Dr Ahalya Bala

BA (Hons); MA; PGCE; PGDip; PhD; FHEA

Lecturer in Criminology

School of Law and Social Sciences

Role

Ahalya joined the School of Law and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University (OBU) in 2020, where she is currently a Lecturer in Criminology, Undergraduate Subject Coordinator for Criminology and Convener of the Criminology Research Group. Ahalya sits on the BAME (undergoing name change) Staff Network Committee and is a member of the University's Race Equality Steering Group, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network Steering Group and the Spring Hill Steering Group. Ahalya also provides research services with the Institute of Public Care at OBU.

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Modules taught

  • Researching Crime: Methods, Approaches, Ethics
  • Crimes of the State and Resistance
  • Globalisation and Crime
  • Criminology Dissertation
  • Creating Criminology

Supervision

Ahalya welcomes PhD applications in the following areas: diaspora politics, social movement studies, [counter]terrorism and state crime.

Research

- Ahalya researches and writes on 'Social Movements', 'Diaspora Politics', 'State Crime', 'Terrorism / Counterterrorism' and 'Ethnography'.

Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) - Member of British Association for South Asian Studies - Member of the British Society of Criminology

Conferences

Alternative Futures and Popular Protest - British Society of Criminology Conference - British Association for South Asian Studies Conference - Fighting for Justice: Families, Communities and Solidarity Networks Against State Harms and Violence - American Sociological Association - International Cultural Criminology - Common Study Programme in Critical Criminology