Dr David Lydon

I previously worked as a lecturer at University of Greenwich and University of East London teaching criminology and policing-related subjects at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

 I currently teach modules including:

• L4 Introduction to Professional Policing
• L4 Criminology and Crime Prevention
• L5 Policing Communities
• L6 Policing Public Order and Crowd Psychology
• L6 Global Challenges.

I also contribute to Post-graduate taught and research degrees including:

• MSc Applied Police Practice
• MSc by Research.

Research areas inc. policing futures, police legitimacy and ethics, epistemology and research methods.

• Lydon, D., and Emanuel, P. (Forthcoming). 'New insights to County Lines drug supply networks: a research note on a study of police experiences of the intersectionality of victimhood and offending'. British Society of Criminology Newsletter, No. 90, Winter 2022. Available at Newsletters – British Society of Criminology (britsoccrim.org) 
• Lydon, D. (2022). 'Future worlds: threats and opportunities for policing and security'. Security Matters, Issue 18, December 2022. Available at Homepage | Security Matters (securitymattersmagazine.com)
• Lydon, D. (2022). Kent Police arms volunteer officers with Taser stun guns. Interview by Kit Bradshaw for ITV Meridian News, 28th September. Available at Kent Police arms volunteer officers with Taser stun guns to ‘protect the public’ | ITV News Meridian.
• Lydon, D. (2022). 'Policing futures: transforming the evidence-based policing paradigm through interdisciplinarity and epistemological anarchism'. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2022.2101648 
• Lydon, D., Hallenberg, K., and Kapageorgiadou, V. (2022). This is Not a Drill: Police Preparedness for Climate Emergency: Summary Report of a Scoping Study. Canterbury Christ Church University. Available at This is not a drill: police preparedness for climate emergency: summary report of a scoping study : Haplo (canterbury.ac.uk) 
• Lydon, D. (2022). 'Policing Local Communities'. In Wood, D., Bradshaw, S., Dickens, T., Parker-Mcleod, J., Simpson, F., and Weaver, G. (eds.). Blackstone's Handbook for Policing Students 2023. 17th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN – 9780192872135. 
• Hallenberg K., Lydon D., and Kapageorgiadou, V. (2022). ‘This is not a drill: police preparedness for climate emergency’, Policing Insight (August). Available at: This is not a drill: Police preparedness for climate emergency - Policing Insight 
• Lydon, D. (2021). 'Theft, Fraud and Related Offences'. In Wood, D., Bradshaw, S., Dickens, T., Parker-Mcleod, J., Simpson, F., and Weaver, G. (eds.). Blackstone's Handbook for Policing Students 2022. 16th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN- 9780192848079. 
• Lydon, D. (2020). 'The construction and shaping of protesters' perceptions of police legitimacy: a thematic approach to police information and intelligence gathering'. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2020.1722665