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Sally Day

(She/her)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law, University of Exeter

Dr Sally Day is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Sally is a criminologist, with a profile centred on the critical examination of state-corporate and safety crimes. A central theme of her work is survivorship and resistance strategies to state-corporate harms, focusing on the 1989 Hillsborough disaster in the UK and the 2010 Pike River mine disaster in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sally uses in-depth, qualitative methods to explore experiences of state corporate victimisation in a political climate of denial, collusion, and cover-up.

Sally is currently working with Professor Richard Moorhead (Exeter), Professor Rebecca Helm (Exeter), and Dr Karen Nokes (UCL) on a three year ESRC funded project 'Professional Pathologies, Causal Pathways and the Post Office Miscarriages of Justice.'

Dr Day joined Exeter Law School as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2023. She holds a PhD, Master's, Honours, and Undergraduate degree in Criminology from Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Prior to joining the Law School at Exeter, Sally was a Research Assistant, Tutor, and Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University.