Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Bristol

Governance and delivery of prison health are my primary research interests. My recent monograph, The English Prison Health System After a Decade of Austerity (2023), was shortlisted for the Social Policy Association’s Richard Titmuss Award, the British Academy’s Peter Townsend Award, and the British Society of Criminology’s book award for advancing the fields of social policy and criminology.

My research has informed the work of the World Health Organization, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, the House of Commons Justice Committee, the National Audit Office, the Howard League for Penal Reform, and Prison Reform International. My work has also been featured in major media outlets such as Byline Times, The Guardian, the Daily Mirror, and Al Jazeera.

I am currently a principal investigator for a British Academy–funded project that is evaluating the degree to which Southeast Asia prisons are prepared in the event of future pandemics. As both a principal investigator and a co-investigator on projects such as this one and numerous others, I have generated over £500,000 in external funding.