Dr. Deanna Dadusc is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Criminology at the School of Applied Social Science. Her research focuses on the criminalisation of social movements in Europe, with a specific focus on the criminalisation of migrants' solidarity and of squatting.

She is co-editor of a special Issue for the journal Citizenship Studies, titled: 'Citizenship as inhabitance? Migrant housing squats versus institutional accommodation' (2019). She also authored multiple articles and chapters, including “Squatting and the undocumented migrants’ struggle in the Netherlands” (2017) and 'Enclosing Autonomy: The politics of Tolerance and Criminalisation of Squatting (2019). Together with Dr. Eleni Dimou and Prof. Pierpaolo Mudu, Deanna is currently co-authoring a book titled ‘’Borders, Repression and Resistance: the criminalisation of migrants’ solidarity’’ (Routledge, forthcoming).

At the University of Brighton, she has developed a year-long module titled ‘The Criminology of Borders’ in collaboration with Raphael Schlembach. The module critically addresses issues of migrants’ social exclusion and criminalisation.

Dr. Dadusc coordinates the 'Social Movements and Radical Politics' strand of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE - University of Brighton). Moreover, she contributes to the organisation of the 'Radical Housing Forum' and related reading group.