Dr Carina Aileen O'Reilly

Dr Carina O’Reilly has taught politics, sociology, policing and criminology at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and has developed two Masters degrees, in International Relations and in Contemporary Policing at Anglia Ruskin University. She is Deputy Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln. Her doctoral research examined political legitimacy and values in local policing.

Carina has an MA from the University of Cambridge in Social and Political Sciences and also holds a Masters in Strategic Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She left IHS Jane’s after seven years as a writer, editor and senior analyst on European security issues. She is a specialist on politics, policing and security issues in Europe, and until 2016 was Deputy Leader of Cambridge City Council.