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

External Activities 

• Chair, ‘Crime, Science and Politics’ working group of the European Society of Criminology
• Co-ordinator, ‘Young People, Justice and Community Safety’ thematic network of the Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice
• Associate Editor, Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Associate Editor, Sociology
• External Examiner at Northumbria University and London Metropolitan University

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. 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

• Theories of Crime and Punishment (SI0199)
• Theory and Method in Contemporary Criminology (SI0200)
• Criminological Practice (SI0204)
• Crime, Diversity and Criminal Justice (SI0184)
• Dissertation supervision

Current Postgraduate Teaching

• Theories of Crime and Criminal Behaviour (SIT010)
• Dissertation supervision

PhD Supervision

• Jabeth Decanay – Regulating health and safety in the maritime industry
• Nick Lord – Investigating and prosecuting corporate bribery
• Danielle Raynor – Informal social control in de-industrialised communities
• Rachel Southworth – Policing financial crime by banks
• Rachel Taylor Swann – Security in the night-time economy
• Jasmin Tregidga – Securitisation and routine policing