Transgender Women in Carceral Settings, International Reflections and Perspectives

WICC2025 Presentation by Dr Matthew Maycock and Annette Bromdal (WICC2025-PID100)

Authors

Matthew Maycock

Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia

Matthew Maycock, PhD, is a senior lecturer in Criminology at Monash University. He was previously a Baxter Fellow in Community Education at the University of Dundee and is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Matthew previously working within the criminal justice system in Scotland as a Learning and Development Researcher at the Scottish Prison Service. Additionally, he was previously an Investigator Scientist within the Settings and Organisations Team at the University of Glasgow leading on the evaluation of a public health intervention adapted for prison settings. Matthew undertook his PhD at the University of East Anglia (UK) and leads on an ongoing longitudinal study analysing modern slavery and freedom in Nepal through the theoretical lens of masculinity. Throughout various studies, Matthew has consistently worked on gender issues with critical studies on men and masculinity being a particular focus. Matthew is the co-editor of four edited collections, all focusing on aspects of life in prison, and he sits on the editorial board of three journals as well as being a co-editor of the International Journal of Prisoner Health.

Annette Bromdal

Associate Professor, UniSQ, Australia

Annette Brömdal (PhD) is an Associate Professor and leads the Sexuality and Gender Research Program Team housed in the UniSQ Centre for Health Research. Their health promotion and rights research focus on bodies, gender and sexuality through co-designing and working in partnerships with LGBTQIA+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy community stakeholders. As an inter/nationally recognised scholar, their research contributes to an important evidence-base utilised by multi-stakeholders to alleviate injustices for diverse LGBTQIA+ communities across societal settings. Annette has contributed to 55+ high-quality research outputs, and have been awarded AUD$6,6Min research/grant funding as Chief/Co-Investigator. They have been invited to deliver trans affirming professional development session to inter/national staff caring for trans persons in prison, provided policy directives to different Departments of Corrections on trans and intersex incarcerated persons in Australia, are currently an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (D1), the International Journal of Transgender Health (D1), and an Editor of the book series Routledge Studies in Gender and the Criminal Legal System. They have had their work cited by the UN report “Mapping of Good Practices for the Management of Transgender Prisoners” (2020), and the recent World Professional Association for Transgender Health's “Standards of Care” Version 8 (SOC-8; 2022). In 2024, Annette was co-awarded the Rosalind Franklin Society Special Award in Science with the article “Developing the ‘Oppression-to-Incarceration Cycle’ of Black American and First Nations Australian Trans Women: Applying the Intersectionality Research for Transgender Health Justice Framework” selected as the best paper of the year in the Journal of Correctional Health Care.

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