Dr Jennifer Turner

Personal Statement

Dr Jennifer Turner is an Honorary Research Fellow. She joined the Department in January 2017 where she worked as a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography until October 2020. Her research interests fit broadly at the intersection of cultural and political geography regarding how the contemporary penal system is integrated into British society. Her monograph, "The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space" interrogates the notion of a hard and fast separation between the inside and outside of prison by presenting a variety of case studies that demonstrate a complex and changeable boundary relationship. Continuing to focus on the everyday, performed, and practised experiences of carceral space, other research interests include prisoner identities; conceptualising carceral space; and the (im)mobilities inherent in incarceration.

Jennifer works full-time in the Institute for Social Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. Jennifer is also secretary of the Carceral Geography Working Group of the RGS-IBG.