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Dr Sally-Ann Ashton
BA, BA (Hons), MA, PhD, MPhil, MSc, PhD, CPsychol
Lecturer in the Psychosocial Analysis of Offending Behaviour
Email: Ashtons@edgehill.ac.uk
Research interests:
Youth offending; urban gangs; child criminal exploitation; violent offending; county lines; hybrid gangs; female gangs; desistance; personality disorders; mental health and the CJS; veterans and offending; forensic psychology; investigative psychology; criminal narrative roles; offender interventions; policing; prisons; quantitative research design; mixed methods research design; applied research.
Sally-Ann began working in prisons in 2003 as part of a museum outreach programme as part of her role as Senior Assistant Keeper at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She was subsequently awarded an AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship to work with prisoners and prison education departments (2007-09). During this period she obtained an MPhil in Criminological Research at the University of Cambridge researching the impact of cultural heritage programmes on the self-concept of Black male prisoners. In 2014 she was awarded an ESRC Impact Acceleration Grant from the University of Cambridge to develop Black cultural awareness training for prisoners and staff.
In 2015 Sally-Ann obtained an MSc in Investigative Psychology from the University of Huddersfield. From 2015-18 Sally-Ann was a Graduate Teaching Assistant and doctoral researcher, obtaining her PhD in 2019: 'The relationship of psychological and social risk factors to offending and desistance in a sample of male gang and group offenders'.
In 2017 Sally-Ann received a National Gang Crime Research Center Frederic Milton Thrasher Award for Superior Accomplishments in Gang Research; and in 2019 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship to research gang interventions in the USA.
Sally-Ann is a Chartered Psychologist and continues to research risk factors associated with adolescent offending and gangs. She is currently involved in a research project for Merseyside Police Violence Reduction Unit and is undertaking an evaluation of the impact of violence reduction interventions in Greater Manchester with Salford Foundation and Greater Manchester Combined Authorities. She is principal investigator for a study on the narrative roles of co-offending.
Psychology, PhD, University of Huddersfield
5 Oct 2015 → 14 Sep 2018
Award Date: 24 Apr 2019
Investigative Psychology, MSc, University of Huddersfield
29 Sep 2014 → 31 Jul 2015
Award Date: 15 Sep 2015
Criminological Research, MPhil, University of Cambridge
1 Oct 2007 → 1 Sep 2008
Award Date: 14 Oct 2008
Egyptology, PhD, King's College London
Oct 1995 → May 1999
Award Date: 31 Aug 1999
Classics, MA, King's College London
Oct 1994 → Aug 1995
Award Date: 1 Nov 1995
Classical Archaeology , BA, King's College London
Oct 1991 → Jun 1994
Award Date: 1 Aug 1994
Ancient Greek, BA, University of Manchester
Award Date: 8 Jul 1991
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
SALLY-ANN ASHTON (Speaker) & ANNA BUSSU (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
ANNA BUSSU (Speaker) & SALLY-ANN ASHTON (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
ASHTON, SALLY-ANN (Recipient), 7 Aug 2017
Prize: Other distinction