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'.