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Biography
Dr Chloe Holloway-George is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in the School of Law. She previously graduated from the University with a first-class honors in BA Law with American Law and a distinction in MA Socio-Legal and Criminological Research Methods.
Teaching
Dr Holloway-George is responsible for delivering lectures and small group teaching across a range of socio-legal and criminal justice modules to undergraduates and postgraduates. She teaches on the following modules: Equality, Discrimination and Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice Practice and Procedure; Criminal Law, and; Mental Health Law and Policy. She is also open to supervising dissertation students at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the areas of criminal justice, criminal law, neurodiversity, equality and discrimination, mental health and disability.
Dr Holloway-George is also interested in teaching and learning scholarship in the areas of inclusive design, assessment and feedback. In 2023, she completed a PGCHE at the University of Nottingham. As part of this, she completed an independent inquiry project on assessment design in Law. She has also previously worked with students on a Student as Change Agents project to understand the lived experiences of neurodivergent students in the School of Law and is currently working to identify ways to improve inclusion across teaching and learning.
Research
Dr Holloway-George research specialises in areas relating to neurodiversity and the law, disability rights, criminal justice and equality and discrimination. In particular, she has been working to improve the support of neurodivergent suspects in police custody through changes to police practice, custody environments and policy.
In 2018, she completed her PhD thesis titled 'Facilitating Access to Justice: Exploring the Experiences of Autistic Individuals Arrested and Detained in Police Custody'. This examined the difficulties that might be experienced by autistic individuals in police custody and the support they may require to enable them to participate in the police custody process effectively.
Following her PhD, Dr Holloway-George has worked with the Nottinghamshire Autism Police Partnership ('NAPP') and police forces to help identify ways to improve the support of autistic people in police custody. She has helped to co-produce an improved autism training package and toolkit for custody staff, delivered autism training for custody staff and offered advice on how police forces can make their custody suites more 'autism-friendly'. In 2020, she piloted this training across police forces in England to evaluate the potential impact on perceived knowledge and behaviour.
In 2019, Dr Holloway-George was awarded of the Future Promise award and runner up for the Outstanding Early Career Impact award as part of the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize in recognition of the impact her research has had on the support of autistic people in police custody.
She has recently been working to influence policy changes through legal reform and revision of police guidance aimed at standardising police practice to improve the support of neurodivergent suspects in police custody and ensure the protection of their human rights in this setting.
Dr Holloway-George is open to supervising PhD students in the areas of criminal justice, criminal law, neurodiversity, equality and discrimination, mental health and disability.
Admin
Dr Holloway-George is currently the Co-Director for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and People in the School of Law. I have also previously acted as a Disability Liaison Officer supporting students with disabilities and providing guidance on inclusive pedagogy.
Selected Publications
HOLLOWAY, CHLOE ALICE, MUNRO, NELL, JACKSON, JOHN, PHILLIPS, SOPHIE and ROPAR, DANIELLE, 2020. Exploring the autistic and police perspectives of the custody process through a participative walkthrough. Research in developmental disabilities. 97, 103545
CLARKE, N., MUNRO, N. and HOCKING, C., 2019. Going to Pot: Nick's Journey through the Criminal Justice System. In: FLYNN, E., ARSTEIN-KERSLAKE, A., DE BHAILÍS, C. and SERRA, M.L., eds., Global Perspectives on Legal Capacity Reform: Our Voices, Our Stories Routledge.