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Dr Erin Power

School of Justice Studies

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Erin is a researcher and practitioner with interests and experience in prisons, prison theatre, care and care aesthetics, neoliberalism, and gender and incarceration.

Erin joined LJMU from the University of Surrey where she was a postdoctoral researcher on the ESRC funded project Doing Porridge: Understanding women’s experiences of food in prison.

In 2022 she completed her PhD entitled Performing Neoliberalism: Stories of Care, Conformity and Resistance within Contemporary Prison theatre. Her monograph, which combines findings from this study with creative writing based upon her own experiences delivering theatre in prison, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2025.

Prior to undertaking her PhD, Erin worked as an arts and groupwork practitioner in justice settings, running family- based groupwork projects, theatre programmes and poetry and visual art workshops in prison and probation settings. She uses her background as an arts practitioner in both her research methods and dissemination.

Degrees

2022, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom, PhD

Academic appointments

Lecturer, Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University, 2023 - present
Research Fellow, Sociology, University of Surrey, 2021 - 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Applied Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University, 2018 - 2021

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