Professional Activities
Expert Reference Groups:-
• 2021: Expert Advisor to International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children and Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Risk Assessment in Missing Person investigations
• 2018 to present: Academic Expert for the National Missing Person Expert Reference Group. This group is made up of the various agencies involved in missing (e.g. Department of Education, Social Care and Local Authorities, NHS England, Missing People Charity, Children’s Society, College of Policing, Fostering Network). Attendees provide updates to the National Police Chiefs Council lead for missing persons ACC Catherine Hankinson, who chairs the meeting
• 2017-2020: One of three UK academics to sit on the Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) uplift Expert Reference Group (ERG; 2017-2020).
• 2015: Sub-panel member for Home Office on Community-based Interventions for Indecent Image Offenders.
Membership of professional bodies:-
British Psychology Society (BPS), Division of Forensic Psychology, Division of Academics, Researchers & Teachers in Psychology, Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section
N8 Policing Research Partnership (since 2014)
Better Policing Collaborative (since 2014)
VITAE Researcher Development (since 2016)
Member of Society of Evidence Based Policing (since 2017)
Associate of Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing (University of Birmingham) (since 2017)
Better Evaluation Society (since 2020)