About
I joined the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place in 2024 as a Policy Analyst, co-sponsored by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. My research is interdisciplinary, and focuses - though not exclusively - on research areas around crime, policing, and the wider justice system, both contemporary and historical.
My current work involves collaborative research undertaken with partners such as the LCRCA and Liverpool City Council, concerning responses to UK Government publications such as the Industrial Strategy, as well as crime and justice system research, particularly on the ongoing difficulties concerning the growth of digital forensic evidence in the UK justice system.
Before joining the Heseltine Institute, I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield's School of History, which focused on how emergent technologies - specifically railways in the nineteenth century - changed popular perceptions of and responses to crime. I also worked for fifteen months at the Home Office's Crime and Policing Research Unit through an extended UKRI Policy Internship during my PhD, and subsequently worked on projects at the University of Northumbria and the University of Birmingham on police use of pre-charge bail and the UK justice system's ability to cope with the rise in digital forensic evidence.