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Dr Rosalchen Whitecross is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Sciences, Bath Spa University. Her interdisciplinary research combines cultural criminology, narrative theory, and creative writing pedagogy to examine women's prison writing as counter-narratives to institutional punishment discourses.
Research Interests: Whitecross explores how incarcerated women's narratives challenge societal constructions of punishment through lived experience storytelling. Her work emphasizes creative writing workshops as research methods and pedagogical tools, focusing on relational ethics, epistemic justice, and participatory arts-based approaches in prison settings. She investigates the sociocultural implications of prison writing as heterotopic spaces of expression.
Key Outputs: Recent publications include 2025 analyses of epistemic justice in prison creative writing and heterotopic spaces in narrative inclusion. She edited the 2021 anthology How Bleak is the Crow's Nest, which compiles women's prison writing as cultural resources.
Recognition:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Recipient of CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England) doctoral funding
Networks: Active member of the international
- Women, Family, Crime and Justice (WFCJ) research network
- Narrative Criminology Research Network (University of Oslo)
- British Sociological Association (BSA)
Teaching: Specializes in punishment and penology, cultural criminology, creative writing pedagogy, and qualitative research methods. Supervises research on imprisonment, gender and punishment, and participatory arts-based research.
