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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Nottingham Trent University

Dr Irene Zempi is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. She is the Chair of the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network, a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Sociological Research Online, a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hate Studies, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Irene has published widely on issues of hate crime and researcher positionality. She has provided written and oral evidence to parliamentary committees, and has been invited by the Law Commission to provide advice for the review of Hate Crime Legislation in England and Wales.

Experience

  • –present
    Director of the Nottingham Centre for Bias, Prejudice & Hate Crime, Nottingham Trent University