I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. I am also a Visiting Research Fellow for the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University.
My research focuses on the spatial and temporal patterning of crime. I am also interested in promoting the use of open software – mainly R – through my teaching and openly available code. If you want to collaborate on an open data project, please get in touch!
PhD in Criminology, 2020
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
MSc in Sociology and Social Research, 2016
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
BSc in Social Policy with Government, 2012
London School of Economics, UK
Towards the end of 2021, I finally plucked up the courage to take a freediving course. At the time, I had never even tried Scuba diving, but a love of swimming and a childish love of trying to swim pool lengths underwater, combined with several inspiring videos, was enough for me to give it a try.
A couple of years ago, Reka Solymosi and I began a side-project on different ways of visualising spatial data. We were (well, still are) interested in how people interpret maps, and how these interpretations might differ depending the type of map being used, even when the underlying data is the same.
In recent years, a consensus has begun to emerge over the suitability of street segments for visualising and analysing the geographic patterning of crime. A number of studies have argued / demonstrated that these so-called ‘micro’ places are not only theoretically meaningful behavioural spaces, but that most action occurs among street segments.
Over the past few weeks I have spent a bit of time exploring police recorded crime trends before and after the UK-wide lockdown. There has been talk of lockdowns representing the largest criminological experiment in history.