Ms Clare Dwyer

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Lecturer 

Contact Details
Email address c.dwyer@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line       (+44) 028 9097 1021      
Room 29.103, 29 University Square

Degrees
BA (Hons) Law and Government, University of Ulster
MSSc Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen’s University Belfast
PGCHET, Queen's University Belfast

Biography
Before joining the School of Law at Queen’s, Clare was Lecturer in Law at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster where she taught on the areas of International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement and Criminal Law. In 2004, Clare had worked within the School of Law at Queen’s and was involved in a major multidisciplinary research project evaluating Children’s Rights in Northern Ireland. From 2002 – 2004, she worked as Projects Manager for Donnelly-Hall Ltd, a management and research consultancy which was engaged by the Department for International Development, World Bank and the United Nations, to provide technical assistance in the areas of legislation and criminal justice to countries from the former Soviet Union and Former Yugoslavia. Clare has been involved in projects reviewing and updating legislation in Kosovo and the Safety, Security and Access to Justice Programme (SSAJP) in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia & Montenegro.

Her main research interests lie in the areas of penal policy, former prisoners and conflict transformation. Her article ‘Risk, Politics and the 'Scientification' of Political Judgement: Prisoner Release and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland’ published in the British Journal of Criminology was jointly awarded the Brian Williams Prize 2008. This prize is awarded for the best sole authored article by a “new” scholar that has made a valuable contribution to the further development of criminology.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

Research

Criminal Justice and Penal Policy, Former Prisoners, Conflict Transformation & Transitional Justice.

Selected publications

‘Researching Children’s Rights in the Context of Northern Ireland’ in J. Davis, M. Gallagher and K Tisdall (eds.) Researching with Children and Young People: Research Design, Methods and Analysis, (with C. Davey and S. McAlister) Sage Publications, 2008

"Dealing with the Leftovers: Post Conflict Imprisonment in Northern Ireland" (2008) 175 Prison Service Journal 3-10.

Risk, Politics and the 'Scientification' of Political Judgement: Prisoner Release and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland (2007) 47 British Journal of Criminology 779-797

‘The ‘Complexity of Imprisonment: The Northern Ireland Experience' (2004) 35 The Cambrian Law Review 97

"An Analysis of Research Conducted with School Children into Children's Rights in Northern Ireland ." Belfast : Northern Ireland Children's Commissioner Office, 2005. (co-author).

"Children's Rights in Northern Ireland : Young Persons Report." Belfast : Northern Ireland Children's Commissioner Office, 2005. (co-author).                                    

"Children's Rights in Northern Ireland ." Belfast : Northern Ireland Children's Commissioner Office, 2004. (co-author).

Administration

Assistant Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice 2007 - present