Fairleigh Gilmour

Fairleigh Gilmour was until recently the only lecturer to teach at a tertiary level ‘inside the wire’ in an Aotearoa New Zealand prison. She is developing a prison teaching initiative at the University of Otago in New Zealand and several colleagues have now joined her in teaching at the local prison. Higher education offerings for incarcerated students in New Zealand are very limited. Fairleigh co-organizes a collective of educators and stakeholders across New Zealand who are trying to increase higher education opportunities for incarcerated students and are working towards ensuring full degrees can be completed by incarcerated learners.