Dr. Orla Gallagher recently received her PhD from University College Dublin and she currently works as a Post-Doctoral Researcher within the Irish Prison Service, focusing on the role of experts by experience and how neurodiversity is responded to within the correctional system. In this article, she discusses the four studies that formed her doctoral thesis, Managing Serious Violence in The Irish Prison Service: Exploring the Experiences of Prisoners and Prison Officers through the Lens of the Power Threat Meaning Framework. Gallagher was a recipient of the 2023 IACFP Student Research Award. In October 2017, I entered uncharted territory as the first PhD candidate to be funded by the Irish … [Read more...] about Examining the Roots of Violence in the Irish Prison Service