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Dr Fabienne Emmerich is a Senior Lecturer at the Keele University School of Law, serving as Postgraduate Research Degrees Director and ESRC NWSSDTP Institutional Lead. She holds an LLB from Keele (2000), LLM and MA from Nottingham (Socio-Legal Research Methods), and a PhD (2013). Her research focuses on prison reform, gendered resistance in carceral systems, and abolitionist methodologies. She was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2019/2020) for her project on women’s prison resistance and spent time as a Visiting Researcher at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (2019).
Her work interrogates dehumanization in prisons, queer incarceration patterns, and alternatives to carceral systems. Publications span judicial case analyses, comparative penal studies, and methodological innovations in criminology. Teaching experience includes roles at the Universities of Nottingham and Bristol.
- Education: LLB (Keele), LLM/MA (Nottingham), PhD (2013)
- Awards: Leverhulme Fellowship for prison reform project
- Key Research Themes: Carcerality, gender studies, abolition feminism, judicial processes
Her visiting researcher position at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (2019) supported fieldwork on prison reform with Professors Helga Cremer-Schäfer and Sabine Andresen. She advocates for care-based governance over carceral expansion, often critiquing punitive policies through a socio-legal lens.
