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Ben's PhD is a qualitative study of indefinite imprisonment, which he began in October 2018. He is a mature student whose interest in prisons developed through professional work on policy and service delivery programmes for a number of NGOs working in prisons. Before developing this interest, Ben worked as a secondary schoolteacher for a number of years.

Additional areas of expertise:

File sharing systems, Apollo (Cambridge University repository), sensitive data.

My role involves supporting the teaching and research activities at the Fitzwilliam Museum. I studied music and trained as a teacher at Cambridge University before switching to librarianship. I then did my information and library studies masters at Aberystwyth University, and have since worked in academic law and music libraries before coming to the Fitzwilliam. I am interested in Open Access and supporting scholarly research, and completed the Research Support Ambassador course in 2017.

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a Research Psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. I sit on the Executive Committee of the Division for Research and Methodology of the Psychological Society of South Africa and I am the Assistant Editor for the Journal of Open Humanities Data. I am interested in understanding language and interaction from social, cognitive and psychological perspectives, as well as applying, developing and evaluating psychometric assessments.