In recognition of the increasingly global, mobile, and transnational nature of harms and crimes, SCCJR has established a specific strategy focusing on international engagement and mobility.
This represents an effort to develop SCCJR’s role in the global community of criminology, fostering research excellence through international comparison, dialogue, and debate. Through international engagement the SCCJR seeks to build links with scholars and organisations around the world who are best placed to collaborate on issues of global reach and to facilitate the Centre contributing to a critical, global understanding of crime, harm, and justice, thereby playing a progressive role in scholarship and policy. We continually seek out opportunities to this effect, which will provide a mutually beneficial experience for both members of the SCCJR and our partner organisations whilst also nurturing the next generation of global criminological scholarship.
In 2018 SCCJR formalised partnerships with five internationally renowned criminological research centres and departments: the Universities of Toronto, Oslo, Hong Kong, Leuven and the Queensland University of Technology. In 2021 SCCJR welcomed a new partnership with Tashkent State University of Law.
To promote knowledge exchange and cross-institutional linkages, the SCCJR has an international mobility fund which aims to promote inward and outward mobility between all institutions. This fund can provide small grants, especially between SCCJR and its partners to facilitate exchanges, and may be supported by match funding from one’s home institution. For information about visiting one of the SCCJR universities as a visiting fellows, check out our Visiting SCCJR page.