Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Career Profile

• Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, 2009 +
• Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, 2004 – 2009
• Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Nottingham Trent University, 2000 – 2004
• Lecturer in Politics and Criminology, University of Leicester, 1997 – 2000
• Researcher, University of Leicester, 1994 – 1997

Memberships

• British Society of Criminology
• British Sociological Association
• European Society of Criminology
• UK Political Studies Association

Teaching Profile

I was involved in the design as well as the delivery of the School’s single honours degree programme in criminology as well as designing the core modules for its new MSc in Crime, Safety and Justice. This involvement reflects my pedagogic interests in the interrelationship of theory and method, of conceptual analysis and empirical investigation, in the social sciences. I am particularly interested in the importance of conceptual analysis for the development of applied social science and the relevance of this for the contribution that social science can make to government and public life. In these terms I am interested in social science as a vocation that can inform interventions in, as well as critical reflection about, the social world.

Current Undergraduate Teaching

• Theory and Method in Contemporary Criminology (SI0200)
• Criminological Practice (SI0204)
• Offending and Victimisation (SI0201)
• Dissertation supervision (SI0301)

Current Postgraduate Teaching

• Theories of Crime and Criminal Behaviour (SIT010)
• Criminological Research and Practice (SIT308/9)
• Community Safety
• Dissertation supervision

PhD Supervision

• Thomas Cartwright – Community safety in an age of austerity
• Sophie Chambers –Policing and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales
• Jabeth Decanay – Regulating health and safety in the maritime industry
• Danielle Rayner – Informal social control in de-industrialised communities