Dr Erin Power
School of Justice Studies
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: E.E.Power@ljmu.ac.uk
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. She is currently working on a monograph based on this study.
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
Journal article
Power E, Adams M, Harman V, Garland J, McCarthy D. 2024. 'Connection Rather Than Output': Reflections on the Role of Art Workshops in Qualitative Research With Women in Prison International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Books (authored)
Adams M, Garland J, McCarthy D, Power E, Brown T. 2024. Beyond Porridge Dishes from Inside Women’s Prisons Waterside Press 9781914603495
Internet publication
Adams M, Power E, Garland J. 2023. Prison Food: what we learned from organising food-themed art workshops for women prisoners Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Thesis/Dissertation
Power E. 2022. Performing Neoliberalism: Stories of care, conformity and resistance within contemporary prison theatre Peacock M, Karkou V, Ashton S-A.
Chapters
Power E. 2021. 'Without it you’re lost’: examining the role and challenges of family engagement services in prisons Baldwin L, Masson I, Booth N. Critical Reflections on Women, Family, Crime and Justice Policy Press 9781447358695
Other
Power E. Doing Porridge Podcast Author Url
Power E. The Secret Life of Prisons Podcast: Food in Women's Prisons Author Url
Exhibition
Adams M, Power E, Garland J, Harman V, McCarthy D. On My Plate Author Url