Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Westminster Sally Atkinson-Sheppard was awarded her PhD from King’s College London after completing an ethnographic study into street children’s involvement in organised crime in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sally began her career as a researcher for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in London, where she worked with young offenders engaged in violent offending, developed the MPS first Gangs Manual and represented the MPS in a collaborative study with the British Prison Service which explored the psychology of gang related violence. Sally went on to advise on a variety of criminal justice reform projects in Bangladesh, including leading the Bangladesh Prison Directorate and the Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission through the development of their first strategic plans. She then lived in Beijing for 3 years where she led a study into migrant children’s involvement in gangs and organised crime in China. Sally now works as a senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster. Sally’s research has been published in various journals including the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Criminology, the Asian Journal of Criminology, Child Abuse and Neglect and the Journal of Public Health among others. Her first book: The Gangs of Bangladesh; Mastaans, Street Gangs and ‘Illicit Child Labourers’ in Dhaka. Palgrave Macmillan was awarded the Asian Society of Criminology distinguished book award in 2020. Sally frequently presents her work at international conferences and universities including the University of Cambridge, Oxford University, King’s College London, Hong Kong University and the University of Dhaka. Sally’s current research focuses on county lines in the UK, specifically coercion, control and young people’s agency. She is involved in studies which consider street children’s relationship with play and the UNCRC and gang member life histories. Sally’s research also develops comparative analysis of street children’s involvement in gangs and organised crime in Asia (notably Bangladesh, China and Nepal) and, in collaboration with colleagues in Nepal, the first study into street children’s involvement in gangs and organised crime in Kathmandu. She is writing her second book, ‘Through the lens of labour: developing pan-Asia understandings of young people’s involvement in gangs and organised crime’. The book will propose and develop a new theoretical framework for considering juvenile offending ‘through the lens of labour’.
Professor of Marketing, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University Steve has been a professor of marketing for over ten years and has worked across several universities in Australia. Steve is well known as an applied business researcher interested in applying consumer behaviour theories to solve societal and business problems. With over 66 peer-reviewed journal articles, numerous books, and research grants totalling over $153 million, Professor D'Alessandro's research has significantly impacted the marketing discipline. His work addresses critical issues such as online privacy, consumer trust, and the social impacts of marketing decisions. His contributions to decolonising healthcare services through marketing have advanced the field and demonstrated its societal relevance.
PhD Candidate in ecology, UNSW Sydney Simon is a PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney. He is particularly interested in how seabirds can be used as indicators of environmental change. He is broadly interested in species and ecosystem conservation, and has a passion for animal ecology and natural history, particularly birds. He has experience working with government and non-government stakeholders, and has worked as a research assistant on numerous research, management, and policy-related projects, and collaborates with researchers locally and internationally.
Lecturer in Architecture , Auckland University of Technology I am a scholar and educator specialising in sustainable urban transformation including disaster preparedness, retrofit, and adaptive reuse, driven by emerging digital technologies.
Ph.D. Student, Kinesiology, University of Toronto Sophie Wensel is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she also earned her M.Sc. in Kinesiology. She completed her B.A. majoring in Psychology at the University of British Columbia, and she is a former professional dancer with company and freelance credits in Canada and Germany. Her research focuses on experiences of maltreatment and the development of safeguarding measures in ballet and organized dance contexts.
Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science Dr. Suleman Lazarus holds a PhD in Cybercrime and Criminology. He is an Associate Editor for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal "Digital Threats: Research and Practice." Dr. Lazarus is a Visiting Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Fellow at the Centre of Excellence on Ageing (CEA) at the University of Surrey. He is also an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. Dr. Lazarus created the “Tripartite Cybercrime Framework (TCF),” categorizing cybercrimes into socioeconomic, psychosocial, and geopolitical motivational groups. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals such as "Telematics and Informatics," “Deviant Behavior,” and "Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking." Dr. Lazarus's research focuses on cyber criminals and society.
