Anne-Marie Kilday is a British academic. In August 2023 she became vice chancellor of the University of Northampton, succeeding Nick Petford. She is a professor of criminal history.
Education and career
Kilday was a student at the University of St Andrews. She went on to study for a PhD at the University of Strathclyde, supervised by T. M. Devine, and became an academic at Oxford Brookes University. At Oxford Brookes, she was head of the History Department, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and pro vice-chancellor for student and staff experience, before moving to the University of Northampton as vice chancellor.
Controversies
In October 2023 under Kilday's leadership the University of Northampton announced that the university's Institute of Leather Technology was at risk of closure with accompanying redundancies. This £5.5 million facility had been opened just 4 years earlier. It had in part been developed in Northampton because of the 900 year old leather and shoe industry in Northampton, an industry that had been particularly dominant in the city from the 19th century until the late 20th century. This announcement was therefore described as a potentially very serious moment for the Northampton leather industry with several key figures in this field condemning the decision to base its closure on profitability rather than its research reputation and its long heritage.
Books
Kilday is the author or co-author of: Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland (Royal Historical Soc., 2007) Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain, 1600—1900 (with David Nash, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) A History of Infanticide in Britain, c. 1600 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Crime in Scotland 1660–1960: The Violent North? (Routledge, 2019) Beyond Deviant Damsels: Re-evaluating Female Criminality in the Nineteenth Century (with David Nash, Oxford University Press, 2023)
She is an editor of: Histories of Crime: Britain 1600–2000 (edited with David Nash, Bloomsbury, 2010) Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700: Micro-Studies in the History of Crime (edited with David Nash, Bloomsbury, 2017) Murder and Mayhem: Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain (edited with David Nash, Bloomsbury, 2018) Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940: Microhistories of Justice and Injustice (edited with David Nash, Bloomsbury, 2020)
References
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of St Andrews Alumni of the University of Strathclyde Academics of Oxford Brookes University Academics of the University of Northampton