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Biography
Dr Helen Elfleet is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology. Her research and teaching interests include imprisonment and post-release experience, prison education, the penal voluntary sector, gender-specific governance, neoliberalism, austerity, mental health problems, and governmentality. She has authored book chapters and articles for academic journals and has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences. Her recent research focused on the role and function of a post-Corston Report (2007) women’s centre for formerly imprisoned women with mental health problems, and the role of critical andragogical approaches to teaching and learning in prisons.
She is a member of The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control.
Research interests
Gender responsive governance; neoliberalism; governmentality; mental health problems; post release experience; and imprisonment.
Education/Academic qualification
Criminology, PhD, Gender Responsivity in a Women's Centre: Post Release Experiences after the Corston Report, Edge Hill University
Award Date: 3 Jun 2019
Criminology, MRes, Gender Responsive Penality: A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Official Penal Discourse on Women’s Imprisonment Post Corston (2007), University of Central Lancashire
Award Date: 20 Jan 2014
PGCert, Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, Edge Hill University
Criminology and Criminal Justice, BA, University of Central Lancashire
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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Critical Andragogy and ‘Momentary Emancipation’ in a Prison-University Educational Partnership
BARTON, A., CAWLEY, M. & ELFLEET, H., 30 May 2025, In: Journal of Adult and Continuing Education. 32, 1, p. 205-225 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
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Neoliberal Feminised Governmentality: The Role and Function of A Post Corston Report (2007) Women’s Centre In The North-West Of England
ELFLEET, H., 25 Feb 2021, In: British Journal of Community Justice. 16, 2, p. 1-22Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
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Gender Responsive Governance: From Elizabeth Fry to Baroness Jean Corston
ELFLEET, H., 1 Nov 2019, In: Prison Service Journal. Nov 2019, 246, p. 41-46Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
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Women’s Centres: Gender Responsive Services for Formerly Imprisoned Women Post Corston Report (2007)
Elfleet, H., 16 Apr 2018, In: ECAN Bulletin. 2018, 35, p. 17-22Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
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Empowered to be resilient: Neo-liberal Penal Rhetoric and The Corston Report (2007)
Elfleet, H., 2 Mar 2017, In: Prison Service Journal. 230Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
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Gender Responsivity in a Women’s Centre: Post-Release Experiences after the Corston Report (2007)
ELFLEET, H. (Author), BARTON, A. (Director of Studies), PETERS, E. (Supervisor) & BROWN, A. (Supervisor), 3 Jun 2019Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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