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 she is currently developing sections of her PhD into journal articles. Her upcoming work will look at how different actors have experienced being represented in various forms of crime news and media, and how this has shifted since the closing decades of the twentieth century. She is also particularly interested in emotions, ethics and the research experience, and chaired the Emotionally Demanding Research Network at the University of Sheffield.

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. She is an Associate of the People's Justice Network.

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 'Crime and the Family', 'Research Design and Data Collection', 'Youth Justice', as well as the FHS Criminology and Criminal justice option and DPhil programme.