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‘Carry on laughing and I’ll punish you as well!’: Humour, power, and relationship negotiation in a prison workshop (2025)
Journal Article

Drawing on a 10-month ethnographic study of a private prison in the UK, this paper examines how humour is used between prisoners and prison staff to negotiate working relationships in prison. We show how both the presence and absence of humour can sh... Read More about ‘Carry on laughing and I’ll punish you as well!’: Humour, power, and relationship negotiation in a prison workshop.

"Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers (2025)
Book Chapter

The notion of vulnerability characterises the separated nature of cultural contexts, uniting women through the pernicious need for coping mechanisms. Confronting the ‘double jeopardy’ of race and gender (Beal, 2008), female minorities are at highest... Read More about "Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers.

Risky Business? The Value of Employing Offenders and Ex-Offenders: An Interview With James Timpson, Chief Executive of Timpson (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2019. This interview with James Timpson, Chief Executive of Timpson retailers, explores his innovative approach to recruitment and empowerment in the workplace. James Timpson is passionate about the employment of ex-offenders, working... Read More about Risky Business? The Value of Employing Offenders and Ex-Offenders: An Interview With James Timpson, Chief Executive of Timpson.

‘I am a person who works’: The stigmatised prisoner identity and the work self as redeemer (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Based on the findings of a ten-month ethnography of prisoners incarcerated in a British prison, this paper addresses how prisoners negotiate between two divergent identities, the criminal self and the work self to manage stigma. Two categories of pri... Read More about ‘I am a person who works’: The stigmatised prisoner identity and the work self as redeemer.

Teabags, tools and getting my hands dirty: The female outsider in the total (male) institution (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses the complex role that gender plays for the female researcher in a male prison. I reflect on how gender influenced my research outcomes and my experience of the field by drawing on ethnographic research in a total (male) instituti... Read More about Teabags, tools and getting my hands dirty: The female outsider in the total (male) institution.