Research projects

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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
Training park staff and volunteers to increase women’s safety in the UK’s parks and green spaces		21 October 2024	20 October 2025
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
Utilising open data to enhance park safety for women and girls in Bradford		1 October 2024	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