I am Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law where I research and teach. My research interests are cybercrime, organised crime, policing and intellectual property crime. I have published a wide range of 50+ articles and 12+ books on these subjects and I also have a sustained track record of interdisciplinary funded research in these areas from the EU FP6 & FP7, ESRC, EPSRC, AHRC & other funders, such as the Home Office and DSTL.

I have been a member of various Governmental working groups, such as the Ministerial Working Group on Horizon Planning 2020-25, the Home Office Cybercrime Working Group (looking at issues of policy, costs and harms of crime and technology to society), and the HMIC Digital Crime and Policing working group. I have also been a member of various international working parties which include the UNODC cybercrime expert group. I am an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Higher Teaching Academy. I was a Turing Fellow (of the Alan Turing Insitute) from 2018 to 2021), see my profile).

I (re)joined the University of Leeds in August 2015 from Durham University where I was Professor of Criminology (2010-2015) and Head of the School of Applied Social Sciences (2011-2014). Prior to moving to Durham I worked in the School of Law at the University of Leeds from 1992-2010, during that time I was Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice (2000-2005) and then Head of School (2005-2007).

I am currently conducting a range of interdisciplinary UKRI and EU H2020 funded research into Cybercrime and Cybersecurity and Organised Crime Online.