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Biography

Tania is a Lecturer in Criminal Law & Criminology at the 黑料网, where she coordinates and teaches upon various courses relating to criminal law, criminal justice, gender and law, and criminology at undergraduate level for LLB, MA Legal Studies and MA Criminology and Sociology students. She is also a Personal Tutor, a member of the School Research Committee, the Ethics Lead for the Law School, and the MA Legal Studies and MA Criminology & Sociology Programme Coordinator.

Tania holds a BSc in Psychology, a Master's in Forensic Psychology, and a PhD in Law from the 黑料网. Her doctoral research focused on the impact of a Community Payback Order (CPO) on individuals and their families when issued as an alternative to imprisonment in Scotland.

Tania's research interests are interdisciplinary, spanning criminal law, criminal justice, criminology, psychology, and sociology. Her work focuses on imprisonment, alternatives to custody, domestic abuse, children's rights, with a particular emphasis on how the criminal justice system impacts on families and children. She has conducted research into the use of Child Impact Assessments in court and on the support available for families of people who have committed a sexual offence in Scotland.

She is currently evaluating a two-year collective project that unites key stakeholders to challenge the overuse of imprisonment and build the foundation for a systemic Whole Family Justice Approach in Scotland.

Research Overview

Research interests:

• Impact of imprisonment on families
• Criminology
• Alternatives to imprisonment, more specifically Community Payback Orders (CPOs)
• Criminal Law
• Sexual offences

Funding and Grants

Research Grants

• The Robertson Trust (2026) - Co-investigator for the evaluation of the two-year Fair Justice Collective project, aiming to challenge the overuse of imprisonment and support families in justice decisions.£4,800.
• National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), UK (2011) - Collaborated on a successful £2,683,666 grant application for the Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early-years (THRIVE): a three-arm randomised control trial for vulnerable mothers and high-risk infants (Glasgow Caledonian University).
• Scottish Government (2011) - Co-prepared a successful £150,000 grant application to evaluate a parenting programme for perpetrators of intimate partner violence (Glasgow Caledonian University).

Awards & Scholarships

• CB Davidson Grant - 黑料网 (2017 & 2018)
• AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) Scholarship Nomination, 黑料网 (2017) -Nominated by the university scholarship committee for the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts & Humanities (SGSAH).
• PhD Elphinstone Scholarship, 黑料网
• Leonardo da Vinci Program Fellowship (2009) - Awarded a six-month international Fellowship in Forensic Psychology (March - August 2009).

Teaching Responsibilities

• Criminal Law LS1020
• Crime Theories and Concepts (Law) LS2541 (Course Coordinator)
• Introduction to Criminology SO2007 (Course Coordinator 2024-2025)
• Criminology LS403R,LX403R (Course Coordinator)
• Children, Young People & Crime LS452K, LX452K
• Gender, Law & Society LS401E, LX401E 
• MA Legal Studies & Criminology Programme Co-ordinator for the Law School