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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. 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

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