Personal statement

Faye is the Programme Leader for Criminology and a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Bath Spa University.

Her PhD research was based on men convicted and imprisoned for rape. The qualitative research was undertaken in prisons in England and Wales to examine how men with sexual convictions manage the stigmatisation associated with their offence and to investigate the purpose of denial, particularly in wings/prisons which only house men convicted of sexual offences.

The research also explores how men convicted of rape understand sexual consent. This research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Faye’s other research projects focus on the provision of higher education in prisons.

Faye teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate criminology modules.

She is module leader for:

  • Victims and Victimisation
  • Unlocking Criminology (a module where students learn alongside prisoners in a prison in England and Wales)

Faye is also the co-course leader for a new short course in criminology for prison learners, Collaborative Criminology.

Faye is the research lead for Criminal Justice Research in the School of Sciences.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD Criminology, Cardiff University
  • MSc Criminology, University of Southampton
  • BSc Criminology and Psychology (First Class Honours), University of Southampton
  • PGCHE, Bath Spa University
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Teaching subjects

  • Sexual violence
  • Domestic violence
  • Sexual consent
  • Sexual offenders
  • Qualitative research
  • Criminological theory
  • Prisons
  • Victimisation

Research supervision

  • Sexual violence
  • Education in prisons