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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Professionals and Professionalism in International Criminal Justice		1 July 2023	1 December 2029
The elephant in the room: assessing money laundering risks in the UK construction industry		1 October 2022	31 December 2027
ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 May 2022	30 April 2027
GreenAWARE: Greenspace Access, Wellbeing, and Resident Equality	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 June 2024	31 January 2026
Funding the UK criminal justice system since 1850: a scoping and pilot study		1 October 2024	30 September 2025
Preventing and Disrupting County Lines 'Cuckooing’ Victimisation		1 April 2022	31 July 2025
Policing and community resilience in the context of climate change	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 June 2024	31 May 2025

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Investigating Unexpected Death: Values and Attitudes in Coronial Autopsies	BA / Leverhulme Small Grants	1 April 2019	1 October 2024
IcARUS: Innovative Approaches to Urban Security	EU Horizon 2020	1 September 2020	31 August 2024
A Professional Register for Probation Practitioners: Opportunities and Challenges	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	16 October 2023	30 June 2024
Domestic Abuse Service Providers and their Stories	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 May 2023	30 April 2024
Understanding the geospatial and contextual patterns of rural domestic abuse: an exploratory study		1 September 2021	1 October 2023
Fostering safer parks for women and girls in West Yorkshire and beyond through multi-agency collaboration, knowledge exchange and the co-design of research-informed guidance		1 September 2022	31 August 2023
Safer Parks for Women and Girls		1 January 2022	31 March 2023
Convenient constructs: How chief police officers in England and Wales understand the right to exercise power.	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 October 2019	31 March 2022
Reducing the unanticipated crime harms of Covid-19 policies	UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)	10 June 2020	9 December 2021
Legal Cultures and New Regional Policies towards Forced Migrants		1 December 2020	30 November 2021
Transitions through university: Exploring expectations and motivations of undergraduate students	Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence	1 September 2020	31 August 2021
Turing Fellow - Dr Birks	Alan Turing Institute	1 October 2018	1 October 2020
Turing Fellow - Professor Wall	Alan Turing Institute	1 October 2018	1 October 2020
'Lurking' and 'loitering': Historic Approaches to Policing Suspicious Behaviour in Britain and their Contemporary Resonances	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 October 2019	30 September 2020
Tracking Children in their Best Interests: electronic monitoring in three European juvenile justice systems (TCBI)	European Commission	1 July 2018	30 June 2020
EMPHASIS - EconoMical, PsycHologicAl and Societal Impact of RanSomware [Ransomware and Cybercrimes of Extortion]	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) / Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 April 2017	31 December 2019
Understanding Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks TAKEDOWN	European Commission	1 September 2016	1 September 2019
The Leeds Parks Fund: Developing a model for charitable giving to parks	Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Nesta	1 August 2018	30 June 2019
Tackling Selection Bias in Sentencing Data Analysis	National Centre for Research Methods (ESRC)	1 October 2017	31 December 2018
TNOC Transnational Organised Crime in the 21st Century	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 October 2017	1 October 2018
Policing Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies	N8 PRG Catalyst Fund	1 June 2016	1 August 2017