Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Uses and Misuses of the Antisocial Personality Disorder/psychopathy label
- Parole board decision making and desistance signaling
- Prisons and higher education
- Desistance, recovery and rethinking personality disorders
- Rehabilitative Culture in prisons and beyond
- Ex-Prisoner organisations and social movement theory
Public outreach & key achievements
- Promoting ‘Good Lives’ for Offenders: A New Framework for Rehabilitation
- Transforming offender rehabilitation
- Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past
- Discovering Desistance
Research students
| PhD Title | Developing a Measure of Desistance Self-Narrative for a UK Prison Population |
| Name | Karen Johnson |
| Years of Study | 2017-2023 (PT) |
| Country | UK |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | Violent Capital |
| Name | Dr. Brendan Marsh |
| Years of Study | 2012-2017 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | PostDoctoral Researcher, Trinity College Dublin |
| PhD Title | Desistance from Sex Offending |
| Name | Dr. Mark Farmer |
| Year of Study | 2012-2017 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | National Specialist Lead – Sexual Offending Programmes, HM Prison and Probation Service |
| PhD Title | Attachment theory and probation practice |
| Name | Dr. Maria Ansbro |
| Year of Study | 2012-2017 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Senior Lecturer, Buckinghamshire New University |
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- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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