Dr Marian Duggan

Dr Marian Duggan (SFHEA) is Reader in Criminology and Director of Studies for the MA Criminology.

She also serves in the following roles:

• Chair of the Rising Sun Domestic Violence and Abuse Charity, Kent
• Publications Chair for the British Society of Criminology, with editorial oversight of the annual Online Journal and biannual Newsletter
• Series Editor for the Gender and Crime in a Globalised World book series, with Bristol University Press.

Dr Duggan is also the editor of Revisiting the ‘Ideal Victim’: Developments in Critical Victimology (Policy Press, 2018) and author of Queering Conflict: Examining Lesbian and Gay Experiences of Homophobia in Northern Ireland (Ashgate 2012/Routledge 2016). She also co-authored Administrating Victimisation: The Politics of Anti-Social Behaviour and Hate Crime Policy with Dr Vicky Heap (Palgrave, 2014) and was a co-editor of Values in Criminology and Community Justice (Policy Press, 2013). 

Prior to arriving at Kent, Dr Duggan was Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University (2009-14). Dr Duggan completed her PhD, the first socio-legal exploration of lived experiences of homophobia in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, at Queen’s University Belfast (2010). 

Dr Duggan’s research explores and informs policy and practice responding to and reducing sexual, gendered, and hate-based victimisation.

Dr Duggan’s empirical research into Clare’s Law explores stakeholder perspectives on the efficacy of this information-sharing approach to domestic abuse prevention. She has published in the International Review of Victimology and the Journal of Gender-Based Violence and provided expert consultancy to the Home Office while updating the statutory DVDS guidance.

Dr Duggan’s recent research with victim advocates examined augmented safeguarding processes based on exploring how domestic abuse service providers pivoted to continue supporting victims during COVID-19. 

Dr Duggan has also collaborated on two Home Office funded projects exploring the perpetration of intimate partner abuse. One, conducted with colleagues at Kent, featured a mixed-methods study exploring technology-facilitated intimate partner violence. Another, undertaken with colleagues at Trinity College Dublin, assessed risk and protective factors for bisexual intimate partner violence, published in Trauma, Violence & Abuse.  

Through her research into misogyny / gender-based hate crime, Dr Duggan has contributed to Law Commission reviews on hate crime provisions in England and Wales and provided expert consultancy as part of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) design of criminal justice responses to gender-based victimisation across Europe. 

Dr Duggan has also been involved in activities aimed at addressing campus-based sexual victimisation and misconduct over the past decade. This has involved establishing and evaluating a range of initiatives at Kent, working with the Office for Students, and a Social Sciences collaboration to explore variations in institutional responses to sexual misconduct in higher education environments. Relatedly, Dr Duggan published cross-institutional criminological research into sexual misconduct in the higher education sector for the British Society of Criminology. 

As Director for Studies on the MA Criminology degree, Dr Duggan oversees the design, delivery and development of the postgraduate programme. Additionally, she convenes SOCI8322 Intersectionalities and crime alongside SOCI8680 Critical and Global Criminology.

On the BSc (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice degree, Dr Duggan convenes SOCI3050 Introduction to Criminology, and delivers lectures relating to gender, sexuality, victims and feminism on SOCI5002 Inequalities, Crime and Justice.

Dr Duggan is a firm believer in effecting social justice through reflective, transformational pedagogy therefore is a qualified facilitator for SOCI7470 Issues in Criminology: The Inside-Out Programme.

Shane Thiara (SEDarc funded): Understanding the nuance of victim advocacy and support for South Asian domestic abuse victims

Nellie Venner-King (SEDarc funded): Examining how gender and relationships affect criminal justice outcomes in cases of sextortion versus revenge porn 

• Rising Sun Domestic Violence & Abuse Charity Chair 
• British Society of Criminology Executive Committee member and Publications Chair
• Series Editor for Bristol University Press Gender and Crime in a Globalised World


Dr Duggan has previously held Executive Committee positions with the following organisations: 
• Sexual Violence Against Students UoK Steering Group
• Feminists@Law;
• International Network for Hate Studies
• Socio-Legal Studies Association
• British Journal of Community Justice
• HEReNI (formerly LASI)

Dr Duggan’s previous statutory and third sector partnership working has included roles with Circles UK; the Sheffield Domestic Abuse Helpline; South Yorkshire Stop Hate UK; and with South Yorkshire Police.