Grace Gladys Famoriyo JP

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Lecturer and Course Director
Faculty:
Faculty of Business and Law
School:
Management
Location:
Cambridge

Grace is the Course Director for our postgraduate courses in MSc Marketing and MSc Brand Management. She is also a lecturer in the marketing, events and tourism subject group in the School of Management, Faculty of Business and Law.

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Background

Grace has many years of international consulting experience, including a high-profile Ministry of Justice project. She has worked with Fortune 100/500 companies (UK/international), public and third-sector organisations. Her consulting expertise includes IT, leadership/management development, marketing, publishing and learning/development.

Grace is passionate about social justice and social reform to improve access, inclusion and opportunities for disadvantaged or marginalised women, in particular those within the criminal justice system.

Grace is an award-winning coach, international speaker and author with over 25 years' experience of transforming women's lives. Grace has had countless non-academic articles published in international magazines as a columnist. She has been featured on TV and radio internationally.

Grace has a special interest in emotional and mental well-being. She has written several books, including her bestsellers, Overcoming Emotional Baggage, Bounce Back, Healing A Discouraged Heart, and Quit Hiding, Start Living.

Grace is also the brainchild behind several philanthropic women's projects over the last 25 years. This include the Monetise Your Expertise Bootcamp project, which was launched during the global pandemic. Both projects aimed to support ethnic minority women in improving their socioeconomic status and digital literacy skills. Additionally, the project aimed to build their confidence and self-esteem and manage their emotional/mental health.

Grace also launched the Overcoming Emotional Baggage Women’s Community after publishing her book, Overcoming Emotional Baggage (2006).

Spoken Languages
  • English
  • Yoruba
Research interests
  • Digital exclusion of prisoners, in particular Black female prisoners, and the impact on their rehabilitation and reintegration.
  • The role of technology in prisons for rehabilitation and reintegration.
  • The experiences of ethnic minority women in the criminal justice system.
  • New approaches to sentencing, rehabilitating and reintegrating females in the criminal justice system, especially Black female prisoners and the wider female prison population.
  • The application of penal legislations, policies and practices and the associated problems.
  • Learning platforms for prisons of the future.
  • Digital literacy and skills frameworks, competency models and education for the digitally excluded in society.
  • Digital exclusion in society
  • Ex-female offender education and employment after prison/probation.
  • Online learning and digital access for digitally excluded ex-prisoners.
  • New approaches/models for skills training and employment for ex-offenders.
Teaching
Qualifications
  • Learning & Teaching Practice, Anglia Ruskin University
  • MA in Publishing, Anglia Ruskin University 
  • MSc in Information Systems Design, University of Westminster 
  • BSc in Biochemistry, Greenwich University 
  • Charted Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) Certificate in Training Practice, Milton Keynes College
  • Coach Training Programme, Coach University 
  • City & Guild: Further and Adult Education Teaching Certificate, Milton Keynes College
  • Various TV, radio and media training
Memberships, editorial boards
  • Committee Member, Safe and Inclusive Communities, Research, Innovation and Impact Anglia Ruskin University
  • Member, European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services & International Corrections and Prisons Association
  • Member, Socio-Legal Studies Association
Recent presentations and conferences

Famoriyo, G. (2024) Reimagining Digital Equity In UK Prisons: Bridging the Digital Divide For Returning Citizens, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Portsmouth (UK), 26-28 March.

Famoriyo, G. (2024) Digital Prisons: An Oxymoron or a Necessity for Rehabilitation and Successful Reintegration of Returning Citizens?, International Correction And Prisons/European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services fifth global Technology in Corrections Conference (TIC), Istanbul (Turkey), 21-24 April.

Famoriyo, G. (2023) Effects of Unequal Treatments and Hidden Punishments Of Black Female Prisoners in the UK, Trinity College Dublin Law Student Colloquium, Dublin (UK), February 2023.

Famoriyo, G. (2023) Black Female Prisoner’s Lives Matter: Redefining Black Female Prisoner's Reintegration With A Digital Twist, International Correction And Prisons/European Organisation of Prison and Correctional International Correctional Research Symposium, Porto (Portugal), 27-30 March.

Famoriyo, G. (2023) Effects of Digital Exclusion in Prisons: Improving Rehabilitation and Reoffending Outcomes in UK Prisons, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Ulster (UK), 4-6 April.

Famoriyo, G. (2023) Hidden Punishments of Black Female Prisoners in the UK, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Ulster (UK), 4-6 April.

Media experience

Grace has taken part in TV, radio and media training and her media experience includes:

  • interviews on TV and radio (UK/international)
  • published columnist for international magazines (20 years).