Ultra-realist researchers and theorists

Emeritus Professor Steve Hall

Criminological theory, neuropsychoanalysis, violence and history, political history, economic history.

Professor Simon Winlow

Social theory, cultural theory, political history, psychoanalysis, masculinity, violence.

Professor Anthony Lloyd

Zemiology, social theory, work and employment, migration.

Dr Thomas Raymen

Zemiology, theory, ethics, crime and corruption.

Dr Justin Kotzé

Theory, zemiology, criminal markets.

Professor Daniel Briggs

Ethnography, criminal markets, zemiology, refugees, migration.

Professor James Treadwell

Ethnography, violence, riots, prisons, research methods.

Professor Tereza Østbø Kuldova

Anthropology, outlaw cultures, criminal markets, surveillance, compliance and corruption.

Dr Anthony Ellis

Psychosocial theory, violence, homicide, weapons, high-harm domestic violence.

Dr Mark Bushell

Zemiology, violence, workplace volence, night-time economy.

Professor Elizabeth Yardley

Homicide, violence and technology, domestic abuse, coercive control, media.

Emeritus Professor David Wilson

Violence, murder and serial murder, prisons, media.

Dr Emma Armstrong

Military studies, violence, zemiology, psychoanalysis.

Dr Adam Lynes

Homicide, serial murder, online crime, visual criminology, organised crime.

Dr Brendan Brookshaw

Policing, ethics, corruption, public service.

Craig Kelly

Violence, illicit markets, deviant leisure, media.

Professor Giorgios Antonopoulos

Transnational organised crime, illicit markets, drugs, online crime.

Dr Nick Gibbs

Zemiology, masculinity, IPEDs, illicit markets, sport and crime.

Dr Jorge Ramiro Pérez Suárez

Cyborg Criminology, theory, mixed methods research, digital ethnography, cybercrime, media and crime

Antonio Silva Esquinas

Anthropology, epistemology, ethnography, ethics, mixed methods research, cyberspace.

Dr Grace Gallacher

Theory, children’s leisure, deviant leisure, consumerism,

Dr David Temple

Criminal justice practice, desistance, hate crime, online harms.

Dr Luke Telford

Left behind places, working-class culture, political history, zemiology.

Dr Oliver Smith

Zemiology, deviant leisure, environmental crime, alcohol and violence, gambling and debt.

Professor Zoe James

Zemiology, hate studies, travellers, policing

Dr Tammy Ayres

Drug markets, prisons, mental health, domestic violence.