Dr Sofia Buncy is the Director of the Muslim Women in Prison Project and a foremost practitioner and thought leader on the experiences of Muslim women in the Criminal Justice System. She was the first researcher in the UK to look at the experiences of Muslim women in her award-winning report ‘Muslim women in Prison’ and is currently co-researching a fourth report funded by Barrow Cadbury into the experiences of young Muslim women in contact with the CJS alongside Leeds Beckett University.Notably, in 2019 Sofia and her team also set up the country’s first re-entry hub for Muslim women prison leavers in Bradford demonstrating what a culturally and faith compliant rehabilitation model looks like. Sofia and her teams work continues to influence policy and practice across CJS providers.