Associate Professor and Director the MSt Applied Penology, Criminology and Management, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

Dr Jake Phillips is Associate Professor and Director the MSt Applied Penology, Criminology and Management at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge. He has undertaken research across all areas of the criminal justice system including: prisons, probation, the police, courts and sentencing, youth justice and parole. This research has ranged from interviews with stakeholders and people in prison and on probation, observational research, quantitative methods and creative approaches. He has carried out in-depth funded research into the emotional labour of probation practice, probation officer well-being, the impact of inspection on probation, how youth offending teams work with young people engaged in knife crime and people who die whilst under probation supervision.

Recently completed and ongoing research projects include:

• Penal Supervision in Comparative Context, funded by the Leverhulme Trust
• A comparative study of parole oral hearings across remote and in-person settings, funded by British Academy
• An evaluation of the youth2adulthood transitions hub in Newham, funded by the Ministry of Justice
• An exploration of hope in probation, funded by Research England (via the University of Nottingham)