Amy Duvenage

Dr Amy Duvenage serves as a Lecturer in Criminology within the Department of Social Sciences and Nursing at Solent University. Holding a PhD from Kingston University focused on challenges to ubuntu and social cohesion in South Africa, she brings extensive teaching experience across further and higher education in criminology, sociology, and English literature to her current role.

Her academic background includes:

• PhD, Kingston University: Research examined challenges to ubuntu and social cohesion in South Africa.

Dr Duvenage's research critically engages with decolonial and postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality, narrative analysis of southern African literature, and ubuntu as a uniquely southern African philosophical framework for justice. Her interdisciplinary work bridges criminology, gender studies, literary analysis, and sociology to deconstruct colonial narratives and explore social justice through African epistemologies, with particular attention to how literature informs criminological theory and pedagogy.

Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2020-2025) reveals dominant trends in decolonial criminology, ubuntu philosophy, and postcolonial literary analysis. Key thematic clusters include xenophobia in migration contexts, the criminological value of fiction for theory construction, decolonial feminisms, and ubuntu's application in social cohesion. Her work consistently employs postcolonial and feminist lenses to critique power structures while centering Global South perspectives and African philosophical traditions.

Dr Duvenage actively supervises MRes and PhD students while teaching core undergraduate modules including gender, sexuality and crime; criminological theory; research methods; study skills; and victimology across Levels 4-6. She contributes to multiple Solent University programs: BA (Hons) Criminology, BSc (Hons) Criminal Investigation with Psychology, BSc (Hons) Psychology with Criminology, BA (Hons) Sociology, and BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology. Although specific research grants aren't detailed, her prolific publication record indicates sustained research activity.

No dedicated research laboratories or specialized teams are mentioned in available documentation.