International Research in Corrections Conference (IRCC)

Alison Liebling

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and the Director of the Institute of Criminology’s Prisons Research Centre. She has carried out research on life in prison for over 30 years. Her books include Prisons and their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality and Prison Life (2004), The Effects of Imprisonment (2005, with Shadd Maruna), and The Prison Officer (2nd edition 2011). She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (2017 and 2022 editions). She has recently completed a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, carrying out the project, ‘Moral rules, social science and forms of order in prison’ and is publishing a book with Oxford University Press arising from that project (Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places).

Jennifer Galouzis

Assistant Commissioner of Strategy & Policy, Corrective Services NSW, Australia

Dr Chi Meng Chu

Group Director (Strategy & Research Group), Senior Principal Clinical & Forensic Psychology, Chief Data Officer, National Council of Social Service, Singapore

Dr. Chi Meng Chu is the Group Director (Strategy and Research Group), and the Senior Principal Clinical and Forensic Psychologist at the National Council of Social Service, Singapore. He concurrently holds an appointment as the Director (Special Projects) at the Ministry of Social and Family Development, Singapore. In addition, Chi Meng is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore. Chi Meng has had past stints in delivering forensic health services, overseeing research and evaluation programmes, as well as dabbling in policy work for youth-at-risk issues. Aside from implementing corporate strategies to develop the social service sector in Singapore, Chi Meng currently directs several longitudinal research programmes and a multi-birth-cohort study spanning more than 30 cohorts.

Dr James Ogloff JD/PhD

Distinguished Professor of Forensic Behavioural Science and Executive Dean, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Professor Ogloff is a clinical forensic psychologist and lawyer with more than four decades of experience working at the intersection of mental health, law, and corrections. Currently Executive Dean of the School of Health Sciences at Swinburne University, he has previously served as Executive Director of Psychological Services and Research at Forensicare. He established and led the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science for 15 years. He has played a leading role in shaping correctional and forensic practice in Australia and internationally. He has advised
governments, correctional authorities, and parole boards on offender rehabilitation, reintegration, and risk management, and has contributed to numerous national and international committees on corrections, youth justice, and offender treatment. As a clinician, he has extensive experience assessing and managing people who come into the justice system and providing expert evidence to courts and advice to release decision makers. His research and evaluation projects—spanning prison mental health systems, violence intervention programs, offender rehabilitation models, and reintegration planning—have been translated directly into policy and practice, including the design of programs and models of care within custodial and community settings. He has trained thousands of correctional and justice professionals in evidence-based offender assessment and rehabilitation, and has been recognised internationally for advancing approaches that balance community safety with opportunities for reintegration. His extensive body of work, including more than 400 publications, has focused on understanding and addressing the complex needs of offenders, reducing reoffending, and improving the pathways that enable individuals to successfully transition from custody to community.