Our staff

Staff categories 

A full list of staff categories at Birkbeck's Department of Criminology.

Executive Dean (School of Law)

• Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones

Head of department 

• Dr Sarah Lamble (summer term)

PROFESSIONAL AND SUPPORT STAFF

• Adam Towner Director of Operations, 020 3926 1561
• Shabna Begum Assistant School Manager, 020 3926 1549
• Susan Quarrelle Assistant School Manager (Research), 020 3926 1588
• Vicky Feist Senior Team Leader, 020 3926 1546
• Sue Baines Team Leader (Disability Liaison), 020 3926 1545
• Charlotte Lowe PA to the Executive Dean and Director of Operations, 020 3926 1541
• Sam Tewkesbury Team Leader (Certificate, Short Courses & Foundation Year), 020 3926 1624
• Sophia Khalid Administrator (Cross-School Programmes), 020 3926 1628
• Chloe Monro-Pruett Administrator (Certificate & Short Courses), 020 3926 1622
• Tavinder Mangat Team Leader (Postgraduate Taught Programmes & Postgraduate Research Programmes), 020 3926 1724
• Carlos Coke Administrator (BSc Criminology & Criminal Justice), 020 3926 1618
• Maria Karayianni Administrator (Postgraduate Taught Programmes), 020 3926 1633
• For admissions queries please email law-admissions@bbk.ac.uk

LEARNING DEVELOPMENT STAFF

• Kerry Bannister Learning Development Tutor
• Joy Igiebor Learning Development Tutor

Academic staff 

• Dr Bina Bhardwa ICPR Research Fellow
• Dr Monish Bhatia (On sabbatical Term 1) Lecturer in Criminology, Programme Director Cert HE Criminology (Terms 2 and 3), Criminology Exams Officer (Terms 2 & 3)
• Dr Aviah Day Lecturer in Criminology, Programme Director BSc Criminology & Criminal Justice
• Dr Rachael Dobson Lecturer in Criminology, Co-Director Postgraduate Research, Programme Director CertHE Criminology (Term 1), Criminology Careers & Internships Coordinator
• Professor Jessica Jacobson Professor of Criminal Justice, Director of ICPR, Acting Assistant Dean for Research (Term 2)
• Dr Amy Kirby Lecturer in Criminology, Director and Admissions Tutor LLM/MA Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 
• Dr Sarah Lamble Reader in Criminology and Queer Theory, Acting Head of Department (Term 3)
• Dr Megan McElhone Lecturer in Criminology, Programme Director BSc Criminology & Criminal Justice
• Dr Tanya Serisier Assistant Dean for Equalities, Programme Director and Admissions Tutor MSc Criminology
• Paul Turnbull Senior (On sabbatical Term 3) Research Fellow, Assistant Dean for Criminology
• Dr Sappho Xenakis (On sabbatical Term 2) Reader in Criminology, Assistant Dean for Research, AHRC CHASE Coordinator (Term 1), Convenor of Criminology Seminar Series

Teaching and Scholarship STAFF

• Molly Ackhurst
• Wayne Burnette
• Saeb El Kasm
• Lucia Guetcherian
• Adimeya Keni
• Gemma Lousley
• Gabriella McGrogan

Emeritus professors

• Professor Mike Hough (ICPR): Mike Hough is Emeritus Professor at the School of Law and a member of the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), which he founded and directed until his retirement in 2016. Mike’s research interests include: procedural justice theory; public perceptions of crime and punishment; crime measurement and crime trends; and sentencing. He has around 300 publications. He was President of the British Society of Criminology from 2008 until 2011. In 2020, Mike was awarded the ESC European Criminology Award which recognises the lifetime contribution of a European criminologist. 
• Find out more about Mike’s work and his publications.
• Professor Les Moran: Professor Moran joined the School of Law in 1998 and was head of the school from 2002 to 2005. He has written and researched extensively on matters relating to sexuality and law, criminal justice - with particular reference to hate crime - law and visual culture and the judiciary. Professor Moran is a member of several editorial boards including Law and Society Review, Law and Critique, Liverpool Law Review and the Macquarie Law Journal, and is principle investigator on the Judicial Images Network.
• Email Professor Les Moran
• Take a look at Les Moran's publications. 

Visiting and Honorary staff 

• Professor Penny Cooper, Visiting Professor (ICPR)
• Dr Irarrázabal Gonzalez, Honorary Research Fellow
• Juliet Lyon CBE, Visiting Professor (ICPR): Until summer 2016, Juliet worked as Director of the Prison Reform Trust. She is now Chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody. She also continues to support the World Prison Research Programme of the School of Law's Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research. Juliet is a regular contributor to broadcast and print media and has served to increase public and parliamentary awareness of the state of our prison system and the needs of people within it.
• Dr Mai Sato, Honorary Research Fellow (ICPR)
• Dr Emily Setty, Honorary Research Fellow (ICPR)
• Roy Walmsley, Honorary Senior Research Fellow (ICPR)
• Dr Ali Wigzell, Associate Research Fellow (ICPR)