Dr Lara Palombo (she/her)  is a Lecturer in Criminology. She holds a BA (Hons), M.A. in Gender Studies and PhD in Cultural Studies. Her interdisciplinary research focuses upon spaces, practices and technologies of incarceration. In 2015, Lara completed her doctoral research on historical mutations of camps of indefinite incarceration and their impact on racialized communities and women. Lara specializes in settler colonial penal governance, transnational penal technologies, incarceration of migrants and diasporic women and media carceral imaginaries. She applies a critical theoretical framework based on feminist and critical race theory, intersectionality, anti-colonial and decolonial approaches, infrastructural theory, transformative justice and abolition. She is currently working on a project examining prisons and media carceral imaginaries during and post COVID. She has published in the Journal of Global Indigeneity, Journal of Globalization, Journal of Intercultural Studies and Continuum. Lara is an Italian migrant and has served as the Chairperson of NSW Immigrant Womens SpeakOut Association (IWSA) and on the Board of the Women in Prison Advocacy Network (WIPAN). She is currently the Secretary of the international Carceral Geography Working Group of the Royal Geographical Society-IBG.