Amy Gibbons

Amy is a PhD candidate and post graduate teaching assistant in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham. Her research explores how regulatory reform is experienced and interpreted by those working across the agricultural sector, using a environmental procedural justice lens. It draws on interviews with farmers, land mangers, and other professionals working across the agricultural sector, as well as a detailed analysis of policy documents published since 2018 as we left the EU, and therefore the Common Agricultural Agreement, and entered into the Agricultural Transition Plan.

She holds a first class BA (hons) in Criminology, and a distinction MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice, both from the University of Lincoln. Her previous dissertations covered similar interests across environmental harms and green criminology, notably ecocide and the soft drinks industry, and victimisation of non-human animals and legal personhood. Her teaching experience covers core criminology modules of criminological theory and media representation, and the criminal justice system of England and Wales

Her wider interests include rural criminology and the sensory, with a book chapter in publication, titled 'Seeing and Sensing Environmental Harm: The death of the British countryside', in The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology (forthcoming) edited by Herrity, K., Sharma, K., Umamaheswar, J. and Warr, J.