The team at UPSI is divided into three main groups. The Director and core research staff are located in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. They lead on the Institute’s research, advisory and consultancy activities.
The Institute also has a number of associate members drawn from across the academic staff at Cardiff University, the University of Glamorgan and other institutions, who collaborate with us on research projects involving particular specialisms. Additionally, a team within the Centre of Police Sciences at the University of Glamorgan leads on police training activities, through the Foundation Degree programme for South Wales Police recruits and the BSc in Police Sciences.
Research Staff
Administrative Staff
PhD Students
Professor Martin Innes is Director of the Universities' Police Science
Institute. Prior to joining the UPSI he was a Senior Lecturer in
the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, where
he taught postgraduate and undergraduate modules on various aspects
of Criminology. He is the author of two books: Investigating Murder
(2003, Oxford University Press; Understanding Social Control (2003,
Open University Press); a large number of scholarly articles that
have been published in journals such as the Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Sciences, British Journal of Criminology
and British Journal of Sociology. Innes is the serving Editor of the journal
Policing and Society. Between 2003 and 2005 he led the research for the
National Reassurance Policing Programme and he is currently an advisor to
Sir Ronnie Flanagan's Review of Policing.
Download CV Here (.pdf - 200Kb), InnesM@cardiff.ac.uk
Trudy Lowe is a Research Fellow in the Universities' Police Science Institute.
She spent 18 years working in clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry
before moving into social science, studying for a master's degree in Criminology
and Criminal Justice at the University of Surrey. She was a Research Fellow
for the Signal Crimes Research team throughout the National Reassurance
Policing Programme and contributed to the development of i-NSI, an operational
methodology for the collection and analysis of signal crimes within communities.
Trudy's research interests centre on the use of community intelligence
to inform policing interventions at a number of levels, from neighbourhood
reassurance to the impact of critical incidents.
LoweT@cardiff.ac.uk
Nicola Weston is a Research Associate at the Universities’ Police Science Institute. She has a background in social sciences and has an MSc in Psychological Research Methods and a PhD in ‘Face Recognition’ from the University of Plymouth. Before joining UPSI Nicola spent a year working for the School of Psychology at Cardiff University where her research involved investigating human memory and perception in relation to how witnesses recognize faces from line-ups. Nicola’s research interests lie in integrating psychological understanding of behaviour with police practice to help aid criminal investigation and police intervention at a number of levels.
Westonn1@cardiff.ac.uk
Helen Innes is a part-time Research Associate at the Universities’ Police Science Institute. She has an MSc in Social Research Methods and a PhD on health inequalities, both from the University of Surrey. Before joining UPSI, she spent worked on a variety of social science projects as a Research Fellow at Surrey University, many of which centred on the secondary analysis of large-scale data. Using this research method, Helen’s research interests focus on the links between community cohesion, social capital and socio-economic disadvantage. Her current work at UPSI uses survey data for Wales to explore these relationships in relation to public perceptions of crime and antisocial behaviour.
Colin Roberts is Operations Manager for UPSI. He is a former police officer and senior police civil staff member with extensive experience of project, people management and training gained both in the UK and overseas. While a
police officer he was seconded to the Department for International Development to work on police reform in Malawi and in a private capacity has
worked as a consultant on policing and human rights for the United Nations
in Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands during the conflicts affecting both countries. He has also acted for some years as policing consultant for
Amnesty International's International Secretariat; a role that has taken him
all over the globe but with particular focus upon sub-Saharan African and
Asia-Pacific countries. He worked with Professor Martin Innes on the
National Reassurance Policing Programme and invented a community
intelligence technology for the capture and analysis of signal crimes and
disorders. In recent years Colin's main interests have centred on his PhD
study of gun violence in Brixton and in particular the generative capacity
of civic infrastructure on informal social control.
colin.roberts@esi-research.co.uk
Rod Morgan is part-time Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Until February 2007 he was Chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, a post from which he resigned following disagreements with ministers over aspects of Government policy regarding youth justice issues. Prior to that he was HM Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales, before which he was an academic researcher and teacher for 30 years, latterly in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bristol.
Rod is a prolific author, having written a score of books and many articles on aspects of criminal justice policy ranging from policing to sentencing. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (4th ed., OUP, 2007), the foremost text on that subject in the UK, and a similar volume on probation (Willan 2007). He has also held almost every post within the criminal justice system that it is possible to hold part time, locally (magistrate, police authority member, chairman of a community safety partnership, etc), nationally (Parole Board, commission member, inspector, government advisor, etc) and internationally (expert advisor to the UN, Council of Europe and Amnesty International on custodial conditions and the prevention of torture). Policing has always been prominent among his interests, particularly issues relating to the exercise of discretion, accountability and governance. He was co-editor of Coming to Terms with Policing (Routledge 1989) and co-author (with Newburn) of The Future of Policing (OUP 1997). He is a trustee of the Police Foundation and Chairman of the Independent Academic Advisory Group on neighbourhood policing. He is also a community activist and campaigner, currently concerned with reducing the criminalisation of children. He is a director or trustee of half a dozen centres and voluntary groups working on criminal justice issues or with young people in trouble.
Aimee has been employed as PA to UPSI’s Director, Prof. Martin Innes since January 2008, having relocated to Cardiff from Dublin shortly before starting. Her background lies in venue and events management, and these skills have been applied in her role at USPI where she has organised internal seminars and conferences and is currently assisting with the co-ordination of the British Society of Criminology’s 2009 Conference. Aimee has a keen interest in the Social Sciences and is currently completing the final year of a BSc (hons) International Studies through the Open University, with plans to continue studying towards a Masters Degree in Social Research Methods following graduation.
Rachel provides Administration Support for the Universities' Police Science Team. Rachel has a background in Social Science completing an Undergraduate Degree in Criminology and Social Policy at Cardiff University in 2004. After graduating she worked for the Business and Taxes department of HM Revenue and Customs providing VAT Advice. In 2006 Rachel relocated to Essex and worked for International Financial Data Services as a Distributions Processing Administrator. She has now relocated back to Cardiff and is working for UPSI providing Administration Support for the UPSI team.
Cheryl is a PhD student at UPSI, her thesis topic is ‘Coming out of the Cold: Negotiating Multi Disciplinary Expertise in Police Cold Case Investigations’. She has an MSc in Social Science Research Methods from Cardiff University, an MSc in Criminal Justice Studies from Portsmouth University, a Law degree from Nottingham Trent University and a Psychology degree from the Open University. Prior to joining UPSI she worked in various roles in the financial services industry. Her research interests include the investigation and detection of unsolved homicides and major crime investigations more generally, miscarriages of justice, the use of psychological interventions in policing and detection and the processes, practices and interactions of the different parties within the Criminal Justice System.
allsopc@cardiff.ac.uk
Sergeant Sarah Tucker is currently a serving police officer with South Wales Police with a background in uniform, policing and public protection. Sgt. Tucker is being partially seconded to the University having been selected to conduct a PhD study. The focus of the current research being within the hidden victims of crime and specializing within the honor based violence and killing, in order to illuminate how the police are responding to issues of ‘hidden victimization’. The focus of the work being undertaken is explicitly ‘applied research’ with a policy/ practice being introduced and evaluated as part of the study. Sarah has an MSc in Social Research Methods from University of Glamorgan and a Psychology BSc from Cardiff University.