Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Professor (Emerita) Loraine Gelsthorpe (PhD, FHEA, FRSA, FAcSS) Loraine was deputy Director of the Institute between 2012-2017,  and then Director October 2017-2022.   She was Director of the ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership across the social sciences in the University between 2013-2022.   Loraine became emerita at the end of 2022 but continues to do research (especially on women and criminal justice and community penalties), teach and supervise.    She became Chair of the Probation Institute in April 2023 – and is currently involved in the UKRI REF Pilot for People, Culture and Community, as well as continuing to sit on various government advisory committees.   She is also a psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist (UKCP registered and accredited) and has run a small private practice since 2003.   In 2021 Loraine was awarded the European Society of Criminology Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to European Criminology, and in 2023 the British Society of Criminology Outstanding Achievement Award.

Further information

Professor Nicola Padfield QC (Hon), MA, Dip Crim, DES is Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty and has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since 1991.  She was the Master of the College from 2013-2019.

Her teaching and research has covered a broad canvas in criminal law, sentencing and criminal justice more generally. She sat as a Recorder (part-time judge) in the Crown Court from 2002-2014, is a Bencher of the Middle Temple and served as the University Advocate for several years. She was appointed as Honorary Queen's Counsel in 2018.

Nicola Padfield’s books include ‘The Criminal Justice Process: Text and Materials’ (5th edition, 2016); ‘Criminal Law’ (10th edition, 2016), and ‘Beyond the Tariff: Human rights and the release of life sentence prisoners’ (2002).

Naima Sakande is a criminal defence investigator at APPEAL, where she manages their Women’s Justice Initiative. She specialises in case investigation for criminal appeals on behalf of women with histories of domestic abuse and mental illness. She also produces their Surviving Injustice podcast, and her own podcast, Third Culture, which explores the heritage and stories of people with mixed identities.

Naima previously managed programmes for young women affected by gangs in London at the youth charity, Leap Confronting Conflict, as well as working on pre-trial criminal cases as an Investigator for The Bronx Defenders, an internationally renowned public defender office in New York City. She is a trustee of the charity Women in Prison who campaign for radical alternatives to prison.

She is also a 2019 Griffins Society Fellow, conducting research on the barriers to appeal for women with the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University. Naima has a B.A. in International Development from Yale University. 
(see appeal.org.uk)