Staff profile
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Job title: Director of Criminal Justice Practice
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Dept: Law and Criminal Justice Studies
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Tel: 01227 782316
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Campus: Canterbury

QUALIFICATIONS:
PhD ('Maps on Surfaces with Boundary', Reference: 34-4645), University of Southampton, (1984).
BSc (Hons) Mathematics (First Class), University of Southampton, (1979).
Certificate in Education (FE) (Distinction), Thames Polytechnic, (1988).
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:
Digital Crime, Modelling Crime Events, Computing Forensic Investigation, Investigative Science and Criminality Strategies (with the Police Academy of the Netherlands).
DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Director of Criminal Justice Practice
RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Publications
'Foundation of the theory of maps on surfaces with boundary', (1985) Quart. J. Math. Oxford (2) 36.
'Deconstructing Dearing 2' (1996) Debating Education.
Research conducted for Kent Police on 'Stop and Search' data for Kent and Medway, (2003) (unpublished submission to Kent Police).
Chapter 8, 'Resources for Teaching and Learning' (1st edition, 1999; 2nd edition, 2003; 3rd edition, 2007) in Teaching and Training in Post-Compulsory Education, OUP.
Paper for CEPOL (the European Police College, an Agency of the EU) on high tech crime training in the EU, (2004).
'Validation and Quality Assurance of Foundation Degrees – a Case Study of a Foundation Degree in Policing' (2005) pp. 48-53 Journal of Foundation Degree Forward, Issue 5.
'Cybercrime Investigation - developing an international training programme for the future, Final Report' (with Nigel Jones), NSLEC Centre for High Tech Crime Training, (2005).
Editor of, and contributor to 'Blackstone's Student Police Officer Handbook' published by Oxford University Press, (October 2006).
'Information Technology and the Criminal Justice System' (2006) book review for Criminology & Criminal Justice, Vol. 6, No. 1.
Editor of, and contributor to 'Blackstone's Student Police Officer Handbook' (2nd edition) published by Oxford University Press, (December 2007).
Contributor to the 'PCSO Handbook' published by Oxford University Press (November 2007).
•Contributed three entries (between 500 and 2000 words) to the Dictionary of Policing for Willan Publishers edited by Tim Newburn and Peter Neyroud, (December 2008).
Revelation and discretion with Murphy, R. Accepted for publication in January (2008) in 'Covert Policing Review', McKay Law publishers.
Joint author (with Sir David Phillips and Dr Bryn Caless) of Intelligence and its Application to Contemporary Policing in 'Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice', Oxford University Press, January (2008).
Editor of, and contributor to 'Blackstone's Student Police Officer Handbook 2009' published by Oxford University Press (November 2008).
Editor of and contributor to, 'Investigating Digital Crime' by John Wiley & Sons (2008).
Contributor to 'Understanding Criminal Investigation (forthcoming, 2009) published by John Wiley & Sons.
Editor of, and contributor to 'Blackstone's Student Police Officer Workbook' (forthcoming, 20009).
Editor of, and contributor to 'Blackstone's Student Police Officer Handbook 2010' (forthcoming, 2009).
Research and other Contracts
Agis (EC) funding (£40,000) for evaluation of cybercrime investigator training, 2004-2007.
Leonardo da Vinci (EC) funding (£8,000) for curriculum advice for a 'European Diploma in Policing', 2007.
Analysis of geodemographic student progression data for DfES/DIUS (£18,990), 2008.
Evaluation of Dispersal Area for Thanet District Council (£7,000), 2009.
Production of 'Wiki' articles for National Policing Improvement Agency (£9,000), 2009.
Consultancies
Consultant on Access Courses, Polytechnic of the South Bank (ACES), (1988).
Evaluation of the new model for police probationary training for the Royal Ulster Constabulary, (1999).
Evaluation of Kent Social Services Domestic Violence strategy, (2003).
Consultant on the mathematics of body fall from height (Abu Dhabi Police Service), (2003).
Consultation on 'Core Investigative Doctrine' for the National Centre for Policing Excellence, (2004).
Evaluation of High Tech Crime Investigation training (for NSLEC, UK), (2003-2006).
International member and Chair of the panel evaluating Estonian higher education provision in Policing, Prisons and Legal Services, (2005).
Evaluation of European High Tech Crime Investigation training (for An Garda Siochana, Ireland), (2006-2007).
International member and Chair of the panel evaluating Estonian higher education provision in Policing, Prisons and Legal Services, (2009).
Expert evidence:
Coroner's court, Tonbridge Wells in the case of a fatal fall from height of a UK national in northern Iraq, (2005).
Dorset Police, in the case of probability calculations of a partial DNA profile of an individual accused of rape, (2006).
Evidence to the Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatieorganisatie (NVAO) on compatibility of accreditation systems in police training and education, (2007).Consultant on Access Courses, Polytechnic of the South Bank (ACES), (1988). OTHER INTERESTS
Mathematical modelling of fatal falls from height.
Address: Room Pcf07, Dept. of Law and Criminal Justice Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, CT1 1QU.
Telephone: 01227 767700 x 2316
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