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Dr. Anna Schliehe

Research Assistant

RG Cultural Geography

University of Bonn

MSCA Fellow

Crime and Carcerality Research Group

University of Oldenburg

Areas of Teaching and Research

Anna Schliehe has been a member of the Cultural Geography Working Group since May 2021 and works part-time at the University of Bonn. She is also a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Oldenburg since September 2021. She is also a visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology and the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Anna is the treasurer of the Carceral Geography Working Group.

Anna Schliehe received her diploma from the University of Münster, Germany, in 2011 and subsequently completed an MRes in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. In 2016, she completed her PhD project entitled "Tracing outsideness: young women's institutional journeys and geographies of closed space." Her research is influenced by both human geography and criminology. She is interested in understanding the nature and experience of closed spaces and combines empirical with conceptually sophisticated research. Her research areas include the geography of prisons, the geography of young people, the ethnography of prisons, the geography of justice, and feminist geography.

Anna Schliehe has worked with qualitative and quantitative methods, exploring research in creative and collaborative ways. Her methods include feminist, structuralist, and post-structuralist approaches in areas such as ethnography, interviews, surveys, observations, photography, mental mapping, and more.

Anna Schliehe has many years of teaching experience and has developed a range of formats. Her teaching is guided by her research interests and methods, as well as courses on research ethics, fieldwork practices, and more.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2021: MSCA research Scholar, University of Oldenburg, DE

Since 2021: Research Assistant, University of Bonn, DE

2016 - 2021: Research Assistant, University of Cambridge, UK

2012 - 2016: PhD, University of Glasgow, UK

2011 - 2012: MRes, University of Glasgow, UK

2007 - 2008: Erasmus-Exchange, University of Glasgow, UK

2004 - 2011: Diploma Geography, Univeristy of Münster, DE


  • Geography of the prison
  • Geography of justice
  • Young People
  • Women
  • Prisons
  • Criminal Justice
  • Feministi Geography
  • Ethnographic und creative Methods

Regional Focus: Scotland, England and Wales, Norway

Teaching

  • B12 Project seminar: Borders, walls, fences - Geographies of inclusion and exclusion

Research Projects and Funding

Penal Policymaking and the Prisoner Experience: A Comparative Analysis (COMPEN), an der University of Cambridge

Running Time:

2016 - 2021

Funding::

European Research Council (ERC) Grant

Publications

Journal articles

Schliehe, A.; Philo, C.; Carlin, B, Fallon, C., Penna, G. (2022) Lockdown under lockdown? Pandemic, the carceral and Covid-19 in British prisons. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Link

Doxatt-Pratt, S.; Schliehe, A.; Laursen, J. (2022) “Thank you for having me”: The experiences and meanings of release from prison in Norway and England & Wales. Incarceration. Link

Crewe, B.; Ievins, A.; Larmour, S.; Laursen, J.; Mjåland, K.; Schliehe, A. (2022) Nordic penal exceptionalism: a comparative, empirical analysis. British Journal of Criminology. Link

Auty, K.; Liebling, A.; Schliehe, A.; Crewe, B. (2022). What Is Trauma-Informed Practice? Towards Operationalisation of the Concept in Two Prisons for Women. Criminology & Criminal Justice. Link

Mjåland, K., Laursen, J., Schliehe, A., and Larmour, S. (2021) ‘Contrasts in freedom: comparing open and closed prisons in England & Wales and Norway’. European Journal of Criminology. Link

Schliehe A, Crewe, B (2021) Top Bunk, Bottom Bunk: Cellsharing in Prisons. British Journal of Criminology. Link

Fraser, A; Schliehe A (2021) The Carceral City: Confinement and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave. British Journal of Criminology. Link

Schliehe, A.; Laursen, J.; Crewe, B. (2021) Loneliness in prison. European Journal of Criminology. Link

Henriksen, A.K.; Schliehe, A. (2020) Ethnography of young people in confinement – on subjectivity, positionality and situated ethics in closed space. Qualitative Research. Link

Disney, T.; Schliehe, A. (2019) Troubling institutions. Special Section Editorial. Area, Vol 51, No. 2, pp. 194-199.

Moran, D.; Turner, J.; Schliehe, A. (2017) Conceptualizing the carceral in carceral geography. Progress in Human Geography, Vol 42, No.5, pp. 666–686. Link

Moran, D.; Turner, J.; Schliehe, A. (2017) Response to the commentary on ‘Conceptualizing the carceral in carceral geography’ by Moran et al. Progress in Human Geography, Vol 42, No.5, pp. 803–804. Link

Schliehe, A. (2016) Re-discovering Goffman – contemporary carceral geography, the ‘total’ institution and notes on heterotopia. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, Vol 98, No. 1, pp. 19-35. Link

Schliehe, A. (2014) ‘Inside ‘the carceral’: girls and young women in the Scottish Criminal Justice System’. Scottish Geographical Journal, Vol 130, No. 2, pp. 71-85. Link

Book chapters

Schliehe, A. (2022) Prisons and Camps. In: Guillaume, X. and Grayson, K.  [Eds.] Security Studies Critical Perspectives. Oxford University Press. [in press]

Crowley, AR, Schliehe, AK, Vogel, M (2021) Girlhood incarcerated: perspectives from secure care. In: Vogel M, Arnell, L (Eds.) Living Like a Girl - Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in a European Context. Berghahn Books.

Moran, D; Schliehe, A (2017) Introduction: co-production and carceral spatiality. In:  Moran, D; Schliehe, A (Eds.) Confined Places, Secure Spaces: The Spatialisation of Studies of Confinement. Palgrave, London, pp. 1-12.

Schliehe, A; Moran, D (2017) Conclusion: reflections on capturing the carceral. In:  Moran, D; Schliehe, A (Eds.) Confined Places, Secure Spaces: The Spatialisation of Studies of Confinement. Palgrave, London, pp. 269-284.

Schliehe, A (2017) Towards a feminist carceral geography? Of female offenders and prison spaces’ In: Moran, D; Schliehe, A (Eds.) Confined Places, Secure Spaces: The Spatialisation of Studies of Confinement. Palgrave, London, pp. 75-112.

Schliehe, A; Crowley, A (2017) Carefully controlled: young people and their pathways through spaces of secure care. In: Horton J; Pyer, M; (Eds.) Children, Young People and Care. Routledge, London, pp. 108-123.

Schliehe, A (2016) Constraint locomotion: of complex micro-scale mobilities in carceral environments. In: Peters, K; Turner, J (Eds.) Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration. Routledge, London, pp. 115-130.

Schliehe, A (2016) Locking up children and young people - secure care in Scotland. In: Horton, J; Evans, B; Skelton, T (Eds.) Play, Recreation, Health and Well Being: Geographies of Children and Young People 9. Springer, London, pp. 601-619.

Books

Schliehe, A (2021) Young Women’s Carceral Geographies: Journeys In, Out, and Beyond Confinement. Emerald Publishing.

Moran, D.; Schliehe, A [Eds.] (2017) Confined Places, Secure Spaces: The Spatialisation of Studies of Confinement. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, London.

Special issues

Moran, D., Schliehe, A. (Eds.) (2017) Confined Places, Secure Spaces. The Spatialisation of Studies of Confinement. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, London.

Monographs

Schliehe, A. (2021) Young Women’s Carceral Geographies. Abandonment, Trouble and Mobility. Bingley: Emerald Publishing.

Further publications

Schliehe, A. (2021) Research on prisoners’ experiences from Norway and England & Wales. Inside Time - The National Newspaper for Prisoners and Detainees.

Schliehe, A. (2021) Evidence Paper for the British Government: Women in Custody [unpublished].

Schliehe, A. (2021) Feeding back research on comparing the imprisonment of men convicted of sex offences in England & Wales and Norway. Inside Time - The National Newspaper for Prisoners and Detainees.

Schliehe, A.; Przybylska, D. (2021) Prison ‘more painful’ for women: Research. Inside Time - The National Newspaper for Prisoners and Detainees.

Schliehe, A. (2019) Thinking through water – elemental metaphors in carceral environments. COMPEN Blog.

Schliehe, A. (2019) Book Review A. Chamberlen. Punishment and Society

Schliehe, A. (2019) Missing people and the pains of entry in the UK. COMPEN Blog.

Schliehe, A. (2018) Women's imprisonment and the experiences of foreign nationals. Border Criminologies Blog

Schliehe, A. (2018) Carceral mobilities. COMPEN Blog.