Dr Helen Efleet

Profile

Biography

Dr Helen Elfleet is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology. She has been a member of staff at Edge Hill University since 2014, when she joined the university as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD Candidate. Prior to this she completed a BA Honours in Criminology and Criminal Justice in 2011, and a Master’s by Research in 2014 at The University of Central Lancashire. In 2019 she completed a PhD in criminology at EHU. She also completed a PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2016.

Her research and teaching interests include imprisonment and post-release experience, prison education, the penal voluntary sector, gender-specific governance, neoliberalism, austerity, mental health, zemiology, and governmentality. Her recent research has focused on the role and function of a post-Corston Report (2007) women’s centre for formerly imprisoned women with mental health problems, and the role of critical andragogical approaches to teaching and learning in prisons. She is currently researching the unnatural and near-unnatural death of women after prison in England and Wales.

Helen is a member of The Centre for Social Responsibility (CSR) and The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control.

Research Interests

Gender responsive governance; neoliberalism; governmentality; mental health problems; post release experience; and imprisonment. 

Teaching

Helen currently teaches on the following modules at undergraduate level:

CRI2024 Crime, Media, and Criminology (Module Leader)

CRI2234 Community Punishments (Module Leader)

CRI2223 Generating Reputations (Module Leader)

CRI3110 The Politics of Imprisonment

SPY3140 Dissertation.

Helen supervises Master’s and PhD students in her areas of expertise.