Deborah Drake

Originally from Canada, Deb joined The Open University in 2007 after completing a PhD at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Prior to this, she undertook two undergraduate degrees and an MA at the University of Saskatchewan, an institution with which she continues to maintain academic links.

She is a board member of the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative, an interdisciplinary, cross-faculty research centre concerned with developing and supporting research projects and papers concerned with problems of crime and justice, and has a long-standing interest and personal affiliation with critical criminological work, being a commissioning editor for a book series entitled Critical Criminological Perspectives (Palgrave), which captures the original and innovative ways that critical criminological discourses engage with contemporary issues of crime, harm and justice.

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