Dr Jade Levell is a Senior Lecturer in Social and Public Policy (Criminology and Gender Violence). Research interests include adverse childhood experiences, childhood domestic violence, on-road and gang subcultures, music, organised crime, masculinity theory, DVA perpetrators, creative research methods including music elicitation, feminist praxis. She is particularly interested in the tensions between victim/perpetrators, masculinity/vulnerability, and the interplay between domestic violence and serious youth violence. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence.

Dr Levell has written two books and edited one collection. Her first book, Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse, and Gang Involvement: Violence at Home, Violence On-Road was published in June 2022 with Policy Press. It was recommended by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales. She has also co-edited a collection released in 2023 with Dr Tara Young and Dr Rod Earle entitled; Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm: Critical Questions of Youth, Gender and Race On-road. Dr Levell's third book was published in 2024 and was based on her innovative work using music elicitation as a research and intervention tool with young men in prison in Albania, entitled; Music, Mattering, and Criminalized Young Men: Exploring Music Elicitation as a Feminist Arts-Based Research and Intervention Tool. 

Dr Levell has experience of working internationally. In 2020-2022 she was part of 'The Other Side of the Story: Perpetrators in Change' (OSSPC), funded by the European Commission, with NGO partners in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and Romania. This work led to her nomination to the Board of Working With Perpetrators Europe (WWPEN). From 2021-2023 Dr Levell worked in a large interdisciplinary study and development project in Albania. Dr Levell was a delegate for UN Women UK at CSW67 and CSW68.

Prior to academia, Jade worked for over a decade in charities that work to end gender-based violence; in support work; policy work; strategic coordination; and professional training. This diverse range of grassroots advocacy and activism work informs her research practice. In recognition of this work she was nominated for a national Women’s Aid ‘Empowering Women Award’ (2013).