PhD
Contact details for Dr Kate Smith
Biography
Dr Catrin (Kate) Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice and is the Undergraduate and Open Universities Australia (OUA) Program Convenor. She joined the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in 2009, having previously been Reader in Criminology at the University of Chester. Prior to that, she was a lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice and a member of the Centre for Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Wales, Bangor (now Bangor University). She has been grant holder and principal investigator on a number of research projects, with funding from the Scottish Office, the High Security Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board and the British Academy. She has completed research on health issues for incarcerated women (UK and USA), aspects of care and control at a High Security (Special) Psychiatric Hospital and on the cultural aspects of female injecting drug use (Texas and North Wales).