Dr Michelle Waldron

Bio

Michelle Waldron is a part-time lecturer at San Jose State University in Global Criminology. She completed her PhD at the University of Stirling, her thesis Educated Inside: A Scottish approach to prisoner education contributes to the body of research related to educational experiences for people in custody in Scotland and provides an understanding of the individual impacts of learning on identity.

Michelle’s research interests include perceptions of crime, student prisoners, and access to HE, prison, the social and mental impacts of incarceration, and post-Incarceration resettlement, career opportunities, support systems.