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The School of Law and the European Centre for the Study of Hate are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Mark Walters as Adjunct Professor of Criminal Law and Hate Studies. His research interests are focused primarily on hate crime studies, as well as criminal law and criminal justice reform with a special emphasis on restorative justice practice and theory. Mark's research has a particular focus on anti-LGBTQ+ hate and LGBTQ+ rights more broadly. Mark previously completed his doctorate in law (criminology) specialising in hate crime and restorative justice at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford (2012). He has also completed an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Research Methods) at the Centre for Criminology University of Oxford (2008), an LLM specialising in criminal justice at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2006), and an LLB, at the University of Sussex (2002). Mark is particularly interested in connecting academic research to policy and law making, and was previously an Impact Assessor on the REF 2021 subpanel for Law.