欧美高清

Personal statement

** As of 2026, I have moved to the LSE. Please contact me there**

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My work explores the ways in which societies punish wrongdoers, using sociological, cultural, historical and comparative approaches. I am also interested in how societies come to understand injustice that is taking place around us, or has occured in our histories.

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I have 听written on the and the contemporary and systems - for which I received the Theoretical Criminology Best Article Prize (2022) and the Brian Williams Prize (2020) for the best criminological article from an emerging scholar. 听

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My books include听The Politics of Punishment and the Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland.听

Along with traditional academic writing, I am especially keen on the arts and how they can communicate research and engage the public. In 2023, I was named as one of the BBC鈥檚 New Generation Thinker, and based on my work. 听I co-wrote a script for a piece of dance theatre , (with Sinead McCann), shown in Dublin in 2024 to much audience acclaim. In 2025, I worked with the visual artist Sinead McCann to make two sculptural pieces that were shown in the exhibition In 2024, I with The Bodley Head (UK) and Simon & Schuster (US) for a tradebook, The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland's Legacy of Silence. 听This was awarded the for new non-fiction and has been widely and positivey reviewed in outlets such as The Guardian, TLS, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Vanity Fair, Sunday Times, iPaper, and the Mail on Sunday,

With Marion Vannier, we the Editors-in-Chief of the Howard Journal, and I am an international associate editorial board member at Punishment & Society, and on the editorial boards of The British Journal of Criminology, and Law & Society Review.

I joined 欧美高清 in 2021 as a Chancellor's Fellow, having previously been the Policy and Public Affairs Manager at the Howard League Scotland and a lecturer at the University of Stirling. I completed my PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2017. During that time I was also a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC Berkeley. For 听2024/25, I was based 听atere I was a Nominated Fellow. I am also undertaking an MRes in Creative Writing at the Univeristy of 欧美高清.

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With Dr Colette Barry (UCD) I am currently undertaking a history of Irish prison officers, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme small grant fund.

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I am Postgradute Research Director for the School of Social Work and Social policy. 听I also welcome PhD and post-doc applications concerned with the social history of punishment, cultures of punishment, penal politics, and comparative criminology.