Main Members

Director

Professor Rachel Armitage

Professor of Criminology, Designing out crime, Situational crime prevention, Terrorism, CCTV and surveillance

Deputy Directors

Professor Liam Blunt
Professor of Metrology
Material technology
Surface metrology
Forensic ballistics

Dr Stefano Vanin
Senior Lecturer
Reader in Forensic Biology
Forensic entomology
PMI of burned remains

Associate Directors

Professor Paul Thomas
Professor of Youth and Policy
Youth and community work
Multiculturalism and racism
Prevention of extremism and counter terrorism (PREVENT)

Professor Dr Simon Parkinson
Lecturer
Secure and Forensic Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Crime

Dr Anna William
Principal Enterprise Fellow
Forensic Anthropology / taphonomy
Body deposition and psychology
Forensic science
Trauma analysis

Dr Maria Ioannou
Senior Lecturer
Forensic and clinical psychology
Reducing/preventing crime
Offender profiling

Steering Group

Dr Jason Roach
Reader in Crime and Policing
Criminal investigative practice
Violent crime and offenders
Self-selection policing

Dr Paul Bills
Senior Lecturer
Automotive and mechanical engineering
Forensic analysis
Arms

Dr Erica Gold
Senior Lecturer
Forensic linguistics
Forensic phonetics
Methodologies for analysing and presenting evidence (bayesian)

Dr Yufang Ho
Research Fellow
Corpus linguistics
Operationalising world text theory
Computer-based visualisations of language data in forensic case reports

Professor Pete Sanderson
Dean of School, Education and Professional Development
Community perceptions of community cohesion
Social justice
Legal aid