Patricia Gray was a Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She joined the University of Plymouth in 1998 and previously worked at the University of Hong Kong.

Member of the British Society of Criminology; Member of the European Society of Criminology; Member of British Society of Criminology Youth Criminology/Youth Justice Network; Member of British Society of Criminology Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network; Member of the Howard League for Penal Reform. Set up the Howard League Student Society at Plymouth University in 2011. 

I was invited in 2021 by the British Society of Criminology to be interviewed as part of their ‘Connecting Criminologists’ project. Here is the link to the interview: Dr Arta Jalili-Idrissi interviews Dr Patricia Gray – BSC, Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network (wordpress.com)

Reviewer for Research Councils:

 a. External reviewer for the Research Grants Council (equivalent to the ESRC in UK) in Hong Kong since 2008.

 b. Reviewer for the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) in UK since 2010.

 c. Reviewer for Nuffield Foundation research since 2019.

 External Examination and Consultancy:

a.  External Examiner for the undergraduate Criminology Programme at Queens University Belfast (2017-2021). 

b.  External Assessor for the undergraduate and postgraduate Social Work/Criminal Justice Programmes at Hong Kong Baptist University (2007-2013). 

c.  External Examiner for the BA (Hons) in Criminology at Southampton Solent University (2006-2009).

d.  External Examiner for 6 successful PhD Awards at the Universities of Bristol (1999), Hong Kong (2002), Southampton Solent (2016), Liverpool (2017), Lancaster (2018), and Middlesex (2021).

Article and Book Reviewer:

Article Reviewer: Punishment and Society; European Journal of Criminology; Youth Justice: An International Journal; Policy and Politics; Crime Prevention and Community Safety; Asian Journal of Criminology; Contemporary Social Science; The Journal of Social Policy; European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research; Hong Kong Journal of Social Work; International Journal of Rural Crime; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Children and Youth Services Review; British Journal of Social Work; Children and Society; Howard Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Journal of Youth Studies. Book Reviewer: Routledge Publishing; Howard Journal; Policy Press; International Journal of Social Work Education; and Bristol University Press.

Patricia taught in four areas on the Criminology and Criminal Justice undergraduate programme, namely youth criminology and youth justice; comparative youth justice; penal theory and policy ; and gender and criminal justice. She also taught on the Masters Degree in Criminology  and is the Director of Studies for several postgraduate students, three of whom have recently successfully obtained PhDs.