Dr Deborah Jump

My profile

Biography

Academic and professional qualifications

  • PhD in Criminology from University of Manchester
  • Fellowship of Higher Education Authority (FHEA)
  • Masters in Criminology from University of Manchester 
  • Bachelors in Sociology from Manchester Metropolitan University

Other academic service (administration and management)

Deputy Director for the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies (MCYS)

Expert reviewer for external funding bodiesCommunity, charity and NGO links

Chair of board of trustees for Collyhurst and Moston Boxing Gym

Government and industry links

  • 2018 Shortlisted for Man Met Early Career Researcher of the Year
  • 2017 Vice Chancellor’s PhD scholarship scheme
  • 2016 MMU’s Research Accelerator Grant 
  • 2010 Graduate Teaching Associate PhD scholarship University of Manchester 
  • 2006 Winston Churchill Fellowship Award

Editorial Board membership

Editorial Board member for Journal of Contemporary Harm, Crime and Ethics

Membership of professional associations

  • Member of International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy
  • Member of British Psychoanalytical Council Scholars Network
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (awarded 2015)
  • Member of the British Society of Criminology

Interests and expertise

Interests include: Trauma and its relationship to violence, boxing, masculinity and violence, youth justice, forensic psychoanalysis, ethnnographic and narrative methods,  

Impact

Jump, D. and Gray, P. (2024) ‘Partners in Crime: Integrating Forensic Psychotherapy into Criminological Discourse’. The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy, 6(1):86-99.

Jump, D and Horan. R (2024) Girls and Gangs: A Decade on From the Firmin Report and What Has Changed? Violence Against Women 1–19

Smithson, H and Jump, D (2024) Unmasked and Exposed: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Youth Custodial Estate. A Compelling Case for Ideological Change. The British Journal of Criminology, 1–19

Jump, D and Hills, S (2024) All Party Parliamentary Group Report: Boxing and its Societal Effects. A Literature Review.

Gray, P., Jump, D. & Smithson, H. (2023) Adverse Childhood Experiences & Serious Youth Violence, Policy Press, Bristol.

Jump, D; Smithson, H; Nisbet; A. (2022) The Youth Justice System’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Impact in a Secure Children’s Home. Briefing paper      

Smithson, H., & Jump, D. Nisbet; A. (2022) The Youth Justice System’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Impact on Youth Custody. Briefing paper 

Gray, P., Smithson, H., & Jump, D.  (2021) Serious Youth Violence and its Relationship with Adverse Childhood Experiences Youth Justice Board Report 17th May 2021

Jump, D (2020) The Criminology of Boxing Desistance & Violence. Policy Press. Bristol

Jump, D; Smithson, H; (2020) Dropping your Guard: The effectiveness of Youth Participatory Action Research in a young person’s boxing and desistance workshop. International Journal of Sport and Society

Jump, D (2020) “Look who is laughing now”: Physical capital, boxing and the prevention of repeat victimisation in Youth Violence Framed: Disrupting Discourses Special Edition. Onati-Social Legal Series. Vol XX

McMahon, G and Jump, D (2017) Starting to Stop? Desistance: An exploration of young offender’s narratives, Youth Justice, SAGE Publications

Jump, D (2017) Why we should think some more. A response to ‘when you’re boxing you don’t think so much: Pugilism, transitional masculinities and criminal desistance among young Danish gang members. Journal of Youth Studies Vol 20

Jump, D (2016) ‘They didn’t know whether to fuck me or fight me’, in Mischief, Morality and Mobs, Essays in Memory of Geoff Pearson by Dick Hobbs (Ed). London: Routledge

Jump, D (2015) Fighting for Change: Narrative accounts on the appeal and desistance potential of boxing. Howard League ECAN Bulletin May edition 2015

Projects

2024 £40,000 (PI)  Evaluation of Greater Manchester Custody Funding Pilot

2024 £100,000 (CI)  Evaluation of Greater Manchester Remand Funding Pilot

2021 £70,000 (PI) Digital Technologies for Social Change

2020 £363,131,00 (CI) UKRI: The Youth Justice System’s Response to the Covid 19 Crisis: Implications and Impact.

2020 £40,000 (PI) Comic Relief Getting out for Good Covid Recovery Fund. The impact of digital packages on sexual exploitation and adolescent mental health

2020 £3,500 (PI) England Boxing: Evaluation of MST programme on knife crime in the North West.

2020 £7658 (PI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) A transnational policy transfer for girls affected by gangs in Bogota, Colombia

2019 £100,000 (CI) Research using an experience -based co-design approach to develop effective practice to address serious youth violence

2019 £93,690,00 (CI) Youth Endowment Fund: Creating Futures through Boxing Feasibility Evaluation

2019 £106,068,00 (CI) Youth Endowment Fund: Inspiring Futures Rugby Feasibility Evaluation

2018 £127,182,00 (CI) Young Manchester Evaluation of #IWILL Fund.

2018 £100,000 (CI) Sport Relief Kicking Crime into Touch: Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, with MMU Sport, and Greater Manchester Youth Justice Services.

2017 £45,000 (DoS) PVC PhD Scholarship Scheme: Championing Change: Promoting Desistance through Sport- Full time bursary awarded to a student in my chosen research area

2017 £450,000 (PI) Comic Relief: Getting out for Good: working with young women at risk of serious violence and sexual exploitation across Greater Manchester.

2016 £7,000 Research Accelerator Grant (PI). Prestigious award to develop early career academics’ research areas at Manchester Metropolitan University. This grant developed the international element of my work into sport, crime, and serious youth violence.

2010     £45,000 GTA Scholarship fully funded PhD, University of Manchester

2006     £8,000 Winston Churchill Memorial Fund Scholarship: How effective is sport on youth crime in the USA

Teaching

Subject areas

Course tutor for MA Applied Criminology Justice and Theory Modules.

Supervision

  • Principal Supervisor- How do children’s interactions with appropriate adults, legal representatives and advocates at police interview impact their outcome and shape their trajectory in the Youth Justice System
  • Second Supervisor- The Impossibility of Being a Girl – a verse novel (English & Creative Writing)

Research outputs

Deborah Jump is the Deputy Director for the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University and has over 20 years’ experience of working in youth justice as both a practitioner and manager. Deborah has implemented various youth justice programmes during this time and led on a Home Office pilot intervention concerning young people and substance misuse. Deborah’s current research focuses on trauma and youth justice, with a particular interest in the impact of serious youth violence and forensic psychotherapeutic methods.  I have a particular interest in the impact of boxing on serious youth violence and sexual exploitation. I am named on various grants housed within the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, mainly those focused on serious youth violence, trauma and youth justice. 

Press and media

Media appearances or involvement

I have featured on BBC News at Ten for the Getting out for Good Project , as well as BBC Sport Relief and BBC Comic Relief as part of their project fundraising campaigns. I have also appeared on BBC Radio 5 live for the Kicking Crime into Touch project in as well as BBC Radio Manchester for the second phase of the Getting out for Good Project in. I have appeared on BBC Radio 4 with Nikesh Shukla for the One-to-One series, and Radio 4 Thinking Allowed discussing my research into boxing and  violence. I have also provided expert opinion to The Manchester Evening News and Good Morning Britain.