Keira Flanagan
Lecturer
Applied Arts
Waterford Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
Keira is currently enrolled in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social work at Queen's University Belfast PhD programme under the supervision of Dr. Michelle Butler and Dr. Siobhan McAllister. She is carrying out a primarily qualitative study exploring the impact of Secure Training Colleges in promoting desistance among imprisoned young men.
Research Interest
Criminological Psychology, Prison reform, Prison education, Desistance, Penal philosophy
