Dr Chalen Westaby PhD, LLM, BA, PGCLTHE
Senior Lecturer In Law
- Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice
- Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice
- Social and Economic Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
Summary
I joined Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in 2008. I teach on the undergraduate LLB law degree . I have a PhD in Public International Law. However, more recently, my research has focused on emotional labour with studies in the fields of legal practice, criminological research and probation practice. I have also researched more broadly in relation to probation practice including work/life spillover, self-disclosure, working in the COVID pandemic, implementing a reflective supervision model, professional curiosity, and burnout. I am currently undertaking a study of emotional labour and boundary spanning amongst probation and prison staff.
About
I have a PhD in Public International Law in which I analysed the development of the right to self-determination between 1945 and 1961 from a diplomatic history and law and literature perspective. However, since 2010 I have undertaken research focusing on emotional labour. Although my main interest lies in the emotional labour performed by probation practitioners, I have also undertaken research into the emotional labour of solicitors, judges, and criminological researchers. I have also researched more broadly studying empathy in legal practice and emotions in the legal drama The Split. My research in probation practice has also focused on work/life spillover, self-disclosure, working in the COVID pandemic, implementing a reflective supervision model, professional curiosity, and burnout.
I am currently leading a SHRIF funded project studying the emotional labour and boundary spanning work of probation and prison staff.
I am the Associate Editor for the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice and I am a joint stream convenor of the Lawyers and Legal Professions stream of the Socio Legal Studies Association. I also regularly peer review for journals and academic publishers.
Teaching
Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Chalen delivers a module in Commercial Law at undergraduate level and International Trade Law at postgraduate level.
She is currently also a member of the teaching team for Law of Contract, a module taught at undergraduate level.
She has been involved in teaching on the Consumer Law and Policy, Law of Tort and the Law and Contemporary Society module at undergraduate level.
Courses taught:
LLB (Hons) Law
LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology
Modules taught:
Contract Law, Commercial Law, Public International Law, Employment Law, Tort Law
Publications
Journal articles
Westaby, C., Ainslie, S., Fowler, A., & Phillips, J. (2025). . European Journal of Criminology.
Barry, C., Westaby, C., Coen, M., & Howlin, N. (2023). . Journal of Law and Society.
Louis, A., Subryan, A., & Westaby, C. (2023). . Law and Humanities.
Westaby, C., Phillips, J., Fowler, A., & Ainslie, S. (2022). . European Journal of Probation, 15 (1).
Phillips, J., Ainslie, S., Fowler, A., & Westaby, C. (2022). . Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Ainslie, S., Fowler, A., Phillips, J., & Westaby, C. (2022). . Reflective Practice.
Phillips, J., Westaby, C., Ainslie, S., & Fowler, A. (2021). ‘I don't like this job in my front room’: Practising probation in the COVID-19 pandemic. Probation Journal, 68 (4), 426-443.
Phillips, J., Ainslie, S., Fowler, A., & Westaby, C. (2021). . The British Journal of Social Work.
Waters, J., Phillips, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (2020). . Methodological Innovations, 13 (2), 2059799120926059.
Westaby, C., Fowler, A., Phillips, J., & Waters, J. (2020). . International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 61, 100390.
Waters, J., Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Phillips, J. (2020). . Methodological Innovations, 13 (2).
Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Phillips, J. (2019). . International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.
Phillips, J., Fowler, A., & Westaby, C. (2018). International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62 (12), 3890-3909.
Westaby, C., & Jones, E. (2017). International Journal of the Legal Profession, 25 (1), 107-124.
Westaby, C., Phillips, J., & Fowler, A. (2016). . European Journal of Probation, 8 (3), 113-127.
Phillips, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (2016). . Probation Journal, 63 (2), 182-192.
Westaby, C. (2014). . The Law Teacher, 48 (3), 248-280.
Westaby, C. (2014). . European Journal of Current Legal Issues, 20 (1), 1-26.
Westaby, C. (2010). . International Journal of the Legal Profession, 17 (2), 153-174.
Westaby, C. (2007). . Journal of the Philosophy of International Law, 2, 6-38.
Fowler, A., Phillips, J., Westaby, C., & Ainslie, S. (n.d.). Dirty work in probation: the breadth and depth of taint amongst specialist roles. British Journal of Criminology.
Book chapters
Phillips, J., Ainslie, S., Fowler, A., & Westaby, C. (2024). . In Ricciardelli, R., MacDermid, J.C., & Ferguson, L. (Eds.) Occupational Stress Injuries: Operational and Organizational Stressors among Public Safety Personnel. (pp. 113-133). London: Routledge:
Phillips, J., Ainslie, S., Fowler, A., & Westaby, C. (2024). Burning Out in Probation. An Exploration of Organizational, Operational, and Personal Stressors Amongst Probation Workers in England and Wales. In Ricciardelli, R., MacDermid, J.C., & Ferguson, L. (Eds.) Occupational Stress Injuries. (pp. 113-133). Routledge:
Ainslie, S., Fowler, A., Phillips, J., & Westaby, C. (2023). . In Kay, C., & Case, S. (Eds.) Crime, Justice and COVID19. (pp. 50-75). Bristol University Press:
Westaby, C., & Subryan, A. (2020). Emotional Labour in the Legal Profession. In Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology. (1st). Routledge
Phillips, J., Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Waters, J. (2020). . In Phillips, J., Waters, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (Eds.) Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Routledge:
Phillips, J., Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Waters, J. (2020). . In Phillips, J., Waters, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (Eds.) Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Routledge:
Fowler, A., Phillips, J., & Westaby, C. (2020). . In Phillips, J., Waters, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (Eds.) Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Routledge:
Phillips, J., Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Waters, J. (2020). . In Phillips, J., Waters, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (Eds.) Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice. Routledge:
Waters, J., Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Phillips, J. (2020). . In Phillips, J., Waters, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (Eds.) Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Routledge:
Waters, J., Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Phillips, J. (2020). . In Phillips, J., Waters, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (Eds.) Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Routledge:
Fowler, A., Phillips, J., & Westaby, C. (2020). . In Phillips, J., Waters, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (Eds.) Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Routledge:
Phillips, J., Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Waters, J. (2020). . In Phillips, J., Waters, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (Eds.) Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice. Routledge:
Fowler, A., Phillips, J., & Westaby, C. (2017). . In Ugwudike, P., Raynor, P., & Annison, J. (Eds.) Evidence-based skills in community justice : international research on supporting rehabilitation and desistance. Bristol: Policy Press:
Books
Phillips, J., Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Waters, J. (Eds.). (2020). . Abingdon: Routledge.
Reports
Phillips, J., Westaby, C., Fowler, A., & Ainslie, S. (2022). . HMI Probation.
Westaby, C., Phillips, J., Fowler, A., & Ainslie, S. (2021). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Phillips, J., Westaby, C., & Fowler, A. (2020). . HMI Probation.
Theses / Dissertations
Goodwin, J. (2020). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Prowse, P., Bennett, A., & Taylor, C.
Other activities
Since 2011 Chalen has had a Course leader role and manage the LLB Business Law course.
In 2011 she also became the Induction Coordinator and is responsible for managing Orientation at all levels. She has also recently implemented innovative activities in the Induction Programme for first year Law students.