1. Criminology in the Professions
Some instructions for your participation
Life after Criminology Presentations:
Following on from the IT sessions, prepare a 5 minute presentation on Life after
Criminology using 6 attractive power-point slides which you will upload onto
Blackboard.
You can do the following:
Concentrate on one particular career strand/post graduate course/training
opportunity/travel opportunity in detail;
Do a more general presentation and cover a number of different examples, if
you are interested in lots different things (but remember that you only have 5
mins);
If you don’t know what you want to do, you could identify where you might
look for information to help your career planning eg detailing specific
websites or even reflective exercises (career anchors/dots analysis);
You could reflect about whether there are opportunities to start your own
business.
Criteria:
Presentations must be kept to exactly 5 minutes.
Tutors will indicate when you have 30 seconds remaining, and will stop you at
5 minutes.
You must use 6 power-point slides to illustrate your presentation.
Presentations will be informally commented on by the tutor in the seminars,
but will be loaded on blackboard and form part of the participation mark.
Seminar Leadership: Practitioner seminars:
Each of you will have been allocated to a group that is responsible for taking part in
leading a seminar based on one of the practitioner lectures:
Please work together with your group and don’t expect others to do all of the
work.
Your group will be expected to take the seminar in much the same way as the member
of staff does, in other words you need to engage your student colleagues in
discussions and tasks. It is important to note however that you do not need to entertain
your audience for 50 minutes! You are much better setting tasks for your colleagues
to do rather than talking at them….In other words…get the class to engage with you
and do some of the work!
You could:
Set the seminar group some questions or tasks related to the practitioner
lecture, and put them in groups to discuss these and then get them to report
back to the rest of the class.
Set the class a quiz.

2. Criminology in the Professions
Do a short presentation, or show them some pertinent images, websites or
YouTube clips on the agency or related issues and get the class to discuss
these.
Make a video-podcast
Think about how staff run seminars… and have a go yourself…see if you can do a
better job!!!
Be innovative and creative; think what sort of seminar you would find interesting.
This task gives you some really good skills that you can put on your CV. In many
graduate jobs you will have to organise other members of staff and direct meetings,
do presentations to management or customers, encourage other staff to solve problems
that the company or organisation has. These are the very skills that you will be
experiencing in doing this task.