My History.
I graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in Social and Political Sciences in 2004 and again with a PhD in Criminology in 2017.
From 2004-2020 I worked at the University of Cambridge with Professor of ecological developmental criminology P-O Wikström as research associate and research manager of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), which was specifically designed to test Situational Action Theory (SAT).
From 2025, I am again working on PADS+ at the Centre for Analytic Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. I will be contributing to phase 3 of PADS+ as a Senior Research & Innovation Associate.
I am currently the Managing Editor of the European Journal of Criminology.
I am the Founder and Co-Principal Investigator of SATNAV, a programme of change for schools delivering behaviour change for social betterment.
PADS+ Work.
I conducted the stand-alone 2005 Peterborough Community Survey as part of PADS+, and went on to conduct many fieldwork interviews with the PADS+ participants.
From 2006-2020, as the Research Manager of PADS+, I was responsible for fieldwork staff and the collection, quality and management of PADS+ data, as well contributing to the development and application of the research instruments used and devised by the study.
Responsibilities.
I was also responsible for the analysis and presentation of PADS+ spatial data using GIS, the training of international collaborative and replica study staff, and was jointly responsible for the co-ordination of the I-SAT (international comparison of tests of Situational Action Theory) project.
I supervised and advised various students and visiting researchers who were using PADS+ data and the Situational Action Theory theoretical framework.
Skills.
My 16 years varied work on this multi-method multi-level longitudinal study mean I am experienced in developmental and social ecological research methods and analytical techniques, as well as the operational demands of running a world-class large-scale longitudinal research study.
This long-term work within the team at Cambridge means that I am a key proponent of Situational Action Theory, and have rare intricate knowledge of this complex but extremely powerful theory. A key strength is my ability to be able to see the specific relevance of SAT to a wide range of applications.