Crime and Social Harm

Sadiya Akram is a specialist in the politics of race. Her research explores the varied ways in which racially marginalised groups mobilise. To date her research has explored race-rioting, the politics of the incarcerated, and Muslim women’s experience of racism. Central to Akram’s research is a conceptual critique of the core concepts relating to debates on racism, and she has ...

Sarah's academic research is concerned with children and young people’s varied journey impediments and their consequences.

Ideas are drawn from the new mobilities paradigm in order to problematise underexplored areas of children and young people’s lives. In particular, the rejection of static-place based societal understandings, allows movement inequalities to instead be ...

Emma is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Birmingham. Her first book, entitled The Lived Experiences of Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison, will be published by Routledge Criminology and Criminal Justice in 2023.   

Emma’s research interests include wrongful conviction, the maintenance of innocence and the sociology of prison life. She draws on material from a ...

Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminology, and is among the Top 2% of the most highly cited scientists in the world based on the metrics compiled by Stanford University. He is ranked Top 0.5% in the subfield of criminology. Dr Chan’s research focuses on sexual homicide, sexual offending, stalking behaviour, juvenile delinquency, psycho-criminology, and Asian ...

Dr Timothy G. Edgemon is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Birmingham.

His research examines how criminal justice interventions, such as arrest and incarceration, affect the stress and health of justice-involved individuals and how human trafficking related violence affects both the mental and physical health of trafficking survivors.

Laura joined the University of Birmingham in October 2017. She previously worked at Durham University and Liverpool John Moores University. Laura’s research interests centre on work with children and young people, particularly in relation to youth crime and justice. She is a member of the Youth Justice Board’s Academic Advisory Panel and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She ...

Anna in a Lecturer in Criminology. Her teaching and research interests are in prison sociology and the collateral impact of imprisonment on families of prisoners. She has researched the impact of long sentences on partners of prisoners in the UK, the experiences of prisoners serving sentences for sex offences in a therapeutic community and the use of video-call technology in prisons. She ...

Angelo Martins Jr is an Assistant Professor in Sociology. He undertakes ethnographic research in the areas of difference, intersectionality, social inequalities and decolonial sociological approaches to contribute to debates on Migration, as well as on ‘Modern Slavery’. 

Angelo has carried out extensive research on how differences of ‘race’, class and gender, rooted ...

Daniel is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminologyat the University of Birmingham. He teaches across the 3 years of the undergraduate programme, as a module convenor for Violence in a Global Context and Crime and Society.  Daniel also supervises a number of final year dissertations, providing advice and guidance on undergraduate research ...

Prof Montgomery arrived at the University of Birmingham in 2017 to take up his current post after twenty years at Oxford University where he was Professor of Psycho-social Intervention. His work is methodologically based in three main areas: Systematic Reviews, Trials (many of them RCTs) and Methods Advances in Complex Interventions. Topically, his work is wide ranging and includes Sleep, Educatio ...

Simon is a Professor in Social Policy and Criminology currently researching aspects of social harm caused by states and corporations, as well as social structures, in particular the harms caused by inequality. 

Dr Evelyn Svingen is an Assistant Professor in Criminology with an interest in the biosocial mechanisms of etiology of crime. Her main research area is within the fields of evolutionary psychology and behavioural economics, in which she uses game theory experiments in order to explain how people cooperate as a group and how it might lead to criminal behaviours. 

She is also interested in ...

Emma is an Associate Professor in Criminology and an AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow (2023-25) working on ‘Institutional Abuse: Reformatory Schools and the use of physical force’. As an historical criminologist, Emma uses a social harm perspective in her work to explore the use of institutions and policy to control marginalised populations. Emma was awarded her PhD ...

Dr Samantha Weston is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham. Her expertise lies within the area of risk prevention and early intervention. Specifically, Samantha’s research focuses on the role of the police within these spaces in ‘managing’, ‘controlling’ and ‘responding to’ what might be otherwise considered already marginalised ...