54. Kimberley Brownlee: The right to hope in prison

Professor Kimberley Brownlee is a philosopher. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Prior to that, she lived in the UK for close to 20 years and was a professor at the University of Warwick and senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. Her work focuses on loneliness, belonging, social human rights, punishment, conscientious belief, and civil disobedience. She is the author of two books: Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience, and of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms. She has engaged with senior management teams in UK prisons who are working to improve the ways they speak - and think - about the people in their care.