Emily Rose Hay

Emily Rose is Departmental Lecturer in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology.  She is a social historian, holding a PhD in Economic and Social History and MA (Hons) History from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Oxford.

She is a contemporary historian of crime and criminal justice, focusing on violence in news and media. Her doctoral research examined representations of child homicide in the UK from the 1960s to the 1980s, and her first book Child Homicide and the British Press will be published by Routledge. Her current research focuses on allegiance, responsibility and emotion within historical criminology, exploring researchers' relationships with their deceased research subjects. From January 2027, she will expand this research through the John Fell Fund project Researcher responsibilities to the dead: A cross-disciplinary dialogue. She is a member of the BSC Historical Criminology Network steering committee.

Before joining the Centre for Criminology, Emily Rose held various research and teaching roles at the University of Sheffield, the Open University and Queen Mary University of London. She has most recently worked as a researcher carrying out oral history interviews with probation paraprofessionals for the Leverhulme Trust project 'Probation's Evolving Frontline' with Professor Gwen Robinson and Dr Jane Dominey.  Before her PhD, she worked as a researcher for the Penal History Project, centred around Irish political prisoners during The Troubles. 

Emily Rose convenes the 'News, Media, Crime and Policy' and 'Academic Skills for Criminologists' modules on the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and contributes to the 'Criminological Theories' core course, 'Crime and the Family', 'Research Design and Data Collection', 'Youth Justice', as well as the FHS Criminology and Criminal justice option and DPhil programme.