Dr Tanya Palmer has been a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex since December 2013. Prior to this, Tanya held an ESRC post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Bristol (2012-13). Her teaching and research is primarily concerned with the parameters of the criminal law, with a particular focus on the sexual offences and the intersection of sexual and domestic abuse. She has a BA in Law from the University of Oxford (2005), and an MSc in Socio-Legal Studies (2007) and a PhD in Law (2012) from the University of Bristol.