Dr. Christina Quinlan Technological University Dublin, Ireland

Dr. Christina Quinlan lectures in Research Methods at TU Dublin, Ireland. Previously she was Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Justice, and Director of the Institute for Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justice at De Montfort University, UK. She has a background in social research and has worked... read morein Britain and Ireland as a social scientist in third level education and in the community and voluntary sector.

Her areas of interest include gender, crime and punishment, media and communications, and social research methods. She has written extensively on women and criminal justice, social control and the state, research methodologies, feminist methodologies, visual methods, action research and ethnography. She was a founding member of the Irish Media Research Network and she was for four years a member of the board of the Sociological Association of Ireland.