Catherine Clancy

PhD Candidate

Catherine Clancy is a PhD candidate at Griffith University researching the communication that occurs between custodial staff and women in prison. Her research specifically examines staffs’ perspectives of their communication with the women in prisons via interviews with staff, and the women’s perspectives, through analysis of a secondary data set of focus groups with women in Queensland prisons. Her research also involves an evaluation of a communication skills training developed specifically for correctional staff who work in prisons for women, by analysing skill changes at pre/post and follow-up time points.

Catherine has published research on the impact of interview quality on the risk assessment of young people who sexually offend and has experience evaluating trauma informed programs for women in prison.

Alongside her research, Catherine works as both a training assistant (TA) for the Centre for Investigative Interviewing, and a Teaching Fellow (TF) for the school of CCJ. In her role as a TA, she participates in mock interviews providing instruction and feedback on investigative interviewing performance to a range of professionals, including those in policing, corrections, law, social work, and education. In her role as a TF she convenes and tutors undergraduate criminology courses.

Beyond her PhD, Catherine is passionate about yoga practice and facilitates trauma-informed yoga classes at a women’s prison in Queensland.