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Rodney WalkerView profile

Visiting Assistant Professor

• Trauma-Informed Education
• Mentoring At-Risk Youth
• Social Justice in Criminal Justice System
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Rodney Walker serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies in the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership at Morehouse College and instructs within Morehouse's Higher Education in Prisons Program at Atlanta's Metro Reentry Facility. He earned his bachelor's degree from Morehouse College and graduate degrees from Harvard University and Yale University, overcoming significant adversity including foster care, autism diagnosis, and homelessness during his youth. Walker's research and professional work centers on trauma-informed educational approaches, mentorship strategies for at-risk youth, and social justice initiatives targeting criminal justice reform. His expertise culminated in the 2020 publication Wounds You Can Not See: An Educator's Guide to Cultivating Resilience and Leadership in At-Risk Youth , establishing him as a thought leader in youth resilience development. Walker founded Forever Life Productions to create custom event videos and partnered with former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to develop Chicago's comprehensive employment pipeline for disconnected youth. He actively volunteers at Atlanta's Federal Correctional Institution to advance educational opportunities within the prison system.

• Mothering and Imprisonment
• Disrupted Mothering
• Women and the Criminal Justice System
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Dr. Kelly Lockwood is a Lecturer and Head of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Salford's School of Health & Society. She joined the university in 2015 as a Research Assistant, became a criminology lecturer in 2016, and assumed her leadership role in 2023. With prior experience as a manager for a women's centre working with criminal justice agencies, Dr. Lockwood brings practical insight to her academic work focusing on women and the criminal justice system. Her research centers on mothering and imprisonment, examining how women maintain maternal identities during incarceration. Key interests include: Mothering and Imprisonment Disrupted Mothering Women and the Criminal Justice System Families Impacted by Imprisonment Feminist Narrative Methodologies Dr. Lockwood teaches Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice; Prisons and Punishment; and Victims and Victimisation. Her recent scholarship addresses critical issues including menopause in prison, domestic violence interventions for incarcerated women, and pandemic impacts on mother-child relationships during incarceration. She has published extensively across multiple formats including books, journal articles, and reports, with notable works such as 'Mothering from the inside: research on motherhood and imprisonment' (2020). Her research demonstrates consistent focus on gendered dimensions of criminal justice involvement and has been supported by the Internal Funding Award QR Innovation Strategy Fund. As a member of the Centre for Research on Inclusive Society, Dr. Lockwood's work contributes to understanding marginalized populations within the criminal justice system and informs policy development regarding family-centered approaches for women offenders.