Dr. Julie Laursen

Biography

Julie Laursen holds a Master's degree in Educational Anthropology. Her PhD research at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, conducted between 2013 and 2016, examined prison-based cognitive behavioural programmes through participant observation and interviews. She focused on understanding the definitions of problems surrounding criminality and the suggested solutions within concrete practice. After completing her PhD, Julie undertook a four-year postdoctoral position with an ERC-funded research project titled 'Penal policymaking and prisoner experience: a comparative analysis' at the Prisons Research Centre, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. This project involved a comparative study of imprisonment experiences in Norway and England & Wales and included extensive fieldwork comprising qualitative and quantitative methods. Currently, Julie is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Carlsberg Foundation fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law, where she studies indeterminate sentences in Denmark, aiming to provide in-depth analysis of the experiences related to indeterminate sentencing in courts and prison practices. Her teaching and supervising interests include sociology of prisons, social control, comparative penology, and qualitative methodology.

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