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Ian O'Donnell

Full Professor

School of Law

  • Full Professor
    School of Law
  • 01 716 4121
  • University College Dublin, School of Law, Sutherland School of Law Belfield Dublin 4

BIO

Ian O'Donnell is Professor of Criminology at University College Dublin. Previously he was Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, Research Officer at the Oxford University Centre for Criminological Research, and Research Assistant at the University of London.

He is a Research Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford; a Fellow of the British Psychological Society; a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; a Member of the Academia Europaea; a Member of the Royal Irish Academy; and co-editor of Incarceration: An International Journal of Imprisonment, Detention and Coercive Confinement. In 2023 he was awarded an LLD by the University of Cambridge.

Professor O'Donnell's latest book, "Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose", published by New York University Press, won the Outstanding Book Award given by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of International Criminology.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor of Criminology
    University College Dublin, IrelandJul 2006
  • College Lecturer
    University College Dublin, IrelandSep 2003 - Jun 2006
  • Research Fellow
    University College Dublin, IrelandOct 2000 - Aug 2003
  • Research Officer
    University of Oxford, United KingdomJun 1992 - Sep 1997
  • Research Assistant
    University of London, United KingdomSep 1989 - May 1992

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director
    Irish Penal Reform Trust.Oct 1997 - Sep 2000

DEGREES

  • LLD
    National University of Ireland
  • LLD
    University of Cambridge
  • MA
    Trinity College Dublin
  • MA
    University of Oxford United Kingdom
  • MPhil
    University of Cambridge
  • PhD
    University of London

CERTIFICATIONS

  • FBPsS
    British Psychological Society, Leicester, United Kingdom
  • FRHistS
    Royal Historical Society, London, United Kingdom
  • MRIA
    Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland
  • MAE
    Academia Europaea