Rate My Professor Martina Feilzer

Professor Martina Feilzer is Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice in the School of History, Law and Social Sciences at Bangor University, where she has been since 2007. She studied law at the University of Tübingen, earned an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Edinburgh in 1999, and completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2008 on the influence of the media on public perceptions of crime and criminal justice. Before joining Bangor, she worked for six years as a research officer at the University of Oxford's Centre for Criminology, contributing to projects funded by the Youth Justice Board, Home Office, and Nuffield Foundation. At Bangor, Feilzer has led extensive research on criminal justice workings, including policing, probation privatization, domestic violence protection notices, and organisational culture in North Wales Police, often in partnership with ESRC-funded WISERD Civil Society Centre and the Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice, where she serves as co-director.

Feilzer's research focuses on the relationship between the public and criminal justice institutions at local, national, and European levels; media effects on public opinion; legitimacy, trust, and penal policy; comparative and historical criminal justice studies; and mixed methods approaches, including public narratives and data visualization. Her influential publications include the highly cited 'Doing Mixed Methods Research Pragmatically: Implications for the Rediscovery of Pragmatism as a Research Paradigm' (2010, Journal of Mixed Methods Research); 'Privatising Probation: Is Transforming Rehabilitation the End of the Probation Ideal?' (2015, Policy Press, with John Deering); 'A Pragmatist Approach to Mixed Methods Research' (2023, Routledge); 'Scrutiny of Police Institutions and the Spectre of Culture' (2024, Political Quarterly, with Bethan Loftus); and 'Sex Offenders Emerging from Long-Term Imprisonment' (2002, British Journal of Criminology, with Roger Hood et al.). She has provided evidence to the House of Commons Justice Committee, contributed to the Lammy Review on BAME overrepresentation, and engaged in public lectures and media. Feilzer is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (elected 2022) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.