Dr. Mairead Seymour

Biography

Mairéad Seymour is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages, Law and Social Sciences. She holds degrees in social sciences (BSocSc. UCD), criminal justice management (MSc. QUB), and criminology (PhD QUB) and a postgraduate qualification in third level learning and teaching (PGC. DIT). She was appointed to the position of lecturer in the School in 2003 and to Senior Lecturer in 2008. Previously she worked at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast and the Centre for Social for Social and Educational Research (DIT). She has acted as Principal Investigator on a number of funded projects and has undertaken research for the Department of Justice and Equality, the Probation Service, the Probation Board for Northern Ireland, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, the Irish Research Council (formerly IRCHSS), the Irish Penal Reform Trust and Business in the Community. Her book ‘Youth Justice in Context: Community, Compliance and Young People’ Mairéad currently supervises PhD theses on probation-led conferencing for young offenders, prisoner reintegration, and the perspectives and experiences of parents in the youth justice system. 

Research Interest

Her research interests encompass youth justice, probation, community supervision, offender compliance, prisoner reintegration, desistance, procedural justice and comparative criminal justice.