Academic staff

I am a lecturer in Criminology in the Division of Social Sciences and joined LSBU four years ago. I currently teach a number of modules including Policing and Society (Level 5) and Deconstructing the Crime Problem (Level 4).

My research focuses on collaborating with activists and communities to expose and record crimes and harms in the English countryside, notably to non-human animals. This is currently positioned to the under-policing and under-criminalisation of foxhunting that intersects with privilege, law and classism. My research is based upon empirical evidence, aligning with activist criminology, that demonstrates the normalisation of exclusionary practices in the countryside that can also be extended to how, if and when other communities use rural space. More broadly, the research records how original criminal selectivity emerged centuries earlier, when contextualised to land accessibility, still evident in how we continue to navigate the countryside.

I have just completed an edited book on policing with my colleague Federica Rossi (due for publication, September 2025). I am collaborating with other academics on determining the causes and influences of the criminalization of activism, positioned to the fragility of capitalism and post-Brexit UK. I have also just completed a toolkit on decolonising criminology and curriculums, alongside other colleagues.

Courses taught

Criminology - BSc (Hons)

Postgraduate Research Supervision

Current