Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt

DPhil Criminology

Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt has been awarded a scholarship from CAPES Foundation, an agency under the Brazilian Ministry of Education, to pursue her doctorate degree here at the Centre for Criminology. Her supervisor is Dr. Carolyn Hoyle and the provisional title of her thesis is 'THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY IN RESTORATIVE PRACTICES WITH YOUNG OFFENDERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES: Some Implications for Brazilian Youth Justice'. She obtained her BA in Law in 2003 at the Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Brazil. In 2005 she completed her MSc in Criminology, with distinction, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. From 2006 to 2009 she worked as a lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Faculdade Integrada do Recife, where she was head of the law course for one academic year. In 2009 she was invited to lecture Criminal Law at Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, from where she received a three year sabbatical to pursue her DPhil studies at the University of Oxford. During her lectureships at Faculdade Integrada do Recife and Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Fernanda supervised many undergraduate dissertations on topics related to Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminology and Victimology. Since 2006 she has been invited to speak at important international events such as the 1st World Congress on Restorative Juvenile Justice (Lima, Peru) and the 1st International Seminar on Restorative Justice (São Paulo, Brazil). Since August 2007 she has been an associate member of the Brazilian Society of Victimology and since March 2008 she has been a researcher of the Center for Study on Coercive Institutions and Criminality (NICC) of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil). During her first year as a DPhil student here at the University of Oxford (academic year 2010/11) Fernanda has co-convened the Criminology Research Students Discussion Group (CDG) and presented a paper at the International Graduate Legal Research Conference 2011 (King's College London).