Jackson), Launch event for Merseyside Community Rehabilitation Company HELP Programme, LJMU, Oral presentation. 2014

Doing Justice Locally: The North Liverpool Community Justice Centre, International Symposium on Specialist Courts and Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Balliol College, University of Oxford, Symposium. 2012

Doing justice differently, doing justice locally, but doing justice better?: Assessing the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre’s ability to deliver the Community Justice Ideal, Annual Meeting of the British Society of Criminology, University of Northumbria, Oral presentation. 2011

Lessons from the North Liverpool Community Centre in Innovating Problem-Solving Justice, Magistrate's Association Seminar Series, Keele University, Oral presentation. 2011

Doing Justice Locally: Reflecion on Innovation at a Problem Solving Court in England (with George Mair), Annual Meeting of the European Society of Criminology, Liege, Belgium, Oral presentation. 2010

Policing British Asian Identities, Annual Meeting of the British Society of Criminology, University of Leicester, Oral presentation. 2010

External PGR examinations performed:

University of Central Lancashire, PhD, Exploring the Behaviour of Foraging Burglary Offenders and Predictive Police Interventions to Prevent and Reduce their Offending. 2018

University of Central Lancashire, PhD, Protecting Vulnerable People: An Exploration of the Risk Factors and Processes Associated with Lancashire’s Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs. 2017

University of Leicester, PhD, Police-Faith Relations: Perceptions, Experiences and Challenges. 2017

Award:

Chief Officer's Commendation (September 2017) - 'For professionalism and commitment to supporting the development of police officers and staff through evidence based research thus creating a more efficient and effective service for the communities of Merseyside’, Merseyside Police. 2017

British Society of Criminology's Policing Network's Paper of the Year 2014, http://www.britsoccrim.org/new/?q=node/12. 2014

Teaching qualification:

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 2015