Dr Robert Lee joined Arden University in 2023 and is a senior lecturer in Criminology within the School of Criminal Justice. He completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Leeds where he focussed on the social productivity and function of anonymity and the ways in which expanding surveillance technologies and practices are eroding the capacity to be anonymous in the 21st century. His research and subject knowledge is interdisciplinary in nature, located within and across Surveillance Studies and Digital Sociology with a wider interest in the social theory of Zygmunt Bauman.

Dr. Mark Horsley joined Arden University in 2023 as a Senior Lecturer. He is part of the school management team for criminal justice and teaches on the criminology programme at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Mark has conducted research on financial markets, debt-based economies, legal/illegal forms of consumer finance, use of consumer finance for illegal purposes and on a few different aspects of criminological theory. He is the author of The Dark Side of Prosperity, a book about the consequences of mass indebtedness in the aftermath of the 2008/9 financial crisis.

Dr. Cristiana Cardoso is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Programme Caretaker at Arden University. She holds a BA (Hons), MA and PhD in Criminology, a PGCert in Learning and Teaching and a PGCert in Research Practice. Cristiana is a Fellow of the Advance HE and has accrued vast experience in the higher education industry through designing and leading several criminology-related modules and programmes. She also manages various projects and liaises closely with external organisations to develop applied learning opportunities for students during their studies and after they graduate.

Dr. Jane Donoghue is a senior lecturer in Criminology at Arden University. Her research is multi-disciplinary in nature, with a particular focus on criminal justice policy and practice, both nationally and internationally. Jane has published widely on criminal justice responses to offending and has conducted research on a range of different topics, including virtual courts and sentencing, anti-social behaviour, and youth justice. She currently specialises in the evolution of digital criminal justice praxis, and its consequences and future implications for systems of justice globally.

Dr. Shannon DeBlasio is one of the Senior Lecturers within the School of Criminal Justice at Arden University. She holds a BSc in Psychology (first class) an MSc in Investigative Psychology (with distinction), and a PhD which falls within the practice of Forensic Psychology. Her key research interests are within the experience of crime, namely ‘The Criminal Narrative Experience’, which explores the role that emotions and narratives play during the commission of an offence.

Claire Eggleton started her academic journey later in life and completed all her academic qualifications using distance learning methods with the Open University, Oxford Brookes and the University of Portsmouth. Her interest in criminology started during her 20-year career with Wiltshire Police, serving as a special constable and then specialising in crime prevention, designing out crime and community safety.

Sophie is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist and has been working in Higher Education for over 10 years, both in professional services and academia. Sophie’s main area of interest is Occupational Psychology, with her PhD exploring the sources of and reactions to work frustration, testing multiple models using mixed methodology.