ProfessorIan O'Donnell

Ian O'Donnell is Professor of Criminology at University College Dublin. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Member of the Academia Europaea, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is co-editor of Incarceration: An International Journal of Imprisonment, Detention and Coercive Confinement and co-editor of The Irish Jurist. He was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford for 33 years. 

Professor O'Donnell's latest book, "Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose", published by New York University Press, won the 2025 Outstanding Book Award given by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section and the 2023 Outstanding Book Award given by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of International Criminology.

In 2023 Professor O'Donnell was awarded an LLD by the University of Cambridge.