Vicky Conway
DR
Dr Vicky Conway passed away in the summer of 2022, she is deeply missed by her friends and colleagues in DCU. She joined the School of Law and Governance in DCU in July 2015, having previously held positions at the University of Kent, Queen's University Belfast, the University of Limerick and the University of Leeds. Vicky is a graduate of UCC (BCL 2001, LLM 2002), the University of Edinburgh (MSSc Criminology 2003) and Queen's University Belfast (PhD 2008, PGCert Higher Education 2010). She was made Associate Professor of Law in 2017 and was the School's first Convenor of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Vicky was a committed socio-legal scholar who believed that academic research should be innovative and challenge and aim to directly inform legislative and policy developments. She was a leading researcher on policing in Ireland with an emphasis on the intersection between social change, police culture and police accountability. Her expertise in this area has been recognised in a number of Government appointments. She served twice as a member of the Policing Authority, and served on the Commission on the Future of Policing (May 2017- Sept 2018)
Along with colleagues Dr Yvonne Daly (Law and Government) and Dr Yvonne Crotty (Institute of Education) she was part of an EU Commission funded grant called SUPRALAT (http://www.salduzlawyer.eu/) which developed training for criminal defence solicitors to enable them to best defend their client's rights in the garda station. Now accredited by the Law Society of Ireland, Dr Daly continues to deliver this training.
In 2020 she started an innovative podcast called Policed in Ireland (@policedpodcast) which created a space to hear the lived experience of being policed in Ireland.
Vicky taught across a range of modules related to criminal law, criminology and policing. She held visiting scholar positions in North America, Australia and Ireland.
Vicky regularly contributed to media discussions on policing and criminal justice.
Vicky was a committed socio-legal scholar who believed that academic research should be innovative and challenge and aim to directly inform legislative and policy developments. She was a leading researcher on policing in Ireland with an emphasis on the intersection between social change, police culture and police accountability. Her expertise in this area has been recognised in a number of Government appointments. She served twice as a member of the Policing Authority, and served on the Commission on the Future of Policing (May 2017- Sept 2018)
Along with colleagues Dr Yvonne Daly (Law and Government) and Dr Yvonne Crotty (Institute of Education) she was part of an EU Commission funded grant called SUPRALAT (http://www.salduzlawyer.eu/) which developed training for criminal defence solicitors to enable them to best defend their client's rights in the garda station. Now accredited by the Law Society of Ireland, Dr Daly continues to deliver this training.
In 2020 she started an innovative podcast called Policed in Ireland (@policedpodcast) which created a space to hear the lived experience of being policed in Ireland.
Vicky taught across a range of modules related to criminal law, criminology and policing. She held visiting scholar positions in North America, Australia and Ireland.
Vicky regularly contributed to media discussions on policing and criminal justice.
Book
Book Chapter
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2012 | Vicky Conway, Jennifer Schweppe (2012) 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Miscarriages of Justice in Ireland'. Dublin University Law Journal, . | |
2011 | Dermot Walsh, Vicky Conway (2011) 'Police Governance and Accountability: An Overview of Current Issues’'. Crime, Law and Social Change, . | |
2011 | Vicky Conway, Dermot Walsh (2011) 'Recent Developments in Police Governance and Accountability in Ireland'. Crime, Law and Social Change, . | |
2009 | Vicky Conway (2009) 'A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? Evaluating the Impact of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission'. Irish Jurist, . | |
2009 | Vicky Conway, Michael Mulqueen (2009) 'The 2009 Anti-Gangland Package: Ireland’s New Security Blanket?'. Irish Criminal Law Journal, . | |
2008 | Vicky Conway (2008) 'Lost in Translation: Ireland and the Patten Report'. Northern Irish Legal Quarterly, . | |
2021 | Daly, Y.;Conway, V. (2021) 'Selecting a lawyer: the practical arrangement of police station legal assistance'. Journal of Law and Society, . [Link] [DOI] | |
2020 | Pivaty A.;Vanderhallen M.;Daly Y.;Conway V. (2020) 'Contemporary criminal defence practice: importance of active involvement at the investigative stage and related training requirements'. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 27 (1):25-44. [Link] [DOI] | |
2019 | Conway, V (2019) 'Near or far away: Local police governance in Ireland'. European Journal of Criminology, 16 :515-533. [DOI] | |
2019 | Vicky Conway and Yvonne Daly (2019) 'From Legal Advice to Legal Assistance: Recognising the Changing Role of the Solicitor in the Garda Station'. . |
Other Journal
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Research Interests
The central focus of Dr Conway's research to date involved a
critical analysis of policing in Ireland, the first of its kind to draw on
legal, sociological and criminological theories. Applying a diverse range of
methods from legislative and case-law analyses, oral history interviews with
retired police, and documentary and discourse analyses, she produced a
critical assessment of the development of policing in a post-colonial,
post-conflict society. Combined with empirical data part-funded by the British
Academy, this work (Policing Twentieth
Century Ireland) was published by Routledge in June 2013 to excellent
reviews. In Theoretical Criminology 19(3)(2015)
Mulcahy described it as “a most welcome—and much needed—addition to the
literature on policing in Ireland.”
A second aspect of her work investigated the governance and accountability of public police. She co-organised (with Dermot Walsh) an international conference on police governance which attracted participants from Europe, America and Australia. The papers were disseminated through a double special edition of the leading American journal, Crime Law and Social Change and have been widely accessed and cited. This work was critical to her contribution to the Policing Authority, evidence that she was recognised to be Ireland’s expert on police governance and accountability.
A third area of research concerned criminal procedure which builds on previous publications concerning miscarriages of justice, and a textbook Irish Criminal Justice: Theory Process and Procedure. She was part of a European Commission funded project (€580,000) which developed and delivered training for lawyers on attending interviews in police stations. This project was in partnerships with colleagues in Belgium, Hungary and the University of Maastricht. With Prof Yvonne Daly, she wrote a book on Criminal Defence Representation in Garda Stations with Bloomsbury.
Finally she was actively engaged in research on Ireland’s abortion law. She was commissioned by Labour Women to draft legislation which could operate post-repeal of the 8th amendment to the Constitution, she was invited by numerous NGOs and political parties to advise them on the key issues. This work has involved collaboration with a large number of academic and practitioner colleagues.
A second aspect of her work investigated the governance and accountability of public police. She co-organised (with Dermot Walsh) an international conference on police governance which attracted participants from Europe, America and Australia. The papers were disseminated through a double special edition of the leading American journal, Crime Law and Social Change and have been widely accessed and cited. This work was critical to her contribution to the Policing Authority, evidence that she was recognised to be Ireland’s expert on police governance and accountability.
A third area of research concerned criminal procedure which builds on previous publications concerning miscarriages of justice, and a textbook Irish Criminal Justice: Theory Process and Procedure. She was part of a European Commission funded project (€580,000) which developed and delivered training for lawyers on attending interviews in police stations. This project was in partnerships with colleagues in Belgium, Hungary and the University of Maastricht. With Prof Yvonne Daly, she wrote a book on Criminal Defence Representation in Garda Stations with Bloomsbury.
Finally she was actively engaged in research on Ireland’s abortion law. She was commissioned by Labour Women to draft legislation which could operate post-repeal of the 8th amendment to the Constitution, she was invited by numerous NGOs and political parties to advise them on the key issues. This work has involved collaboration with a large number of academic and practitioner colleagues.