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First Ad Astra scholar completes doctoral programme in law.
Congratulations to Cormac Behan who successfully defended his PhD thesis on 13 January. Cormac is the first Ad Astra scholar to complete the doctoral programme in law. His examiners were Professor Mick Ryan (
Cormac's research examined the level of civic engagement and political participation among prisoners in
Before beginning his PhD at the UCD Institute of Criminology Cormac taught history and political education in Irish prisons for ten years. He is on the executive board of the Correctional Education Association and on the editorial board of the Journal of Correctional Education. In 2007 he was an Intellectual Life Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Correctional Education,
