
People
A team of research and support staff keep us at the forefront of criminology education.
Our range of knowledge and experience means we can offer quality expertise and support to all our students, graduates and research connections.
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: betrayal, deception, credibility assessment, cyber-dependent and cyber-enabled crimes and criminals, sense-making and decision-making, threats to democracy.
Katie Benson
Lecturer in Criminology
Rose Broad
Professor of Criminology
Research specialisms: human trafficking, modern slavery, responses to violence, organised crime, the management of offenders.
Laura Bui
Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: psychological criminology, young people, violence prevention, social narratives on crime and criminality, low crime in Japan.
David Buil-Gil
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology
Research: geographic and small area estimation application in criminology, crime mapping, measurement error in criminological research, emotions about crime, perceptions about police, new methods for data collection and open data.
Julia Buxton
Professor of Criminology
Jon Davies
Lecturer in Criminology
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.
Dave Gadd
Professor of Criminology
Research specialisms: criminology, domestic violence, hate crime, modern slavery, free association narrative interview.
Joanna Hill
Lecturer in Criminology
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: corporate bribery and corruption, corporate and white-collar crimes, financial and economic crimes, food frauds and crimes, regulation theory, comparative criminology.
Caroline Miles
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: homicide, domestic violence, serious and fatal violence towards parents, gendered violence, responses to violence, the relationship between alcohol, drugs and violence.
Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: drug policy, state violence, inequalities, qualitative methods, ethnography.
Olga Sanchez de Ribera
Lecturer in Criminology
Jon Shute
Teaching and Learning Director and Scholarship Lecturer in Criminology
Research specialisms: psychology and criminology, moral neutralisation theory, moral development, policy evaluation research.
Reka Solymosi
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods
Research specialisms: fear of crime, new forms of data, environmental and spatial criminology.
David Straw
Teaching Assistant
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.
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.
Research Associate, Centre for Digital Trust and Security
Honorary staff
Stephen Collett
Honorary Reader in Criminology
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
Emeritus Professors
- Rebecca Dobash
- Russell Dobash
- Howard Parker
- Kenneth Pease