Professor Dr. Fiona Jamieson

Biography

Fiona Jamieson is a lecturer at the Edinburgh Law School, specializing in Criminology. Her main research interests encompass sentencing, penal decision-making, punishment, judicial culture, and the occupational culture of criminal justice organizations, employing qualitative research methods. Fiona's doctoral research, supported by ESRC scholarship funding, utilized biographical narrative research methods to explore judicial work and culture in depth. Before joining the Edinburgh Law School, she developed extensive knowledge of criminal justice law, policy, and practice during her legal career as a prosecutor in Scotland. Fiona is an active member of the Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making Working Group at the European Society of Criminology. In 2017, she was appointed to the MESAS Governance Board, focused on the Monitoring and Evaluation of Scotland's Alcohol Strategy for the Scottish Government and NHS. Additionally, she serves on the Evaluation Advisory Group (EAG) for the Impact of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) on Crime and Antisocial Behavior, contributing to discussions and evaluations concerning crucial public health and safety issues.

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