Dr Ahalya Bala
BA (Hons); MA; PGCE; PGDip; PhD; FHEA
Lecturer in Criminology
School of Social Sciences
Role
Ahalya is in the School of Social Sciences, where she is currently a Lecturer in Criminology, the Undergraduate Subject Coordinator for Criminology and Convenor of the Abolitionist and Liberatory Thought and Praxis Research Group. Ahalya also sits on the University's Race Equality Steering Group, the BAME Staff Network Committee (name change underway) as Events Coordinator, the Spring Hill Prison Steering Group and the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group. She also provides research services with the Institute of Public Care at the University and delivers a course for external clients on 'Everyday racism and anti-racism in the workplace.'
Teaching and supervision
Courses
Modules taught
- Researching Crime: Methods, Approaches, Ethics
- Crimes of the State and Resistance
- Globalisation and Crime
- Crime and Criminology in Context
- Criminology Dissertation
- Creating Criminology
- 'Terrorism' and Abolitionist Futures
Supervision
Ahalya welcomes PhD and MSc by Research applications in (but not restricted to) the following areas: diaspora politics, social movements, 'terrorism', state crime; (de)coloniality; resistance; critical ethnography; standpoint theory; abolitionism; scholar activism; public scholarship.
Research
Ahalya researches around the marginalisation and criminalisation of social movement activism, countering 'counterterrorism' discourses and practices, diaspora politics and mobilisation, resistance to state crime, organising and prefigurative politics within social movements, critical ethnography, scholar activism and standpoint theory.