Evi Girling

Research Associate

Biography

Dr Evi Girling is a criminologist and anthropologist. She graduated from Duke University (BSE in Biomedical Engineering) and she moved to the UK to complete her MPhil and DPhil in Social Anthropology at Oxford University (Linacre College). Her DPhil was on Local history and identity in East Sutherland, Scotland.

She subsequently trained in Law (taking the Common Professional Examination and Legal Practice Course at Birmingham and De Montford Universities respectively) before joining the Department of Criminology at Keele University in 1994.

Since 2019 Evi has been Principal investigator and immersed in fieldwork on an ESRC project on Place, Crime and Insecurity in everyday life in Macclesfield in Cheshire with Professor Ian Loader, Professor Richard Sparks and Professor Ben Bradford

She recently retired from Keele University where she was a Senior Research Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in Criminology for many years. She is currently working with her co-investigators on publishing and consolidating findings from the Place, Crime and Insecurity research project.

Research Interests

Evi's more recent research interests have focused on place and insecurity. She has been Principal investigator on an ESRC project on Place, Crime and Insecurity in everyday life in Macclesfield in Cheshire with Professor Ian Loader, Professor Richard Sparks and Professor Ben Bradford. The study explores how people living in one English town, Macclesfield in Cheshire, talk about and act towards a range of threats that they regard as impinging on their safety. The project is revisiting a similar piece of research (also funded by the ESRC) in the 1990s with Ian Loader and Richard Sparks and Evi was also involved in the original research.

Evi's other strand of research interests are penal cultures and penal sensibilities particularly in relation to extreme punishments and the death penalty. Her work has focused on the abolition of the death penalty in Europe and abolitionist politics in the US.

Research projects & programmes

Centre for Criminology