Lecturer in Criminology
Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology Colin Bell Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
Ashley Rogers is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She has a BSC(Hons) in Criminology and Sociology , MSc in Human Rights and International Politics (University of Glasgow, 2009) and a second MSc in Applied Social Research Methods (University of Stirling, funded by ESRC, 2013). She graduated with a PhD from the University of Stirling in 2018 (ESRC-funded).
Prior to joining the University of Stirling, Ashley worked as a Lecturer in Criminology at Abertay University for over 4 years. Prior, she worked as a Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, and Guest Lecturer at the University of Stirling from 2009-2017. In 2016 she spent a summer as a Visiting Researcher at the Freie University in Berlin.
RESEARCH
Ashley completed her ESRC-funded socio-legal PhD in December 2017, which explored the experiences of women victims of violence in Bolivia and the challenges they face when accessing justice. She spent one year conducting ethnographic fieldwork in La Paz with women's groups, non-governmental organisations and state bodies. In particular, her research focused on the implementation of Law 348 to Guarantee Women a Life Free from Violence and women's legal consciousness and subjectivity. This has also led to work exploring femicide and law.
Ashley's current research follows on from work in previously held roles outside of academia, focused on forced migration. She has worked on issues facing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and is now focused largely on adults. She is PI on a project that evaluates the Scottish Refugee Council's Family Rights Service for asylum seeking families in Scotland. In addition, she is also PI on another evaluation for the Victim Navigator Programme with Justice and Care. This Programme seeks to ensure support for victim-survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery. Ashley therefore has expertise in human trafficking and modern slavery in Scotland and works with a range of relevant organisations and stakeholders, as well as those with lived experience.
Ashley also has a keen research interest and experience in environmental harms. In 2018 she visited Malawi to investigate access to water and community resilience as part of a Scottish Government funded project with colleagues in the Division of Natural and Built Environment at Abertay University. In 2020 she was funded by the AHRC alongside colleagues in Zimbabwe to explore the effects of Cyclone Idai and document losses to intangible cultural heritage. Following the end of this project, she also secured funding to visit Zimbabwe at the end of 2022 to examine the value of Indigenous knowledges in early warning systems for extreme weather events.
The areas of violence and harm, forced migration, and the environment are all linked, and Ashley is developing interdisciplinary and international work along these lines.
TEACHING
Ashley teaches in a number of different areas in the Faculty of Social Sciences but all of her teaching emphasises the need to critically consider dominant conceptualisations and discourses of crime, drawing attention to crimes of the powerful including, but not limited to: state-corporate crime; human trafficking; criminalisation of immigration and border policing; hate crime and dismantling the privilege embedded within discourses of 'free speech'; violence against women and girls, and the crime of femicide; environmental crime and green criminology; penal practices and abolitionism. As a largely qualitative researcher, she also teaches primarily on ethnographic and creative methodologies.
From 2021 to 2024, Ashley was an Associate Director for the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences and has a strong commitment to PhD students in the social sciences.
Ashley is happy to consider supervision for PhD projects on: -Human trafficking and modern slavery -Femicide -Supporting asylum seekers and refugees -Violence against women -Legal consciousness -Environmental Justice -Gender and the environment Please do get in touch with her if this is something you are considering.
Human trafficking and modern slavery, ethnography, socio-legal studies, asylum seekers, refugees, violence, social harm, social justice, climate change, environment, extreme weather events, southern and decolonial theories, social theory. Scotland. Eastern and Southern Africa. Latin America.
Investigating cultural influences on malnutrition (over and under): the case of Zimbabwe
PI: Dr Ashley Rogers
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Inventorying Intangible Cultural Heritage Assets Affected by Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani, Chipinge and Buhera districts in Zimabawe
PI: Dr Ashley Rogers
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Book Chapter
Rogers A (2023) Emotional honesty and reflections on problematic positionalities when conducting research in another country. In: Smith RJ & Delamont S (eds.) Leaving the field Methodological insights from ethnographic exits. Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157652/
Article
Punch S & Rogers A (2022) Building, not Burning Bridges in Research: Insider/Outsider Dilemmas and Engaging with the Bridge Community. Journal of Leisure Research, 53 (2), pp. 272-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.1887782
Article
Namusanya D, Rogers A & Gilmour D (2022) Taking from the rural to serve the urban: The Likhubula water Taking from the rural to serve the urban: The Likhubula water project and the slow violence of water abstraction in Malawi project and the slow violence of water abstraction in Malawi. Criminological Encounters, 5 (1), pp. 2022-2506. https://doi.org/10.26395/CE22050108
Article
Between equality and discrimination: the paradox of the women’s game in the mind-sport bridge
Rogers A, Snellgrove M & Punch S (2022) Between equality and discrimination: the paradox of the women’s game in the mind-sport bridge. World Leisure Journal, 64 (4), pp. 342-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2022.2051068
Article
Between equality and discrimination: the paradox of the women's game in the mind-sport bridge
Rogers A, Snellgrove M & Punch S (2022) Between equality and discrimination: the paradox of the women's game in the mind-sport bridge. World Leisure Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2022.2051068
Article
Rigby P, Fotopoulou M, Rogers A, Manta A & Dikaiou M (2021) Problematising separated children: a policy analysis of the UK 'Safeguarding Strategy: Unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47 (3), pp. 501-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2019.1694407
Book Chapter
Rogers A (2021) Naming ‘Femicide’. In: Gordon F & Newman D (eds.) Leading Works in Law and Social Justice. Analysing Leading Works in Law. London: Routledge, pp. 85-98. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429287572-7
Article
Rogers A (2020) "But the Law Won't Help Us": Challenges of Mobilizing Law 348 to Address Violence Against Women in Bolivia. Violence Against Women, 26 (12-13), pp. 1471-1492. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801219870613
Commentary
Anderson S, Horgan S, Jamieson F, Jardine C & Rogers A (2020) ECR collective response: The future of criminology and the unsustainability of the status quo for ECRs. Commentary on: Sparks R. Crime and justice research: The current landscape and future possibilities. Criminology & Criminal Justice. 2020;20(4):471-482. doi:10.1177/1748895820949297. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 20 (4), pp. 487-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820949299
Project Report
Integrated Water Resource Management in Southern Malawi: enhancement report for project expansion
Blackwood D, Akunna J, Gilmour D, Rogers A, O'Keeffe J & Helliwell R (2019) Integrated Water Resource Management in Southern Malawi: enhancement report for project expansion. Scottish Government. Scotland’s Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW). https://www.crew.ac.uk/sites/www.crew.ac.uk/files/sites/default/files/publication/Malawi_HNI%20project.pdf
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Rogers A & Talbot A (2019) Being uncomfortable is important: reflections on power and privilege when conducting research in a foreign country and a second language. British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, 24.04.2019-26.04.2019. https://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/24958/ac2019_all_abstracts_by_session.pdf
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Legal consciousness, civil society, and dialogical spaces
Rogers A & Ward T (2019) Legal consciousness, civil society, and dialogical spaces. Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2019, University of Leeds, 03.04.2019-05.04.2019.
Book Review
Rogers A (2019) Book review: Conor O’Reilly (ed.), Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing across the Lusophone Community. Review of: Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing across the Lusophone Community Conor O’Reilly (ed.), Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing across the Lusophone Community, Routledge: New York, 2018; 268 pp.: 9781409465300. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 19 (1), pp. 135-136. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818794097
Research Report
Responding to Unaccompanied Minors in Scotland: Policy and Local Authority Perspectives
Rigby P, Fotopoulou M, Rogers A & Manta A (2018) Responding to Unaccompanied Minors in Scotland: Policy and Local Authority Perspectives. University of Stirling. Stirling: University of Stirling.
Presentation / Talk
A Place of Safety for Everyone?
Rigby P, Fotopoulou M, Rogers A & Manta A (2018) A Place of Safety for Everyone?. Separated and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in Scotland Programme. Workshop 2, Glasgow, 26.04.2018-26.04.2018.
Book Chapter
Women's rights and legal consciousness in Bolivia: a socio-legal ethnography
Rogers A (2017) Women's rights and legal consciousness in Bolivia: a socio-legal ethnography. In: Fletcher S & White H (eds.) Emerging Voices: Critical Social Research by European Group Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers. London: EG Press. https://egpress.org/content/emerging-voices-critical-social-research-european-group-postgraduate-and-early-career
Research Report
Malloch M, Munro W & Rogers A (2017) Justice, Civic Engagement and the Public Sphere: Mapping Democratic Transformations in Scottish Society. The British Academy; The Leverhulme Trust. Glasgow: University of Stirling. http://www.sccjr.ac.uk/publications/justice-civic-engagement-and-the-public-sphere-mapping-democratic-transformations-in-scottish-society/