Personal statement

Kayleigh joined CYCJ in July 2024 as a Research Associate on the Nuffield-funded project ‘Challenge Justice Inequalities: Co-producing change with children in conflict with the law’. The project will run from 2024-2026 and aims to explore how intersecting inequalities affect children’s experiences of the justice system. The project involves working closely with a Young Advisory Group who are directly involved in the research, analysis and production of outputs.

Kayleigh has recently undertaken her PhD at the University of Bath titled ‘The Imaginary Queer Prison: The Possibilities and Limitations of Queering the Prison’. This was an interdisciplinary thesis that explored conceptualisations of queer spaces, uses and meanings of ‘queer’, LGBTQ+ pains of imprisonment and the use of speculative fiction to (re)imagine responses to the social and economic inequalities faced by LGBTQ+ communities.

Her research interests broadly include justice inequalities, gender and sexuality, queer politics, and creative methodologies.