Shane is a Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University Law School, UK and a Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies (Essex University, UK). He has visited more than 20 countries to provide advice and support on their prison systems on behalf of individual governments, international organisations; UN agencies; European Union and the Council of Europe. This has involved missions to a number of European countries and to Libya, Pakistan, Palestine, Haiti, Nigeria, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia and Mongolia. He spent three years living in Turkey as the Council of Europe’s advisor to Turkey on its Penal Reform and Judicial Modernisation Programme and six months in Libya as the Senior Advisor to the Minister of Justice in 2013.