Ms Antonia Wood's Qualifications (3)

BA (Hons) Criminology (First Class)
Bachelor's Degree

Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	2007 - 2010
Awarding Institution	Manchester Metropolitan University

MRes
Master of Research (MRes)

Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	2010 - 2011
Awarding Institution	The University of Manchester

PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	2011 - 2015
Project Title	Challenging Occupational Norms: An Ethnographic Study of Female Prison Officers in a Women's Prison
Project Description	This thesis offers a snapshot of prison life during a particularly tumultuous period in contemporary British penology, whilst providing an important counter-narrative to previous gendered studies of prison occupational culture. Staff-prisoner relationships are central to the running of prisons (Sparks et al, 1996) and this thesis argues these relationships are becoming less robust due to the lack of face-to-face contact, reducing personal interactions and ultimately the quality of the prison regime. This thesis also argues mental illness is a key challenge for the prison officers, and will highlight the officer’s knowledge of this issue is limited due to a lack of sufficient training being available. This thesis will also address the impact of the occupation on female officers, and how personal issues such as childbirth can create unique emotional burdens for some of the female officers. Relatedly, this thesis argues prison is an emotional milieu where the officers are forced to manage their emotions under pressure, and how the mis-management of these emotions can lead to the job spilling-over into the private lives of the prison officers.
Awarding Institution	- The University of Salford
Second Supervisor	Muzammil Quraishi
Thesis	Challenging occupational norms : an ethnographic study of female prison officers in a women's prison