People
A team of research and support staff keep us at the forefront of criminology education.
Teaching and research staff
Judith Aldridge
Professor of Criminology
Research specialisms: drug use, markets, and policy.
Emma Barrett
Professor of Psychology, Security and Trust
Research specialisms: emerging technologies and crime; misinformation, deception, credibility assessment, threats to democracy; investigative sense-making and decision-making.
Katie Benson
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: financial crime; illicit finance; (anti-)money laundering; organisational misconduct; regulation and compliance.
Niels Blom
Lecturer in Criminology and Social Statistics
Research specialisms:quantitative methods, domestic violence, gendered violence, family demography, socioeconomic inequalities.
Rose Broad
Professor of Criminology
Research specialisms: human trafficking, modern slavery, responses to violence, organised crime, the management of offenders.
Laura Bui
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: psychological approaches and theories, metascience and criminological knowledge production, violence and health, cross-cultural/comparative and quantitative research methods.
David Buil-Gil
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology
Research specialisms: communities and crime, comparative criminology, adolescent offending, cybercrime, and quantitative research methods.
Jon Davies
Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: whitecollar and corporate crime, modern slavery and labour exploitation, food fraud, regulation, organised crime.
Jo Deakin
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: control, 'management', inclusion/exclusion and reintegration of young people.
Tomas Diviak
Presidential Fellow
Will Floodgate
Teaching and Scholarship Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: drugs and addiction, sociology of crime and deviance, politics of austerity, austerity measures, the impact of the recession.
Claire Fox
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: domestic violence, disability and abuse and the complex experiences of victimisation.
David Gadd
Professor of Criminology
Research specialisms: criminology, domestic violence, hate crime, modern slavery, free association narrative interview.
Eon Kim
Lecturer in Criminology
Landon Kuester
Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: prisoner health, violence in prison, drug use, offender management, AI methodology and rehabilitation technology.
Nick Lord
Professor of Criminology
Research specialisms: financial and economic crimes, fraud, the organisation of serious crimes for gain, food frauds and crimes, regulation theory, comparative criminology.
Caroline Miles
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: homicide, femicide, filial violence (child and adult perpetrated violence towards parents, parricide, abuse of women in public spaces (including women runners), domestic violence and 'honour-based' abuse.
Felipe Neis Araujo
Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: drug policy, state violence, inequalities, qualitative methods, ethnography.
Thiago Oliveira
Lecturer in Policing
Research specialisms: quantitative methods, policing, life course, and neighbourhoods. Specifically: legal cynicism theory, procedural justice theory, legal socialisation, legitimacy of the law, stop and search, police misconduct, crime and neighbourhoods, social inequality, longitudinal methods, causal inference.
Olga Sanchez de Ribera
Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: neurocriminology, programme evaluation, risk assessment, violent offenders (i.e. psychopaths, sexual and domestic abusers), meta-analysis.
Jon Shute
Teaching and Learning Director and Scholarship Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: neurocriminology, programme evaluation, risk assessment, violent offenders (i.e., psychopaths, sexual and domestic abusers), meta-analysis.
Reka Solymosi
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods
Research specialisms: fear of crime, new forms of data, environmental and spatial criminology.
Fiamma Terenghi
Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: transnational organised crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation, tobacco smuggling (and their financial management), digital technologies in facilitating (organised) crime, cybercrime, urban security, qualitative methodologies.
Nico Trajtenberg
Lecturer in Criminology
Emily Turner
Teaching and Scholarship Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: the prison experience, desistance from crime, fathers in prison, education in prison, Learning Together, and the response to equality and diversity in prisons.
Meropi Tzanetakis
Lecturer in Digital Criminology
Research specialisms: illicit drug markets, digital technologies, cryptomarkets, digital criminology, critical theory, empirical research methods.
Marion Vannier
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: sociology of punishment, criminal law, and human rights.
Lisa Williams
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: drug use, life course perspectives, theories of risk and visual ethnography.
Yuanyuan Zhang
Research Associate, Centre for Digital Trust and Security
Honorary staff
Stephen Collett
Honorary Reader in Criminology
Duncan Craig, OBE
Honorary Senior Research fellow
Liliya Gelemerova
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Bill Hebenton
Research specialisms: comparative research on 'national' criminologies, crime and punishment in China and the Greater China region (Taiwan), regulation of sexual offenders in the community
David Bewley-Taylor
Cath White, OBE
Honorary Professor of Criminology
Emeritus Professors
- Rebecca Dobash
- Russell Dobash
- Howard Parker
- Kenneth Pease
