Rate My Professor Matt Maycock

Matt Maycock is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts at Monash University. He earned his PhD in Gender and Development from the University of East Anglia in 2013, with a thesis titled Masculinity and Bonded Labour in Far-West Nepal, subsequently published as the monograph Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal (Routledge, 2018). Prior to his current role, Maycock was Baxter Fellow in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Dundee. His professional background includes employment at the Scottish Prison Service, conducting research on gender issues in prisons and facilitating staff development; as Investigator Scientist in the Settings and Organisations Team at the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, evaluating public health interventions in secure settings; and work in public health programming and campaigns aimed at improving the health of men and boys, alongside positions in the UK civil service and voluntary sectors.

Maycock's academic interests encompass gender within prison settings, with recurring focus on masculinities and the experiences of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals; health, everyday life, and staff cultures in prisons; and modern slavery, gender dynamics, and pathways to freedom, particularly through longitudinal research in a Nepali village of former bonded labourers. He has co-edited several influential books, including New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, with Kate Hunt), Prison Officers: International Perspectives on Prison Work (Springer, 2023, with Helen Arnold and Rosemary Ricciardelli), and Transgender People Involved with Carceral Systems: International Perspectives (Routledge, 2025, with Saoirse O'Shea and Valerie Jenness). Key articles include "The Transgender Pains of Imprisonment" (European Journal of Criminology, 2022), "Prisons Beyond the Binary: Reimagining Correctional Systems for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People in Custody" (Advancing Corrections, 2026), and "Performances of Emergent Masculinities Amongst Rickshaw Drivers in Nepal" (Asian Journal of Social Science, 2025). Previously Director of Monash's Bachelor of Criminology and Bachelor of Criminology (Policing) degrees, he oversaw Australia's second-largest undergraduate criminology program. Maycock serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Prison Health and editorial board member for the Prison Service Journal and Journal of Criminal Psychology.