Meet our members

Discover more about our researchers and their interests.

Academic staff

  • Dr Phillip Brooker (Co-Director, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) - Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; the philosophy and sociology of science/knowledge; science and technology studies; digital/creative social research methods. 
  • Dr Firat Cengiz (Co-Director, Liverpool Law School) - The intersection of law, political science, and economics.
  • Dr Charlotte Branchu (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) - Sociology of the body, culture, and gender.
  • Professor Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou (Liverpool Law School) - European human rights law; administration of international justice; comparative law. 
  • Professor Barry Godfrey (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) - Longitudinal studies of crime and sentencing; how individual and structural factors can affect desistence from crime; comparative international studies of offending and sentencing; court culture and practice; the history of Liverpool; and convicts in America and Australia.
  • Jessica Hodgson (Liverpool Law School) - Law of contract.
  • Dr Antoinette Huber (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) - Cybercrime, sexual violence, gender, victimology, feminism, extremist groups online, online abuse, digital criminology. 
  • Dr Sabine Jacques (Liverpool Law School) - The balance between freedom of expression and intellectual property rights; promoting cultural diversity in creative industries through copyright; algorithmic enforcement of intellectual property law.
  • Dr Andreas Karapatakis (Liverpool Law School) - Banking and technology; the emergence of central bank digital currencies; the regulatory frameworks surrounding blockchain technology; the implications of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations and broader crime prevention strategies.
  • Dr Andrew Kirton (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) - Digital culture and society.
  • Professor Michael Mair (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) - Politics; the state and governmental practice, particularly their changing contemporary forms and attendant problems of accountability.
  • Jeremy Marshall (Liverpool Law School) - The way in which legal processes deliver (or fail to deliver) justice.
  • Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas (Liverpool Law School) - The development of and intersection between European and Global Law and their impact on human rights, justice, and the rule of law. 
  • Kate Murray (University of Liverpool Library) - Law, sociology, social policy, criminology. 
  • Dr Gina Potarca (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) - Society, sociology of gender. 
  • Joseph Savirimuthu (Liverpool Law School) - Legal and ethical issues relating to autonomous systems, data, and personal information policy.
  • Dr Sujitha Subramanian (Liverpool Law School) - Intellectual property and right to freedom of speech; intellectual property and public interest; intellectual property and cultural heritage; intellectual property and technology. 
  • Dr Nicole Vitellone (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) - Sociology of harm reduction policies and practices. 

Honorary members

  • Dr Matthew Shillito (University of Lancaster) - Non-profit organisations, anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, Financial Action Task Force, digital currencies, non-traditional payment methods; de-risking, financial inclusion.

Postgraduate researchers 

  • Phuong Ngo - 
  • Clementina Salvi - European criminal law and digital justice. 
  • Franco Alejandro Veloso Castillo - The intersection between competition, consumer, and data protection law. 
  • Francesco Florimonte - Criminal law.
  • Elin Williams - Regulating cryptocurrency-enabled money laundering.
  • Ammar Zafar - Financial regulation, economic law, investment law, competition law, banking law, intellectual property, technology law (blockchain, cloud computing, AI, data privacy). 
  • Yichen Zhang - Intellectual property law and technology. 

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