Dr. Emma Winlow obtained her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Criminology and Crime & Justice from the University of Chester and completed her PhD at the University of Gloucestershire. A public criminologist, Emma has extensive leadership and management experience in higher education and is passionate about accessibility, inclusion, and employability in teaching and learning. She established the School of Criminal Justice with these practices in mind. Emma is also a member of the British Society of Criminology and the British Society of Criminology's Teaching and Learning Network.

Dr. Kimberley Marsh graduated with her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2016, after completing her MRes in Criminology and Socio - Legal Studies (University of Manchester), MSc in Criminology and Criminal Psychology (University of Portsmouth) and BSc Sociology (University of Surrey) . She has gained a wealth of experience in teaching and academic leadership from her initial role as an Associate Lecturer at The University of Manchester to her role as Deputy Head of School at Arden University. In addition, she has carried out government-funded research, looking into improving the life chances of looked after children and care leavers in the UK. Kimberley's research interests focus on attachment, parenting styles, and behavioural responses. 

Saabirah Osman is a Programme Lead within the School of Criminal Justice. She obtained her BA and MA degrees at Birmingham City University and is currently completing her PhD at Liverpool John Moores University. Her PhD seeks to explore and examine the services provided to UK migrants who are survivors of Sexual Violence. Through this research she hopes to widen accessibility and availability of appropriate support to this population. Saabirah’s research background predominately focuses on sex offenders, specifically on the successful reintegration and management once released into the community. In addition to this Saabirah has published various book chapters that have explored and discussed various issues including: sexual abuse, Intersectional Studies in prisons research and, addiction and online gambling. Prior to pursing her career within academia, Saabirah worked with the Birmingham Youth Offending Services.

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. Claire has recently embarked on her PHD journey with the University of Huddersfield and the focus of her research will relate to designing crime and situational crime prevention methodology.

Claire describes herself as a ‘pracademic’ and sees her extensive practical experience as an essential element of her academic achievement and more importantly her teaching practice. She is a member of the British Society of Criminology and working towards fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. 

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. In addition, Shannon has spent time researching the impact of individual differences such as personality, psychopathy, and criminal thinking on crime engagement. 

Shannon is a keen advocate for evidence-based interventions and works closely with private sector prisons to promote effective practice. Shannon’s research interests are largely influenced by the time she spent working within the custodial setting. Combined, Shannon has over nine years’ experience working with men who have committed violent and sexual crimes. She has undertaken roles such as programmes facilitator, treatment manager, and substance misuse practitioner, which have ultimately shaped her attitude towards offending and rehabilitation. 

Aside from her teaching and practitioner experience, Shannon is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Shannon is the Co-ordinator for Student Employability and Professional Development (SEPD) within the school and liaises closely with external agencies to develop opportunities during study as well as post-graduation. 

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. 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. Her PhD focused on ways to enhance community-based services for people who have a sexual attraction to minors, as well as those who are at risk of and/or have perpetrated sexual abuse against children. Cristiana has also conducted research on public perceptions of people who commit crimes, the assessment of women who committed sexual offences, the role of vehicle repair workshops in car insurance fraud, and evaluated services aimed at reducing the impact of imprisonment and improving reintegration in the community. Prior to pursing her career within academia, Cristiana led a number of pro-social extracurricular activities for children and young people in care (or with unstable family arrangements) who were at risk or had already committed crimes.

Dr. Sam Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology within the School of Criminal Justice. She holds a PhD in criminology from Teesside University and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Sam currently leads the Student Employability and Professional Development (SEPD) within the school and works closely with external agencies to provide students with additional opportunities during their studies. Sam is an ethnographic researcher, which means she immerses herself into different areas and populations to understand the complexity of everyday life and the reasons why so many people are willing to self-harm and risk harm to others. She works within the school of ultra-realist criminology and is particularly interested in understanding why some individuals and groups are willing to self-harm and risk harm to others and their environments in the pursuit of ‘ideal perfection’. To date, her research has focused upon the individual and social harms that emerge from using and supplying counterfeit and illicit drugs in late-capitalism, exploring the nexus between the macro socio-economic structures and the manifestations in the micro-context of day-to-day life. Sam’s current research interests are critical and ultra-realist criminology, drug markets, illicit markets, organised crime, traditional and virtual ethnography, consumer culture, political economy and harm.

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. In addition to other works on credit and debt, Mark also co-edited Crime, Harm and Consumerism.

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. His current research interests centre on algorithmic harms, facial recognition technologies, and public anonymity. Robert has previously worked within Higher Education as a programme lead and lecturer in Sociology, and as a senior researcher in digital policies for a European Consultancy during which he led project teams and worked on policy projects for a range of clients at both the EU and UK level.

Christina completed her PhD conducting the first UK and European study exploring how youth disengage from violent youth street gangs.  Christina has over 20 years’ experience working primarily with NGO’s. she is co-founder and former Executive Chair of the Charity Mothers Against Violence, established in 1999 to support victims and their families of homicide and other serious violent crimes.  As Executive Chair she was responsible for the operational running of the charity and writing recommendations for the charity to take forward to the Home Office round table meetings for gun and knife crime. She has 10 years’ experience as a front-line worker in high risk muti agency child protection working alongside statutory agencies with families and care leavers experiencing, gang membership, child trafficking and child sexual exploitation. More recently as a Homelessness Criminal Justice Outreach Officer Christina was responsible for the management of young adults aged 16-25 years to facilitate the non-breach of community probation orders. Christina is recognised for her ability to engage with, support, advocate and research ‘hard to reach groups’. She was lead researcher on the joint commissioned Manchester City Council Crime & Disorder Team, Greater Manchester Police and Victim Support project into the experiences of victims of reported and non-reported hate crime and was lead interviewer on the psychological Challenges for Parent-Focused Programmes for Families of Gang-Involved Young People. A report commissioned by the Manchester City Council Safeguarding Partnership.  Her current research interests are desistance from offending and disengagement from gangs and organised crime networks, the experiences of those working in criminal justice with peer experience, pedagogical approaches to the teaching of Criminology and perspectives of sexual assault at urban street festivals. 

Richard embarked on his academic journey at Monash University in South Africa, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology (with Honours) and International Studies. His exceptional performance in his Honours Degree and thesis earned him the Certificate of Excellence in 2011. His thesis was a mixed methods research endeavor entitled “Exploring the philosophical values of Ubuntu, as a mechanism of healing and reconciliation, in a Post-Apartheid South African Township”. Richard went on to receive a Graduate Assistantship at Illinois State University, where he completed his Master of Science degree and received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in 2014. His master’s thesis focused on qualitative research and was titled “Death and Destruction: Insight into the Rhino Poaching Epidemic in South Africa”.

Richard has presented his research findings from his Honours, Masters, and other publications at various international criminology and victimology conferences. After serving as Deputy Director of Research for the Gauteng Department of Community Safety, a government department in South Africa, he is now a Lecturer of Criminology at Arden University. His research interests within criminology include evidence-based research & policing, green criminology, victimology, restorative justice, and crime prevention. Currently, Richard's research interests center around green victimology, wildlife crime, and the illegal wildlife trade.

Dr. Saeb El Kasm is a Lecturer in Criminology at Arden University’s School of Criminal Justice and leads the Academic Personal Tutor (APT) scheme which provides students with active academic support and guidance. His research explores the challenges and possibilities of digital technology as a medium for fighting corruption, upholding human rights, resisting state crime and ‘unmasking the crimes of the powerful.’ 

Prior to Arden, Saeb taught a broad range of criminology courses at Birkbeck, University of London and served as a researcher at the International State Crime Initiative. He also consulted for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, Austria on issues ranging from corruption and economic crime to counter terrorism.

Saeb holds a PhD in Criminology and Law from Queen Mary, University of London and law degrees from the University of Vienna Law School (LL.M. – Public International Law) in Vienna, Austria and Case Western Law School (J.D. – Juris Doctorate) in Cleveland, Ohio. Saeb earned a degree in Government (B.A. – Bachelor of Arts) with distinction from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.

Saeb has also had extensive training in international human rights, conflict resolution, multilateral governance, diplomacy and negotiation at Oxford University and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Darren Woodward completed his PhD in Criminology in 2018. It was a qualitative research project that examined the community experiences of men who had been convicted of child sex offences. He has worked at The University Centre Grimsby where he was a Programme Leader for criminology, and Coventry University (Scarborough Campus) where he taught on the Professional Policing (pre-join) programme, before joining Arden’s School of Criminal Justice in May 2022. Darren is also an ex-prison officer, having served for just under 17 years. He worked initially at the young offenders institute, HMPYOI Glen Parva in Leicester for 3 years, and spent the remainder of his service at HMP Hull. His current teaching and research interests centre around penology, criminal justice and the use of practitioners who also teach in Higher Education. He is a member of the Prison Research Network, The Pracademic Network, and is a member of the editorial team for the Prison Service Journal.

Dr. David Temple is a Lecturer in Criminology within the School of Criminal Justice.  joined Arden University as a lecturer in Criminology after previously working at as a research associate at Teesside University and lecturer at Leeds Trinity University. His previous research experience includes working with older male offenders in their desistance attempts within a probation setting, which informed his doctoral research. David holds a PhD in criminology from Teesside University and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. David was also lead researcher on the Challenging Youth Racism project, a collaborative project with HumanKind, funded by the Big Lottery, aimed at addressing youth racism across North East England. This practical research experience has informed his teaching on a range of criminology, sociology and policing modules. His areas of academic interest include: Ultra Realism, Critical Criminology, Criminal Justice Practice, Desistance, Hate Crime and Online Harms. 

Dr. David Honeywell is a lecturer in criminology at Arden University. He is also currently a co-Investigator for large scale study funded by the NHIR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) working on the PROSPECT programme (Prevention of suicide behaviour in prison: enhancing access to therapy).

David began his academic career in 2013 at the University of York where he worked as an Associate Criminology Lecturer alongside studying his PhD about ex-prisoners and the transformation of self through higher education. His PhD was inspired by his own personal journey as an ex- prisoner who escaped a dysfunctional life through education later in life. While in prison in the 1990's he gained an Open University qualification which later led to degrees in criminology, social research methods and sociology. 

He has taught criminology and sociology at the universities of York, Leeds Beckett, Durham, Hull, Sunderland and Manchester as well as being a regular guest speaker across the university circuit. 

David has published extensively on his own lived experiences and in relation to his expertise of desistance theory. In 2012 he self-published his autobiography Never Ending Circles and has since gone on to publish a short monograph: The Ambiguities of Desistance: Ex-offenders, Higher Education and the Desistance Journey and is now working on his second monograph: Living Desistance: Breaking the Cycle.

Akua Arthur is a Lecturer within the School of Criminal Justice. Along with a BA (Joints hons) in Criminology and International Relations, Akua has successfully completed an MA in Social Policy and Development from Middlesex University as well as a MA in Research Methods from the University of Nottingham. Akua is currently in the closing stages of a 6-year part-time PhD at the University of Nottingham, where she has spent extensive time researching on prostitution and sexual and reproductive health policy in her home country of Ghana, West Africa. Her research findings reaffirm the significant role that the criminalisation of prostitution as well as wider socio-cultural practices has on the negative healthcare experiences of female sex workers (FSWs) within Ghana.

Thus, Akua’s research expertise is in race/ethnicity, gender, belonging, rights, respect and citizenship- this additionally, comes from her varied research portfolio. Having conducted numerous qualitative research on a range of topics such as modern slavery through to Decolonising the Curriculum; Akua has also actively participated in setting up conferences that bring to light the harrowing experiences of families and communities affected by the Windrush Scandal. Her personal academic journey coupled with the extensive research experience continues to inform Akua’s teaching style which can be described as candid, enlightening, and sympathetic. Thus, Akua is an Academic Integrity Officer at the University, and she is also part of the Race and Ethnicity Colleague Group which allows her to achieve her passion of increasing BME representation in HE, particularly pertaining to getting more female’s in top educational positions.

Charlotte Rigby is a Lecturer in Criminology within the School of Criminal Justice. Charlotte’s academic career started at Staffordshire University, where she obtained a BA (Hons) in Sociology, followed by an MA in Sociology and Social Justice. Whilst reading for her doctorate, Charlotte worked as a lecturer in Criminology and undertook further pedagogical development by studying for her Postgraduate Certificate in Higher and Professional Education (PgCHPE). She was awarded Fellowship of Advanced HE upon completion. Charlotte is a passionate social researcher, with a particular interest in historical criminology and cultural studies. She is also interested in qualitative methodologies, such as oral histories, photo elicitation, and archival research. Charlotte is currently in the final stages of writing up her doctoral thesis, titled ‘Looking for a Man’s Job? An Exploration of Policewomen’s Experiences throughout the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties’

Chiara Keune has experience as a Teaching Assistant and Lecturer of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She has also developed engaging course curricula and instructional material, fostering active learning through interactive lectures, excursions, and case studies. Chiara is committed to innovative teaching methods and detailed feedback. Additionally, she holds a Master of Science degree and relevant certifications in Victimology and Victim Assistance, Restorative Justice, and Trauma Counselling, further enhancing her understanding of the criminal justice system and its impact on victims. 

Emily started her academic journey whilst working within the Criminal Justice System with front line roles in the Charitable, Prison and Probation Sectors as well as Children’s Social Care, following graduation from her Undergraduate degree in Criminology in 2014. Emily began her journey by sharing her practical experiences with student’s at Manchester Metropolitan University which ignited a desire to continue on this path. This led Emily to more regular at Manchester Metropolitan University followed by the role of Associate Lecturer with Arden University and has recently progressed to her current role. 

Emily sees her extensive practical experience as an essential element of her academic teaching practice and hopes to match this with further academic qualifications in the coming years. Emily is due to begin working towards fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Mark Duncan is a Lecturer within the School of Criminal Justice. Mark is in the last few months of completing his Doctorate. Mark has a Foundation Degree and a BSc (First Class Honours) in Substance Use and Misuse Studies and also an MA with Distinction in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Mark’s Doctorate examined the experience of Black staff working with people from Black communities who have co-existing mental health and substance use problems, and if Police contact further impact this cohort. Mark worked successfully in the Prison Service for 18 years rising through the ranks. Whilst in HMPS Mark was nominated for The Butler Trust award for outstanding contribution to the quality of prison care for anyone working within the Prison Service. Mark has also worked for the NHS, commissioning and managing Drug and Alcohol and Mental Health services, incorporating prison Healthcare services. Prior to lecturing at the University of West London and Arden Mark also taught Humanities (Geography and History) at a Secondary School in East London, his area of origin.  Mark is also a qualified counsellor. 

In her previous role, Salima Murji was the course leader for the BA Criminology degree and gained significant experience within this role of managing students and colleagues. She also has relevant teaching and academic qualifications for her role as a lecturer, which she has been undertaking for the last eight years.

Salima is cognizant in designing and delivering undergraduate curricula through lectures, seminars, and workshops, engaging with leading research and contemporary case studies. Significantly, she has experience in undertaking marking, assessment, and examination duties, as well as in assuring judicious feedback is provided to students as part of her HE experience. Her role as course leader necessitated that she assumed module and programme leader responsibilities, such as a pastoral role through tutoring, a supportive role through dissertation supervision, a disciplinarian role through managing student behaviour, retention, behavioural and attendance issues, and conflict resolution between students.

One way she has been able to put this into practice, is for the last seven years, she has created, developed,  organized, and managed an undergraduate dissertation conference for third year students to present their dissertation ideas and progress to an audience of their peers as well as guest panellists from industry. The degree programmes involved included sociology, psychosocial studies, Criminology, public services, English literature, and media studies, making this conference inter-disciplinary. The conference has included many distinguished guest panelists including Peterborough's poet laureate, news reader Carol Hinds, and Ray Bisby the Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire to name a few. These events have been a great success, with the students having the opportunity to win academic prizes too.