About Dr Lynne Graham
I joined the University of Sunderland in February 2023 as an Academic Tutor and progressed to Business Lecturer in September 2023. I deliver seminars across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate Business and Management modules.
Before this, I worked at Newcastle College as Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Business Management, overseeing the academic leadership and delivery of the programme.
I hold a First-Class undergraduate degree, a Distinction at master’s level, and a PGCE (Post-Compulsory Education) from the University of Sunderland, as well as a PhD in Criminology from Northumbria University.
Teaching and supervision
I apply my passion for Green Criminology research to business teaching by exploring how issues of power, justice, and regulation shape organisational behaviour and corporate ethics. My work on species justice and crimes of the powerful enriches teaching on business ethics, governance, and sustainability by highlighting the consequences of organisational actions and regulatory gaps.
I'm currently teaching on these modules:
- Business Consultancy
- HRM in An International And Digital Context
- Resourcing for Sustainable Performance
- Talent Management and Resourcing For Sustainable Performance
Interests
- Ethnographic and qualitative research methods
- Activist scholarship and social justice research
- Species justice and the policing of animal activism
- Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Animals, ethics, and organisational responsibility
- Social Harm, regulatory capture and the role of powerful industries
- Greenwashing practices, corporate sustainability claims, and the masking of organisational harm and accountability
Research
My research interests are driven by concerns about harm to non-human animals, which led me toward Green Criminology. My work focuses on species justice and the unequal application of the law in cases involving powerful actors.
I specialise in domestic wildlife crime and the policing of organised fox hunting, exploring how power shapes who is protected, and how justice is applied.
My doctoral thesis, “No justice, just us: A mixed-methods ethnographic study of organised fox hunting and anti-hunt activism in England and Wales”, examines the policing of fox hunting and anti-hunt activism under the Hunting Act (2004), framing fox hunting as a “crime of the powerful” and highlighting systemic failures in protecting wildlife and those advocating for them.