Sandra Walklate is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool having previously held the Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology and held a conjoint Chair of Criminology at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Internationally recognised for her work in victimology, criminal victimisation and violence against women she was elected as a Fellow to the Academy of Social Science in 2005 and received the British Society of Criminology Outstanding Achievement Award in 2014.