Professor Stuart Lister

Profile

I joined the University in 2001 as a Research Fellow, before gaining a lectureship in 2004. Prior to this, I was a Research Fellow at the University of Keele and at Durham University. I was promoted to Professor of Policing and Criminal Justice in 2019. Between 2016 and 2020 I was Head of the Graduate School in the Faculty of Social Sciences, responsible for research degrees and postgraduate research strategy. During this time I worked closely with colleagues from across the wider region coordinating and delivering the agenda of the ESRC White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership. I am currently Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation, responsible for leading research strategy across the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Responsibilities

• Pro-Dean Research and Innovation

Research interests

My research interests focus on exploring the arrangement and provision of contemporary policing, inclusive of public and private policing.

My most recent book is an edited collection (with Anthea Hucklesby), Criminal Justice and the Private Sector (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Prior to this, I edited a collection of essays on the accountability and governance of policing (with Mike Rowe), Accountability of Policing (Routledge, 2015). I have authored several papers on police governance in the context of the emergence of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales.

I have completed several studies on plural forms of policing, including the first evaluation of Police Community Support Officers in West Yorkshire in 2005. My research in this area has focused broadly on the diversification of visible patrol in public spaces, the pluralisation of the public police, and the governance of plural networks of policing.

Publications in this area, include Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time economy (with Hobbs, Hadfield and Winlow, 2003), The Extended Policing Family: visible patrols in residential areas (with Crawford, 2004), Plural Policing: the mixed economy of visible security patrols (with Crawford, Blackburn and Burnett 2005).

I recently completed a study of police use of body-worn cameras (with Jose Pina-Sánchez), funded by the N8 Policing Research Partnership. Prior to that, I completed an ESRC funded-study exploring the police-community engagement, as part of a wider Knowledge Exchange partnership project with West Yorkshire Police.

I am currently on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Police Science and Management (2018-) and Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy (2017-). I have previously been co-editor of Criminology and Criminal Justice: An International Journal (2012-2015).

Professional memberships

• British Society of Criminology
• European Society of Criminology
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• British Psychological Society

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for Criminal Justice Studies

Current postgraduate researchers

• Eleanor Abbott
• Rebecca Fox