Dr Anna Di Ronco

Biography

Anna is a senior lecturer in Criminology at the Sociology Department of the University of Essex and Deputy Director for the Centre for Criminology. She has joined the Department of Sociology in September 2016, after working at the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law of Ghent University (Belgium), where she completed her PhD in Criminology. Before starting her PhD, she completed a five-years degree in law at the University of Trento (Italy). Anna’s research focuses on urban and digital criminologies, and on social harm in non-science-based health practices. Within the first two areas, her main research interests cover the regulation, representation and enforcement of incivilities in the urban space, and individuals’ and groups’ resistance to social control in the physical and digital space. She has published her research extensively in all these areas in internationally peer-reviewed journals, including The European Journal of Criminology, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Crime, Law & Social Change, Crime, Media & Culture, and The International Journal of Crime, Law and Justice. Anna has also co-authored one of the UK's best selling criminology textbooks (Criminology: A Sociological Introduction) with a team of colleagues from the Centre for Criminology and has co-edited a book on medical misinformation and social harm in non-science based health practices (both to be published in late 2019). Anna has given numerous presentations and papers at conferences in the UK and abroad, and has also been invited to give guest talks in many universities, including UNICAMP (Brazil), the University of Sassari (Italy), BGU (Israel), and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY, US). In 2019, she visited the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (VUB, Belgium) as a visiting research fellow. Her two more recent research projects focus on the local regulation of prostitution in European cities and their effects on sex workers (funder: The Sociological Review Foundation), and on the role of social media in supporting otherwise criminalised or silenced environmental activism (funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Trust).

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Criminology (Ghent University, Belgium)

• LLM (University of Trento, Italy)

Appointments

University of Essex

• Personal Tutor, Sociology, University of Essex (1/9/2017 - 31/8/2018)

• Event Co-ordinator, Sociology, University of Essex (1/8/2018 - present)

• Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminology @UoECrim, Sociology, University of Essex (1/9/2018 - present)