Dr Hannah King is an associate professor at Durham University and is currently Co-Chair of the Research workstream for the GCCS.
Her research is interdisciplinary within the area of Youth Studies and focuses on young people's experiences of marginalisation, youth transitions to adulthood, youth policy and youth justice. She has recently finished a Policy Fellowship with the Youth Futures Foundation (What Works Centre for Youth Employment), leading a major interdisciplinary complex mixed-methods research and policy project with key stakeholders. Hannah draws on her previous professional experiences in policy, youth work and youth justice and has over two decades' experience of participatory approaches to working with marginalised groups, particularly young people and those incarcerated in prison.
Hannah is Co-Director of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme at Durham University, bringing outside (university) and inside (incarcerated) students to learn together as equals in prison; she also co-facilitates the HMP Frankland Think Tank. Hannah co-leads several research projects with women with experience of the Criminal Justice System. She is an Editor of YOUNG (Nordic Journal of Youth Research) and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Youth Studies.