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Dr Tania Loureiro

Dr Tania Loureiro
Dr Tania Loureiro
Dr Tania Loureiro

BSc (Hons), MSc, GMBPsS, PhD

Lecturer

51cg
School/Department
School of Law


Biography

Tania is a Lecturer in Criminal Law & Criminal Justice at the 51cg, where she coordinates and teaches upon various courses relating to criminal law, criminal justice, gender and law, and criminology at undergraduate level for LLB, MA Legal Studies and MA Criminology and Sociology students. She is also a Personal Tutor, a member of the Research Committee, and the Ethics and Research Integrity Lead for the Law School.

Tania holds a BSc in Psychology, a Master's in Forensic Psychology, and a PhD in Law from the 51cg. Her doctoral research focused on the impact on families and individuals who have received a community sentence as an alternative to imprisonment in Scotland.

Tania's research interests are interdisciplinary, spanning criminal law, criminal justice, criminology, psychology, and sociology. Her work focuses on imprisonment, alternatives to custody, children's rights, and the impact of the criminal justice system on families and children. She has conducted research into the use of child and family impact assessments in court and on the support available for families of people who have committed a sexual offence in Scotland.

Qualifications

  • PhD - Law 
    2021 - 51cg 

    PhD thesis - Exploring experiences of an imposition of a Community Payback Order on individuals and family members: A thematic analysis.

  • MSc in Forensic Psychology 
    2008 - University of Minho, Portugal 
  • BSc in Psychology 
    2004 - University of Maia, Portugal 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

 

 

External Memberships
  • Graduate Member of the (BPS) since January 2010
  • Associate Researcher of  
  • Member of the
  • Member of the network

 

Latest Publications

  • Response to Prison Population and Penal Reform: Working Towards Sustainability consultation

    Loureiro, T., Nugent, B.
    51cg: School of Law. 22 pages.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Response to the Public Consultation for the Draft Domestic Abuse Guideline

    Loureiro, T., Fassnidge, J., De Gioia-Carabellese, P., VanNart, C.
    51cg: School of Law (Document). 18 pages.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Families of people convicted of a sexual offence: Stigma, state, and a new imposed identity

    Loureiro, T., Loucks, N.
    Families of People in Prison: Theoretical Perspectives on Power, Gender and the State. Kotova, A., Kluge, A. (eds.). Routledge
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Neurodevelopmental evidence and the age of criminal responsibility: Implications for Scottish law reform

    Loureiro, T.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • Are the recent mistaken releases just a tip of the iceberg regarding the criminal justice system in UK?

    Loureiro, T.
    British Society of Criminology Newsletter, vol. Winter
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
    • [ONLINE]

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Research

Research Overview

Research interests:

  • Impact of imprisonment on families
  • Criminology
  • Alternatives to imprisonment, more specifically Community Payback Orders (CPOs)
  • Criminal Law
  • Sexual offences

Funding and Grants

Research Grants

  • The Robertson Trust (2026) - Co-investigator for the evaluation of the two-year Fair Justice Collective project, aiming to challenge the overuse of imprisonment and support families in justice decisions.
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), UK (2011) - Collaborated on a successful £2,683,666 grant application for the Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early-years (THRIVE): a three-arm randomised control trial for vulnerable mothers and high-risk infants (Glasgow Caledonian University).
  • Scottish Government (2011) - Co-prepared a successful £150,000 grant application to evaluate a parenting programme for perpetrators of intimate partner violence (Glasgow Caledonian University).

Awards & Scholarships

  • CB Davidson Grant - 51cg (2017 & 2018)
  • AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) Scholarship Nomination, 51cg (2017) -Nominated by the university scholarship committee for the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts & Humanities (SGSAH).
  • PhD Elphinstone Scholarship, 51cg
  • Leonardo da Vinci Program Fellowship (2009) - Awarded a six-month international Fellowship in Forensic Psychology (March - August 2009).
Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

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