I am a first-year PhD student in criminology at the University of Glasgow, funded by an ESRC Doctoral Scholarship through the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences (SGSSS). I am also a fellow of the Stuart Hall Foundation and a member of its peer network, as well as a member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.
Before beginning my PhD, I was a researcher at the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (based at the University of Strathclyde), working across a number of projects relating to children in conflict with the law. For several years, I was based in London as Research and Policy Officer at StopWatch UK, a criminal justice charity committed to turning a spotlight on stop and search, police abuse of power, and the over-policing of racialised and marginalised communities. Before taking up my role at StopWatch, I worked in academic publishing at Oxford University Press.
I am also a freelance researcher and writer, having worked on a range of criminal justice topics, including women’s problem-solving courts (ongoing project), stop and search and other police powers, civil-criminal hybrid orders (in particular, serious violence reduction orders and knife crime prevention orders), and deaths in custody.
My academic background is in law, languages, and social science: I have an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford (2021, Distinction) and an LLB (Hons) Law and French from the University of Edinburgh (2019, First Class). I was awarded the St Cross Divisional Scholarship in the Social Sciences at Oxford, and was a recipient of the McClintock Prize in Criminology and the Joelle Godard Prize while at Edinburgh.
I also love cooking, reading, hiking, long-distance running, cycling, crochet, the cinema, and public transport. 🤠
My academic email address is: h.bird.2@research.gla.ac.uk
Holly Bird 