Professor Derek McGhee

Derek McGhee

BSc MA PhD

School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Professor of Sociology
Telephone: (023) 8059 4807
Email: D.P.McGhee@soton.ac.uk

Biography

Derek McGhee joined the Division in January 2000. He studied for his first degree in the Department of Sociology at the University of Plymouth, and then completed an MA in Cultural Studies and a PhD in Sociology at Lancaster University. His teaching interests reflect his research interests and also encompass criminology. He is the author of three research monographs Homosexuality, Law & Resistance, (Routledge 2001) and Intolerant Britain? Hate, Citizenship & Difference (Open University Press 2005). His latest book, The End of Multiculturalism? Terrorism, Integration & Human Rights, was published in May 2008 (Open University Press). http://mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335223923.html

Research interests

Derek McGhee's most recent research examines community cohesion, counter terrorism and human rights. His latest book The End of Multiculturalism? Terrorism, Integration & Human Rights, was published May 2008 (Open University Press) this book examines anti-terrorism legislation in general with a particular focus on the impact on the deportation of terror suspects & on Muslim communities, as well as the introduction of unnacceptable behaviour measures in the Terrorism Act of 2006; the development of 'broader' community-based counter-terrorism strategies in the UK; the relationship between community cohesion, integration and multiculturalism in contemporary public policy; the threat to and promotion of a human rights culture in the UK; as well as a critical engagement with new 'Britishness' discourses in the UK. Derek McGhee is currently writing a number of papers on the: (1) the recommendations made by the Commission on Integration and Community Cohesion, (2) Deportation and the right to have rights, (3)rights and duties - security and liberty; and, (4) an article based on research conducted with Bhopal and Myer on the Secondary Education and Gypsy Traveller Pupils (Funded by West Sussex County Council).

Teaching activities

Derek McGhee usually teaches in year 1, 2 and 3 on our undergraduate programmes. He convenes the following units: SOCI2006: Crime and Society and he convenes the single unit SOCI3010: Crime, Space and Social Control and its co-requisite (project unit)SOCI3043.

Derek McGhee also teaches on PGT units and supervizes and 6 MPhil/PhD students.

Work in progress

As well as working on a range of different journal articles and book chapters, Derek McGhee is currently working on a new book, which will be published by Palgrave MacMillan. The working title of this book is: Security, Citizenship & Human Rights - Shared Values in Uncertain Times This book will examine security, identity and citizenship through a number of case studies: the securitization and desecuritization of human rights; the relationship between the 'earned citizenship' proposals and the managed migration points system; the relationship between PREVENT (counter-terrorism 'community' policing) and Britain's new Border control systems; and the debates on rights, responsibilities and citizenship in the potential British Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities). The manuscript for this book has been submitted (Dec 2009). Derek's recent research interest include working on articles on moderate secularism, religious identities in the public sphere. RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS: ESRC Centre for Population Change, project with Prof Sue Heath and Prof Allan Findlay, Research family and household transitions amongst new European migrants in England and Scotland. Exploration of the work of the Traveller Education Service in West Sussex (with Dr Kalwant Bhopal and Martin Myer): Funder: West Sussex Council. Evaluating London Probation's gang and hate crime training (with Dr Rosie Meek). Funder: London probation. Exploration of the economic impact of new EU migration on Southampton (with Dr Pauline Leonard). Funder: The Improvement and Development Agency. Consultancy: I am the academic consultant on London Probation's Diversity and Prejudice toolkit. Funder: London Probation.

Roles

Head of Division (Sociology, Social Policy and Applied Social Sciences)

Selected publications

Books
 Derek McGhee to be published Security, Citizenship & Human Rights: Shared values in Uncertain Times. Palgrave., in press
 Derek McGhee 2008 The End of Multiculturalism? Terrorism, Integration & Human Rights The End of Multiculturalism? Terrorism, Integration & Human Rights. Open University Press.
 Derek McGhee 2005 Intolerant Britain? Hate, Citizenship & Difference  On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0335216749), (ISSN: 100335216749), published
 Derek McGhee 2001 Homosexuality, Law and Resistance. Routledge.  On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0-415-24902-3)
Chapters in books
 Derek McGhee 2006 Community Safety and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities Community Safety: Critical Perspectives on Policy & Practice, Peter Squires (ed) (pp. 35-52)  On-line abstract
 Leslie J. Moran and Derek McGhee 2000 Perverting London: The Cartographic Practices of Law Sexuality in the Legal Arena, Carl Stychin and Didi Herman (Eds) (pp. 100-110), (ISSN: 0 485 00609)
Articles in journals
 Derek McGhee 2009 The Paths to Citizenship: A Critical Examination of Immigration Policy in Britain Since 2001. Patterns of Prejudice, 43 (1), 41-64.
 Derek McGhee 2008 Deportation, Detention & Torture by Proxy: Foreign National Terror Suspects in the UK. Liverpool Law Review, 29 (1), 99-115.
 Derek McGhee 2008 'A Past Built On Difference, a Future Which Is Shared' - A Critical Examination OfTthe Recommendations Made By The Commission On Integration & Community Cohesion. People, Place & Policy, 2 (2), 48-64.
 Derek McGhee 2007 The Challenge of working with racially motivated offenders: an exercise in ambivalence? Probation Journal, 54 (3), 213-227.  On-line abstract, (ISSN: 0264-5505)
 Derek McGhee 2006 The New Commission for Equality and Human Rights: Building Community Cohesion and Revitalizing Citizenship in Contemporary Britain. Ethnopolitics, 5 (2), 125-144.  On-line abstract, (ISSN: 1744-9057)
 Derek McGhee 2006 Getting 'Host' Communities on Board: Finding the Balance Between 'Managed Migration' and 'Managed Settlement' in Community Cohesion Strategies. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32 (1), 111-128.  On-line abstract, (ISSN: 1369-183X)
 Derek McGhee 2005 Patriots of the Future? A critical examination of community cohesion strategies in contemporary Britain. Sociological Research Online, n/a., (ISSN: 100335216749)
 Derek McGhee 2004 Beyond Toleration: Privacy, Citizenship and Sexual Minorities in England and Wales. British Journal of Sociology, 55 (3), 357-377.  On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0007-1315), (ISSN: 0007-1315)
 Derek McGhee 2003 Moving to 'our' common ground - a critical examination of community cohesion discourse in twenty-first century Britain. Sociological Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, 376-404.  On-line abstract, (ISSN: 0038-0261)
 Derek McGhee 2003 Joined-up government, 'Community Safety' and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender 'active citizens' Critical Social Policy, Vol.23, No.3, 345-374.  On-line abstract
 Derek McGhee 2003 Feminist Review. Queer Strangers: Lesbian and Gay Refugees, 73, 145-148., (ISSN: 1-4039-1258-0)
 Derek McGhee 2003 Hidden Targets, Hidden Harms: Community Safety and Sexual Minority Communities. Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal, 5 (4), 27-40., (ISSN: 1460-3780)
 Kaeren Harrison and Derek McGhee 2003 Reading and Writing Family Secrets: Reflections on Mass-Observation. Auto/biography, xi (1 & 2), 25-36., (ISSN: 0967-5507)
 Derek McGhee 2001 Persecution and Social Group Status: Homosexual refugees in the 1990s. Journal of Refugee Studies, 14 (1), 20-42., (ISSN: 09516328)
 Derek McGhee 2001 Homosexuality & Refugee Status in the UK. Sociological Research On-line
 Derek McGhee 2000 Accessing Homosexuality: Truth, Evidence and the Legal Practices for Determining Refugee Status - The Case of Ioan Vraciu. Body & Society, volume 6 number 1
 Derek McGhee 2000 Wolfenden and the Fear of 'Homosexual Spread': Permeable Boundaries and Legal Defences. Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 21, 65-100., (ISSN: 0-7623-0746-3)
 Derek McGhee 2000 Falling (in Love) - Falling (in Death). Space and Culture, 7, 8 & 9, 155-164., (ISSN: 1206-3312)
 Derek McGhee 1998 Looking and Acting the Part: Gays in the Armed Forces A Case of Passing Masculinity. Feminist Legal Studies, volume VI number 2
 Derek McGhee and Leslie Moran 1998 Perverting London: The Cartographic Practices of Law. Law and Critique, volume IX number 2
Reports
 D.McGhee and P.Leonard 2009 The Economic Benefits of A8 EU In-Migration to Southampton. Report to IDEA/Southampton City Council
 Derek McGhee and Pauline Leonard 2008 'Give and Take' - European Accession State Migration to Southampton. Report to Southampton City Council and the Improvement and development Agency, Funded By the Improvement and Development Agency
 Kalwant Bhopal, Martin Myers & Derek McGhee 2008 A Pilot Study to Investigate the Barriers to Educational Inclusion for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children in West Sussex. Report to West Sussex Council (Minority Ethnic Services)
 McGhee, D & Meek, R. 2008 Together but Different: Evaluation Report of London Probation's Gang and Hate Crime Pilot Training Project in Lambeth and Southwark. Report to London Probation, Funded by Model Borough Pathfinder Project.