Rate My Professor Stacy Banwell

Professor Stacy Banwell is Professor of Criminology at the University of Greenwich, having joined the School of Law in September 2007. She completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Wales, Bangor, where her thesis examined women's subjective accounts of their violent behaviour, leading to publications in Feminist Criminology. Her research focuses on gender and the violence(s) of war and armed conflict, including wartime rape and sexual violence, gender and economic foreign policy in warzones, conflict-related sexual violence and reproductive healthcare access in crises, reproductive violence against humans and non-human animals, gender and climate change in atrocity crimes, and multi-species justice. She participates in the EU Horizon/UKRI Transformative Change for Biodiversity and Equity project. As REF29 Unit of Assessment Lead for Social Work and Social Policy, she contributes to university initiatives on recruitment, admissions, and student welfare. She co-leads modules on Crime in the City, Crime and the State, and Women, Power, Crime and Justice.

Professor Banwell's key publications include monographs such as The War Against Nonhuman Animals: A Non-Speciesist Understanding of Gendered Reproductive Violence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Gender and the Violence(s) of War and Armed Conflict: More Dangerous to be a Woman? (Emerald, 2020), and the forthcoming An Intersectional Analysis of Climate Change and Atrocity Crimes: Life on Earth is in Crisis (Routledge, 2026). She co-edited The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence (Emerald, 2023) and Sex and Crime (SAGE, 2021). Her scholarship has informed policy at the United Nations, UN General Assembly, and Ministry of Justice. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she received the Outstanding Achievement in Research award in 2021 and the Early Career Researcher Conference Award in 2011. She serves on the international editorial advisory board of Third World Quarterly and editorial boards of Frontiers: Social Demography and Climate Change and International and Public Affairs. Professor Banwell frequently presents at conferences and delivers public lectures, including keynotes on ecocide and reproductive violence.