Liz Cain
Head of Sociology and Reader in Applied Social Research
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
MA (Sociology), PGC-AP, BA (hons) Combined Honours, TESOL certificate
Other academic service (administration and management)
I am currently the Deputy Programme Leader in the Sociology department. My role includes managing options information, exceptional factors and coordinating documentation required for external examination purposes.
I am also the joint coordinator for Q-Step in the Community, part of the Q-Step project
External examiner roles
External examiner for Cardiff Metropolitan University (Social Sciences Foundation Year) 2008-2013
Community, charity and NGO links
I am the joint coordinator of Q-Step in the Community coordinator, part of the Q-Step project. This, along with unit leadership of Volunteering and Communtiy Networking has given me the opportunity to make a number of links with voluntary organisations and community groups across Greater Manchester.
Membership of professional associations
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Voluntary Sector Studies Network
Projects
BAWP (British Association for Women in Policing): collaborative project with Wendy Laverick, examining the impact of austerity measures and policing reforms on the female police workforce
Teaching
Subject areas
Sociology
Research outputs
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Reports
Westall, A., Cain, E., De-Santis, L. (2021) An Evaluation of the Reverse Mentoring Pilot Programme within Greater Manchester Police. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Cain, E., Goldring, J.E. (2018) WhatsApp as a debt advice channel: Reaching people other advice channels do not reach. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Cain, E., Goldring, J.E. (2018) From Prescribing to Advising: ‘A Weight Lifted Off My Shoulders’: An Evaluation of Citizens Advice Manchester's GP Advice on Prescription Service. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Goldring, J.E., Cain, E., Burvill, G., August, S., Wade, A., Hargreaves, I., Aavik, B. (2017) An Invisible Workforce: An Investigation into the Support Needs of Online Sex Workers. Manchester Metropolitan University/Q-Step Project.
Cain, E., Goldring, J.E., Scott Jones, J., Watt, S., Simpson, N., Massey, S. (2015) Saving Lives With Advice: The Impact of Advice on the Health and Wellbeing of Citizens Advice Manchester clients. https://www.onestopadvice.org.uk/.
Laverick, W., Cain, E.C. (2014) Policing Reform: Consequences for the Gender Agenda and the Female Police Workforce.
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Journal articles
Cain, L., Goldring, J., Westall, A. (2022) 'Seeing behind the curtain: Reverse Mentoring within the Higher Education landscape.' Teaching in Higher Education, pp. 1-16.
Cain, L., Goldring, J.E., Scott Jones, J. (2021) 'Getting students out there; using community partnerships to engage students.' Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 12(4) pp. 763-774.
Laverick, W., Joyce, P., Calvey, D., Cain, L. (2019) 'The menopause and the female police workforce.' British Journal of Community Justice, 15(2) pp. 59-81.
Laverick, W., Cain, L. (2015) 'The Gender Agenda in an Age of Austerity.' Policing, 9(4) pp. 362-376.
Cain, L., Pople, I. (2011) 'The Dialect of the Tribe.' Journal of Academic Writing, 1(1) pp. 46-53.
Pople, I., Cain, L. (2010) 'Manchester life and language: British cultural ethnography for international students.' Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 4(2) pp. 93-99.
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Theses and dissertations
Westall, A. (2019) Volunteer street patrols : an ethnographic study of three Manchester volunteer street patrols and their role in community safety and the policing family.