Dr. Kiconco Milliam is a sociological criminologist and a gender specialist. Milliam is a teacher by profession and has taught at the university level in Uganda for 20 years. She is a lecturer at Kyambogo University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Population Studies. Outside the university, Milliam works part-time as a Senior Research Fellow with Action Coalition for Climate Change, a local Non-Governmental Organisation as a gender specialist on issues related to the impact of climate change on women. She is a board member at the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, a Non-Governmental Human Rights and Advocacy Organisation in Uganda. She also serves as an external examiner for different Universities in Uganda. Milliam is a member of different national and international professional organizations that include among others; The Asian-African Association for Women, Gender and Sexuality, Gender Based Violence Prevention Network (Uganda Office), Association for Women’s Rights in Development, World Society of Criminology and International Criminology Association. Milliam holds a first-class degree in Social Sciences (Sociology and Gender Studies) from Makerere University, Uganda, a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and a PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences (Criminology) from the City University of Hong Kong. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Education for Sustainability from London South Bank University, UK and a Diploma in Education from the Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo, Uganda. Her PhD study titled “A Phenomenological Study of Female Murderers: Investigating Forms of Victimization and Pathways to Homicide Offending and Imprisonment in Uganda” has been published in different international peer-reviewed journals and presented at different international conferences as paper outputs. At the 2nd International Conference on Gender and Sexuality in Bangkok, Thailand, Milliam’s presented paper was selected as the best and she was awarded a certificate and a medal. Also, at the 6th International Conference on Gender and Women Studies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Milliam was again selected as the best presenter and awarded a certificate of recognition. Milliam has won several competitive grants to fund her studies and research. Her recent grant funded the ongoing study on “The women’s experiences of pregnancy and childbirth in a prison environment in Uganda”. Her research interests include; gender inequality, violence against women, feminist studies, gender and crime and women in the criminal justice system.