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Dr Kirsty Welsh is a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, teaching Criminal Law with Mooting, Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Sexuality and the Law modules. She supervises undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD research projects and previously served as Deputy Course Leader for Law with Criminology.
She holds a PhD in Criminology from the University of Sheffield (2005), where her doctoral research examined policy and practice responses to domestic violence and abuse.
Dr Welsh's research centers on domestic violence and abuse, coercive control, intimate image abuse, and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). She has extensively analyzed partnership working in domestic abuse interventions, multi-agency risk assessment conferences, and legal responses to image-based abuse and cases where women kill abusers. Her scholarship consistently addresses gaps in legal frameworks and advocates for victim-centered approaches.
Her recent publications (2023-2025) reveal a strong focus on legislative responses to image-based domestic abuse, particularly the Online Safety Act 2023, and evolving partnership models for domestic violence prevention. This work demonstrates her commitment to translating research into practical policy improvements.
Dr Welsh has received significant recognition for her teaching excellence:
- NTSU Student-Led Teaching Award (2022)
She actively supervises PhD candidates in domestic abuse and VAWG, and leads multiple collaborative research initiatives:
- Co-production project with JUNO Women’s Aid on survivor voice forums across Nottinghamshire
- International collaboration with Canadian universities (St Francis Xavier, MacEwan, Toronto) on intimate image abuse
- NTU-led study on judicial use of Domestic Abuse Sentencing Guidelines with Dr James Thornton
Dr Welsh is deeply embedded in research communities as convenor of the Socio-Legal Studies Association’s Crime and Criminal Justice Stream, organizer of the NLS Research Seminar Series, and member of NTU’s Centre for Rights and Justice and Critical Criminology and Social Research Group.
