David Honeywell

Dr David Honeywell is a lecturer in criminology at Arden University. He is also currently a co-Investigator for large scale study funded by the NHIR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) working on the PROSPECT programme (Prevention of suicide behaviour in prison: enhancing access to therapy).

David began his academic career in 2013 at the University of York where he worked as an Associate Criminology Lecturer alongside studying his PhD about ex-prisoners and the transformation of self through higher education. His PhD was inspired by his own personal journey as an ex- prisoner who escaped a dysfunctional life through education later in life. While in prison in the 1990's he gained an Open University qualification which later led to degrees in criminology, social research methods and sociology.

He has taught criminology and sociology at the universities of York, Leeds Beckett, Durham, Hull, Sunderland and Manchester as well as being a regular guest speaker across the university circuit.

David has published extensively on his own lived experiences and in relation to his expertise of desistance theory. In 2012 he self-published his autobiography Never Ending Circles and has since gone on to publish a short monograph: The Ambiguities of Desistance: Ex-offenders, Higher Education and the Desistance Journey and is now working on his second monograph: Living Desistance: Breaking the Cycle.