Anita Dockley

• Position: Research Director

Anita Dockley is responsible for developing the charity’s research capacity, forging links with academics and universities, funders and partner organisations. Her own research interests include suicide and self-harm in prisons, women in prison and order and control in the prison environment. She has been appointed a user member of the Research Excellence Framework 2021 sub panel for social work and social policy, and held the equivalent role in 2014 REF exercise on the law sub panel. She is the managing editor on the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. She is a honorary visiting fellow in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. She is also a member of the Perrie Lectures Committee.