Keynote Speaker

We are thrilled to announce Professor Shadd Maruna as the Keynote Speaker for our upcoming PhD conference 

Professor Shadd Maruna is the Head of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool and the Past President of the American Society of Criminology (2022-2024). Previously he has worked at the University of Cambridge, Queen's University Belfast, the University of Manchester, and Rutgers University (USA) where he was the Dean of the School of Criminal Justice. His book Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives was named the Outstanding Contribution to Criminology by the American Society of Criminology, and he was the recipient of the inaugural Research Medal from the Howard League for Penal Reform.