My research is focused on gambling-related crime and technology, although I continue to publish in other areas. To date, I have authored two research monographs – Online Gambling and Crime: Causes, Controls and Controversies and Gambling, Crime and Society – whilst my research has been published in high-ranking journals such as International Gambling Studies, the European Journal of Criminology, the International Journal of Comparative Criminology and Offender Therapy, Crime, Media, Culture, and Critical Criminology. I maintain a record of planning, securing, leading and successfully delivering funded research projects from charities and grant making organisations that inform policy and practice.

I joined Sheffield Hallam University as an Associate Lecturer in 2006, successfully applying for a permanent Lecturer in Criminology post in 2007. I have progressed from a Lecturer in Criminology (2007-2010), through to a Senior Lecturer in Criminology (2010-2017), Reader in Criminology (2017-2020) and, most recently in 2020, to Professor of Criminology through SHU’s academic careers framework. I currently lead research in the Department of Law and Criminology and am the coordinator for the University’s Unit of Assessment 20 Social Work and Social Policy REF2021 submission. Most recently, I have focused on capacity building and the development of the research profiles of Department of Law and Criminology’s early career researchers, including researching, writing and publishing with new lecturers and some of the department’s undergraduate and postgraduate students.