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- Member of the Open University's Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative (HER​C).
- Member of the British Society of Criminology (BSC).
​- Researcher  with the University of Strathclyde.
- Published Critical Criminologist. 
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I am interested in the crimes of the powerful elite and how crime and justice systems (locally and globally) are constructed to protect certain interests over others, whilst simultaneously exacerbating harms against already marginalised and vulnerable groups within society.

My work focuses on challenging state-corporate crime, white-collar crime and spans a number of related areas such as the criminalisation of children, homelessness, drug usage (medical cannabis) and immigration.

I am impassioned by criminology and social justice movements and this passion is reflected in my research. In recent work, I have shone a light on the lack of truth, justice and accountability around (ongoing) harms resulting from the Grenfell ‘tragedy’, SNC-Lavalin ‘Affair’ and the Primodos ‘Scandal’. 

In an explicit attempt to move beyond criminology, I draw upon techniques from across the disciplines including a zemiological approach (and more recently a health history lens) to evidence the social, political and economic context (historical and geographical prevalence) in which harms, including those labelled as crimes, are produced and interwoven into society via socio-economic inequality. 

In doing so, my research endevours to provide a fresh approach to the challenges, problems and injustices faced by people in their day-to-day lives, whilst contributing and adding to the body of research within my interdisciplinary areas of study. 
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​2021
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This article was published by: 
​The Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion 23/03/21
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This article can be viewed on:
The Patient Safety Learning 23/03/21

This article was originally published on: 
​The Open University, Research Centre, Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative 20/03/21

​The Open University, Research Centre, HERC Blogs



This article was originally published on: 
​The Open University, Research Centre, Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative 03/02/21

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​This article was published by: 
​The Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative 20/01/21

​This article was originally published on: 
​The Open University, Research Centre 20/01/21

The Open University, Research Centre, HERC Blogs
​2020
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​​​This article was published by: 
​The Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative 30/11/20

This article can be viewed on: ACDHPT (Related follow-up article)  17/11/20

This article can be viewed on: 
The Association For Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests (Primodos.org) 
17/11/20

This article was published by: 
​The Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion 16/11/20

This article can be viewed on:
The Patient Safety Learning 16/11/20

This article was published by:
The British Society of Criminology 11/11/20

This article was originally published on: 
​The Open University, Research Centre 10/11/20
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This article can be viewed on: ACDHPT (Related link article)  17/11/20

This article can be viewed on: The Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare 17/08/20

This article can be viewed on: The Week in Justice 16/08/20
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This article was published by:
The British Society of Criminology 12/08/20

​This article can be viewed on: The Association For Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests 01/08/20

This article was published by The Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion 29/07/20

This article was published by: 
​The Open University, Research Centre  22/07/20
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This article was originally published by: 
​The Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative 21/07/20
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​This article was published by: 
​The Open University, Research Centre  23/06/20

​This article was published by: 
​The Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative 22/06/20

This article was originally published by:
The British Society of Criminology 09/06/20

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2019
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​This article was chosen as a 'What's new feed' by:
I​​nternational Centre for Policing and Security ​17/03/20

This article was published by:
The British Society of Criminology 17/03/20
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​This article was published by:
​The British Society of Criminology 03/12/19

​Signatory of: Open letter to reduce the number of people in detention settings 14/04/20

Statement published by: The Canary @TheCanaryUK 19/08/19

​Signatory of: Open letter to the European Society of Criminology 10/09/19 

​This article was published by: The British Society of Criminology 26/07/19

Signatory of the: End Child Imprisonment Campaign 01/01/19



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​This article was originally published by: The British Society of Criminology 14/06/19
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​This article was published by: The British Society of Criminology 16/04/19
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​This article was chosen as ​an exemplar Criminology Blog for 2018 by: 
​The British Society of Criminology  28/01/19

This article was published by: The Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative 29/10/18

This article was published by: The British Society of Criminology 22/10/18 
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