Cara Hunter (she/her)

Thesis title: Debating the future of Scottish imprisonment, 2008-2020

Qualifications

University of Edinburgh:

LLB Law Hons (2017)

Msc Criminology and Criminal Justice, With Distinction (2019)

T.B. Smith Prize for Most Distinguished Scholar graduating from the LLM or MSc postgraduate degrees (2019) 

 

Undergraduate teaching

Tutorial teaching and marking 2021-2025

 - Intro to Criminology (Ordinary)

 - Introduction to Global Crime and Justice (Ordinary)

 - Sociology 1a (Ordinary)

- The Social Life of Food (Honours)

 

Workshop design collaboration, workshop delivery, and marking, School of Social and Political Sciences 2024

- Sociology 1a: The Sociological Imagination (Ordinary)

 

Peer Tutor Mentor, Law School 2023-2025

 

2023 EUSA Teaching Awards Nominee for Intro to Criminology and Intro to Global Crime and Justice

Research summary

Politics - Imprisonment - Scotland

Knowledge exchange

Hunter, C.L.C, McNeill, F. & Tripkovic, M. (2023) Criminal disenfranchisement: Developments in, and lessons from, Scotland. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 00 , 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12546 

SCCJR-funded internship with the Scottish Prison Service

Current project grants

ESRC Studentship

Conference details

Co-organiser and host of Workshop and Chatham House Rules discussion on prisoner dis/enfranchisement in Scotland (2022)

Co-organiser of panel for British Society of Criminology Conference 2024: Narrative Threads: Unravelling Stories in Scottish Criminological Research

 

Papers delivered

Dis/enfranchisement in Scotland: a discussion paper (2022) - Workshop with key stakeholders in Scottish enfranchisement debates, SCCJR-funded

The Scottish Prison Service as a character in the tale of Scottish justice (2023) - SCCJR PhD Symposium

Interviewee narratives: A story told through Tarot (2023) - Crime Justice and Society Series, University of Edinburgh

Dangerous imaginaries: Scottish pasts and Scottish futures? (2023) - University of Edinburgh PhD Showcase

Narrative Threads: Unravelling Stories in Scottish Criminological Research (2024) - British Society of Criminology Conference