Staff profiles
Caroline O'Keeffe
Senior research fellow
Phone 0114 225 5723
Email c.o'keeffe@shu.ac.uk
Caroline O'Keeffe obtained her first degree in communication studies from Sheffield Hallam University and a Masters degree in sociolegal studies from the University of Sheffield.
She has been employed by the Hallam Centre for Community Justice for the past eight years and is a senior research fellow. During this time much of her work has been in collaboration with Supporting Others through Volunteer Action (SOVA), a voluntary organisation, and also conducting Ministry of Justice commissioned evaluations of offender management programmes.
Research interests
- using a peer research methodology to identify barriers to employment, training and education for women ex-offenders
- various evaluations of pilot projects commissioned as a result of the research findings
- research into barriers to non traditional working for disadvantaged women
- collaborating with transnational partners in the above work areas
- research into attitudes to learning among (ex)offenders and a review of e-learning in prisons
- evaluation of a prison based counselling service for men who have been abused
- Ministry of Justice commissioned process evaluations of integrated offender management, intensive alternatives to custody and layered offender management
- previous research includes managing a project investigating women's help seeking behaviour in relation to domestic abuse and she has a particular interest in empowering research methodologies
Author of recent publications
O'Keeffe , C. (2004) Object and Subject: The Challenges of Peer Research in Community Justice. British Journal of Community Justice, Vol 3 No 1
