Dr Michelle Newberry BSc (Hons), MSc, PgCTHE, FHEA, PhD
Associate Professor | Programme Director, BSc Hons Criminology and Psychology | Head of Work Planning | Academic Integrity Lead

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Dr Michelle Newberry is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton.
I joined the University of Southampton in 2018 after working for nine years as a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Portsmouth. Prior to my posts in academia I worked in prisons and psychiatric hospitals with violent offenders.
My research primarily seeks to understand offenders’ motivations for criminal behaviour as well as attitudinal change and desistance from offending. I am particularly interested in violent crime, including murder, domestic violence, and animal cruelty, and the interrelations between these.
I have conducted various projects which have investigated how domestic violence perpetrators abuse companion animals as a way to manipulate and coerce human victims. I am also interested in perpetrators' motivations for engaging in wildlife crime and am currently carrying out research that is investigating the poaching of rhino horn and pangolin scales in East Africa (funded by the UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; DEFRA).