Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- The Big Society and Volunteering: Janus-faced Social Policy, with Louise Hardwick, by Invitation (VSSN, 2012)
- The 'Broken Society' and the uneven geographies of anti-welfarism (with G Mooney & S Neal, OU), by Invitation (RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011, 2011)
- The ‘Broken Society’ & anti-Welfarism: A Moral Panic? (with G. Mooney & S. Neal), by Invitation (Brunel University, London, 2010)
- 'Poverty porn', tutelage and 'advanced marginality' (with Dr Gerry Mooney), by Invitation (University of Brighton, 2010)
- Public Participation, Jurors and Citizenship (with Prof R. Matthews), by Invitation (Institute of Advanced Studies, Glasgow, 2010)
- Panel on (Un)Making sustainable cities and populations: planning, discipline and social policy, by Invitation (RGS - IBG International Conference Session Organisers, 2008)
- Urban Regeneration, Class and Crime, by Invitation (London South Bank University, 2008)
- Jurors and the Question of Citizenship , by Invitation (Centre for Criminal Justice, University of Leeds, 2005)
- Jurors in Criminal Trials: Citizenship and Participation, by Invitation (Department of Criminology, Keele University, 2005)
- The Policing of Public Space: Community Safety and Social Exclusion, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (University of Lincoln , 2005)
- Urban regeneration, crime and social control , Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, 2005)
- Urban Regeneration and Crime Control, by Invitation (Southbank University , 2005)
- Appointment By Lot: The Experience of Jury Selection (with Prof R. Matthews), by Invitation (Public Administration Select Committee, UK Government, 2004)
Editorships
- Safer Communities: A journal of practice, opinion, policy and research (Editorial advisory board , 2002 - present)
Examination Roles
- University of Northumbria, MA (PGT, 2006)
- University of Northumbria, BA (UG, 2006)
- University of Northumbria, BA (UG, 2006)
- University of Plymouth, BA (UG, 2005)
- University of Northumbria, BA (UG, 2005)
- University of Northumbria, MA (PGT, 2005)
- University of Plymouth, BA (UG, 2004)
- University of Northumbria, MA (PGT, 2004)
- University of Northumbria, BA (UG, 2004)
- University of Northumbria, MA (PGT, 2003)
- University of Northumbria, BA (UG, 2003)
- University of Plymouth, BA (UG, 2003)
- Nottingham Trent University, BA (UG, 2002)
Professional Body Memberships
- British Society of Criminology (Prizes Committee Member, 2005 - 2011)
- British Society of Criminology (Member, 1993 - present)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- Chair of the School Academic Quality and Standards Committee
- Lead on teaching quality/quality assurance
- Member of BSC Prizes Committee.
- BSC North West Regional Group committee member.