Laura Kelly-Corless

Laura is the course leader for Criminology and Criminal Justice and Criminology and Sociology at BA level, and teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate Criminology programmes. Laura is a leading UK scholar in the area of d/Deaf prisoners, receiving her PhD in 2017, before going on to publish her findings in a number of peer reviewed journals. In 2017, she was awarded Prison Service Journal outstanding article of the year, and has since been interviewed on numerous local and national TV/radio shows about her work. Laura facilitates a student/prisoner debating programme at HMP Kirkham, and has carried out post doctoral research in a number of areas.