Ruth Penfold-Mounce

Ruth Penfold-Mounce is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Sociology Department at the University of York. Her background in Sociology is united with an interest in crime and deviance, death studies and popular culture and celebrity.

Ruth leads the Death and Culture Network (DaCNet) at York and is co-editor of Death and Culture Book Series (Bristol University Press). She is regularly asked to speak at academic events and does much public engagement work on radio and television as well as the annual York Dead Good Festival and York Festival of Ideas.