Our People: Leading Experts

 

Dr Katie Addinnal is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, she has research expertise in ballistic tool mark evidence. She is also a Member of the Centre for Precision Technologies.

To see her full professional  profile, including publications go to: https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/katie-addinall

 

Professor Rachel Armitage was the founder of SSI and was Director of the Institute between 2014-2018. She is a Professor in Criminology in the Department of Behavioural & Social Sciences in the School of Human and Health Sciences.  She has conducted research on the subject of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) for over 20 years - evaluating the effectiveness of the Secured by Design (SBD) award scheme, investigating the links between housing design and crime risk, exploring the tensions and synergies between security and sustainability and studying international approaches to preventing crime through design. She is internationally renowned in this field.   Rachel’s research on housing design has also focused upon the role of housing in the prevention of domestic abuse (specifically the Sanctuary scheme), and the impact of housing on mental and physical health.  She has also conducted a number of research projects on design in counter terrorism.  Rachel works closely with many agencies to explore the impact of secondary victimisation of online child sexual abuse – particularly IIOC (Indecent Images of Children). Rachel is a trustee of the Marie Collins Foundation and is a founding member of the Indirect Victims of Indecent Images of Children Investigations (IVIIC) National Strategic Group. She is working closely with key agencies to explore policy and practice responses to non-offending partners (NOPs) and children of IIOC offenders.

To see her full professional profile, including publications go to;  https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/rachel-armitage

 

Dr Rosie Campbell OBE is a Research Fellow with SSI working with the Institute Director, SSI steering group and members of SSI from all schools, to develop the work of SSI.  Rosie has moved between academic roles (primarily research focused) and frontline support service provision predominantly in the third sector. She has worked around community safety issues since 1995, having worked with community safety partnerships in various areas of the UK via her research, service provision and policy work, particularly in relation to sex work and child sexual exploitation. She has held research roles on national research projects at Liverpool Hope, Leeds, Loughborough and Leicester Universities.  When employed as Coordinator of Armistead Street and Portside sex work support projects, NHS outreach and health promotion services, she worked with Merseyside Police to introduce the approach of including sex workers in hate crime policy, the first area in the UK to do so. An approach she explored in her PhD at Durham University,  and carried on exploring at a policy level in her ESRC White Rose postdoctoral Fellowship at York.  Her PhD study informs the book ‘Sex work and hate crime’, published by Palgrave in 2021, co authored with Professor Teela Sanders. She also co authored the book ‘Sex Work Now’ (2006) with Professor Maggie O’Neill.

Rosie was a founder member and Chair of the UK Network of Sex Work Projects,  which  became National Ugly Mugs a safety and support charity for sex workers in the UK. Rosie was a third sector expert on the Dept of Health, National Support Team for Sexual Violence. In 2011 she was awarded an OBE for her work with vulnerable women.

Her research interests are in sex work, hate crime, women’s safety, violence against women and girls, participatory action research and sexual violence.

To see her full professional  profile, including publications go to: https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/rosie-campbell

 

Dr Gareth Parkes is a Reader in the Department of Chemical Sciences, School of Applied Sciences and was one of the founders of the Thermal Methods Research Unit. His main research interests are thermal analysis  & thermal processing. He has forensic research interests in monitoring of VOCs of forensic importance using headspace and thermal desorption GC-MS and the analysis of the damage to textiles caused by bladed weapons.

To see his full professional profile, including publications go to: https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/gareth-parkes

 

Dr Simon Parkinson is a Reader in Computer Science in the School of Computing and Engineering. Simon has expertise in cyber-crime, secure & forensic computing and AI. He is currently leading on a research project exploring early identification of indecent images of children and victim identification in Digital Investigations. For further information about this project see Our Projects section.

To see Simons full professional profile, including publications go to: https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/simon-parkinson

 

Professor Paul Thomas is Professor of Youth and Policy and Associate Dean – Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (RIKE) for the School of Education and Professional Development (SEPD). His research focuses mainly on state policies around young people and ethnic/racial community cohesion, and on the prevention of violent extremism.

He has developed his research through a number of past and present funded projects created in collaboration with regional, national and international government bodies and policing organisations, with research findings creating impact by influencing international, national and regional policy and practice. Selected examples of previous and current projects are summarised here.

Past projects

Professor Thomas has previously been:

• Joint Principal Investigator (PI) (with Prof. Michele Grossman of Deakin University, Australia, a Visiting Professor at SEPD) on the CREST-funded ‘Community Reporting Thresholds’ project which investigated the barriers community members, especially young adults, face in sharing concerns about someone close to them becoming involved in extremism. This study directly informed the National Counter-Terrorism Police’s ‘Act Early’ campaign: https://actearly.uk/ . This research has since been replicated and developed through research studies in the USA (funded by the National Institute of Justice) and Canada (funded by Public Safety Canada) for which in both cases, Paul and Professor Grossman were joint-PIs.
• Joint PI on the first national study investigating the implementation of the Prevent Duty in English schools and colleges.

He is currently:

• Co-PI on a study with Deakin University around changing processes of terrorist recruitment.
• Co-PI on a research project around community cohesion and belonging in Batley and Spen, West Yorkshire, with the Jo Cox Foundation.

Paul is a professionally qualified youth and community worker and prior to entering academia worked as a regional manager for a national voluntary youth work organisation and as a regional youth policy and campaigns officer for the government’s Commission for Racial Equality.

To see his full professional  profile, including publications go to:    https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/paul-thomas

Our Members:

Howard Atkin (Human & Health Sciences)

Paul Bills (Computing & Engineering)

Liam Blunt (Computing & Engineering)

Phil Brown (Human & Health Sciences)

Ashley Cartwright (Human & Health Sciences)

Danis Ignantis (Human & Health Sciences)

Maria Ioannou (Human & Health Sciences)

John Lever (Business)                         

Shamin Miah (Education)                               

Kalina Michalakopoulou (Business)    

Leanne Monchuck (Human & Health Sciences)

Eilidh Noyes (Human and Health Sciences)

Paul Ogden (Human & Health Sciences)

David Peebles (Human & Health Sciences)           

Barry Percy-Smith (Human & Health Sciences)

Adrian Pitts (Arts & Humanities)

Ben Raikes (Human and Health Sciences)

Sarah Reel (Human & Health Sciences)

Carla Reeves (Human & Health Sciences)

Michelle Rogerson (Human & Health Sciences)  

Peter Sanderson (Education)                                     

Kathryn Sharratt (Human & Health Sciences)

Alan Shepard (Human and Health Sciences)

Padim Simkhada (Human & Health Sciences)

Nicola Stenberg (business School)

John Synott (Human & Health Sciences)

Camilo Tamayo Gomez (Human & Health Sciences)

Andrea Tara-Chand (Human & Health Sciences)

Kalliopi Tzani-pepelsai (Human & Health Sciences)

Kate Wood (Human & Health Sciences)

Liam Curran (Human & Health Sciences)

Matthew Snell (Business School)

Natalie-Louise Gorton (Human & Health Sciences)

Julia Sloth Neilson (Law School)

Grianne McMahon (Human & Health Sciences)

Lindsey Brooks

Salwa Podvorica

Jill Palmer

Emma Shiel

Amrana Latif

Caitlain Heywood

Sally Crossland

 

SSI has an Advisory group of external community safety and security experts. These include

• (Chair) John Parkinson OBE, Executive Managing Director, InterSec Consultancy Ltd.
• Dr Ivar Fahsing, Detective Chief Superintendent with Norwegian Police University College, Oslo.
• Carolyn Lovell, Research and Development Manager, NPCC Forensic Capability Network.
• Professor Gloria Laycock OBE, Jill Dando Institute, University College London.
• Professor Layla Skinns, Deputy Director of Research for KEI, Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield.
• Dr Rick Brown, Deputy Director, Australian Institute for Criminology, Australia.
• Dr Peter Neyroud, Associate Professor in Evidence-based Policing and Director of the Police Executive Programme, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
• Lauren Poultney, Chief Constable, South Yorkshire Police.
• Tom Wheatley, Governor HMP Wakefield.
• Professor Ken Pease OBE, Emirutus Professor at UCL, Visiting University Professor at University of Huddersfield and University of Chester.
• Professor Layla Skinns, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield
• Professor Nick Tilley, Professor of Sociology, Nottingham Trent University and Visiting Professor, Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London

SSI has a Local Practitioners Advisory Group, reflecting the work SSI does to support community safety, security and crime prevention in the Yorkshire Region in which our university is located.

• Tom Wheatley, Governor HMP Wakefield
• Paul Money, Chief Officer, Safer Leeds
• Lee Hamilton, Safer Kirklees Manager
• Jim Griffiths, Chief Supt Kirklees (WYP)
• Chloe Froggett, Knowledge Hub Manager, WY Violence Reduction Unit
• Daniel Yates, Deputy Head of Intelligence, Counter Terrorism Policing North East
• Fiona Gaffney, Detective Superintendent, Serious and Organised Crime Unit, WYP

Prof. Alexandros Nikitas, a world's top 2% researcher for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 according to the Stanford/Elsevier ranking list (c-score based), is a Professor in Sustainable Transport Futures for Huddersfield Business School at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the Founding Director of the Future Mobility Lab, a new sustainable transport and smart mobility research initiative. He was the Deputy Director of the School’s Behavioural Research Centre and partner of the University’s European Structural and Investment Funds project LCR LEP Supply Chain. He submitted a flagship 4* REF Impact Case for his School in the REF 2021 exercise dealing with Active Transportation in Greece and beyond. Prof. Nikitas is a key figure in the Transport and Logistics Suite degree provision in all study levels.

Prof. Nikitas is the Chair of the Executive Commitee of UTSG (Universities' Transport Study Group) with a tenure between 2022 and 2025. Prof. Nikitas has the great honour to lead the premier transport teaching and research group in the UK and Ireland including 60 academic institution members such as Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Imperial, Loughborough, TCD, Leeds and Southampton to name a few. The correspondence of UTSG is international and connects thousands of transport experts daily through its e-mail list.

Prof. Nikitas is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport & Health, the top journal that combines transport with health and wellbeing principles. He is also in the Editorial Boards of three highly reputable Elsevier Journals 'Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice', 'Research in Transportation Business & Management' and 'Case Studies on Transport Policy'. He has also organised and co-organised national and international conferences and conference sessions many times.

Prof. Nikitas has produced more than 130 papers and conference outputs in his career thus far. He is conducting research regarding the societal importance of sustainable mobility and autonomous, connected, shared and digitised transport. He is also the Academic Adviser of the West Midlands Combined Authority in future mobility and travel behaviour change and leads a pioneering research programme on sustainable mobility and mobility hubs funded by Kirklees Council that intends to improve significantly transport provision in the town of Huddersfield.

To see his full professional profile including publications go to: https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/alexandros-nikitas