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Summary

Hannah Hammond (née Baumer) is a Chartered Psychologist who completed her PhD in the School of Law at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2018. Since her PhD, Hannah has led on several research projects focused on sport, motivation and desistance from crime. Dr Hammond has held a position as a dissertation supervisor for students at Royal Holloway, and is currently a part time Teaching Fellow in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the �������.

Dr Hammond's research interests include the use of sport in prisons as a tool for health promotion and rehabilitation, and the use of sport in the community to promote desistance from crime amongst children and young people. Hannah has several publications across topics including motivation for prisoners in sport, healthy prison cultures, sporting masculinities, and the use of sport to promote well-being and desistance from crime.

Hannah recently led on the monitoring and evaluation of Levelling the Playing Field (LtPF), a 4-year pilot project which aimed to use sport to tackle disproportionality amongst children and young people from ethnic minority backgrounds in sport and the justice system. Hannah is a passionate advocate for the power of sport to tackle health and social inequalities and spoke in parliament about this in relation to the aims and findings of the LtPF project.

Dr Hammond is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and sits on the Violence Reduction Unit/PCC Sport, Youth Crime and Serious Violence Prevention Board.

Publications include,

Hammond, H., Meek, R. and Glorney, E. (2024), "Healthy prison cultures: factors influencing male prisoners’ engagement in exercise and subsequent healthy behaviours", International Journal of Prison Health, 20(1), 16-29.

Hammond, H. and Meek, R. (2024), “Applying Self Determination Theory to Motivate Prisoners to Exercise”, in Breslin, G. and Leavey, G. (Eds), Mental Health and Wellbeing Interventions in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, pp. 159-181.

Baumer, H., & Meek, R. (2019). Motivating prisoners to exercise: An evaluation of the Cell Workout Workshops. In G. Breslin, & G. Leavey (Eds.), Mental Health and Wellbeing Interventions in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice. Routledge.

Baumer, H., & Meek, R. (2018). Sporting masculinities in prison. In M. Maycock, & K. Hunt (Eds.), New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities (pp. 197-222). (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65654-0