Becka Hudson

Becka Hudson is a postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck’s School of Historical Studies. Her work looks at the interaction between psychiatry and imprisonment. She works on the UKRI funded project Cognitive Behavioural Therapies in Britain: Welfare, Society and the Individual since 1948, led by Dr Sarah Marks. Becka's part of this project investigates the use of cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT) in ‘offending behaviour change’ courses in prisons and probation.

Her PhD, completed at Birkbeck’s Criminology Department, investigated the diagnosis and management of ‘personality disordered offenders'. Becka brings ethnography and archival work together to situate social practices in political-economic and global context. Becka is a former Associate Editor of Law and Critique, former Associate Lecturer in Criminology and is a founding member of Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Mental Health.