Heather Shore

Professor Heather Shore is a historian of crime and youth justice at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she serves as Director of the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage (MCPHH). She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate history courses and previously held positions at Leeds Beckett University and the University of Portsmouth.

Education includes:

• PhD History, Royal Holloway College, University of London (1996)
• MA Computer Applications in History, University of London (1992)
• BA (Hons) History, First Class, Polytechnic of North London (1991)

Her research explores criminal representation, governmental responses to crime, and criminal lived experiences, with projects like 'Victims’ Access to Justice' and 'Our Criminal Ancestors' focusing on public engagement with historical crime narratives. Recent publications analyze victimology, policing evolution, and juvenile justice from the 17th to 20th centuries.

Honors include Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. She leads postgraduate supervision in crime history topics and contributes to editorial boards including RHS New Historical Perspectives.