Dr. Rosemary Ricciardelli

Dr. Rosemary Ricciardelli is Full Professor (PhD) and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness, at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Fisheries and Marine Institute. She was the winner of the 2023 International Corrections and Prison Association’s Research Excellence Award, the Canadian Sociological Association’s Angus Reid Applied Researcher Award, and the President’s Award for the International Community Justice Association in 2024. Ricciardelli was also elected to the Royal Society of Canada and is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Her research centers on evolving understandings of the needs of public safety personnel, their leaders, and those who experience systems of justice with a focus on occupational and posttraumatic stress injuries, vulnerabilities, and risk. As of 2025, she has published 18 books, 325+ journal articles, and 75+ chapters and given over 600 presentations in the areas of police, firefighting, correctional workers, public safety communicators, security intelligence officers, and people who are criminalized, and social, mental, and physical health. As a sex and gender researcher, her interests lay in supporting societies through empowerment of the frontlines for positive community impacts always informed by evidence. She leads a longitudinal study on the mental health and well-being experiences of correctional officers employed by Correctional Services Canada, has participated in correctional officer training with the Service, and in partnership with all provincial and territorial Correctional Services in Canada. She also works in partnership with the Uganda Prisons Service and Michigan Department of Corrections, as well as select youth justice and heath organizations, and contributes to MicroResearch International. She has completed multiple studies in probation and parole, both federally and in the provinces and territories.