People

The membership of the HERC is drawn from a number of departments within The Open University and affiliated Research Centres. Within The Open University there are currently three levels of membership - full, corresponding/visiting and student.

Co-Directors

• Dr Camilla Elphick
  Applied cognition. Eyewitness face recognition and memory. Digital harassment whistleblowing and digital policing
• Dr Daniel McCulloch
  Homelessness, marginality, experiences of Deaf prisoners

Full Members

• Dr Lis Bates
  Social harms, especially those arising from violence against women
• Dr Gemma Briggs
  Applied cognition. Specifically visual attention and perception for dynamic scenes, including crime scenes
• Dr Lucy Bryant 
• Corporate and criminal justice system harms, relating most often to alcohol or policing 
• Dr Steve Conway
  Identity construction, subcultural theory, restorative justice and harm prevention
• Dr Victoria Cooper
  Homelessness in relation to: housing, hostels, the criminal justice system
• Dr Lynne Copson
  Concept of harm, utopianism (and particularly the development of a ‘utopian methodology’
• Dr Caroline Derry
  Criminal law, sexual offences, gender, consent
• Dr Lydia Devenney
  Alcohol hangovers and cognitive performance
• Dr Eleni Dimou
  Power, resistance, decoloniality, cultural and critical criminology, ethnography
• Dr Leigh Downes
  Gender, sexuality and power with particular interests in feminist, participatory and qualitative methods
• Dr Deborah Drake
  Punishment and sociology of imprisonment
• Dr Rod Earle
  Youth justice, prisons and masculinity
• Dr Julian Edwards
  Work-Related Violence; survey methodology; quantitative data analysis; stress; well-being; psychometrics
• Dr Camilla Elphick
  Applied cognition. Eyewitness face recognition and memory. Digital harassment whistleblowing and digital policing
• Emeritus Prof Ross Fergusson
  Youth governance: criminal justice and social policy
• Dr Lara Frumkin
  Terrorism and extremism, community psychology
• Dr Lystra Hagley-Dickinson
  Effects of imprisonment and tackling race inequalities in Criminal Justice Administration
• Dr Gini Harrison
  Facial recognition
• Prof Catriona Havard
  Facial recognition, eye witness identification, especially in children
• Dr Keir Irwin-Rogers
  Examines the harms caused by prohibitionist drug policies and practices
• Dr Gabi Kent
  Digital media, dialogic processes and storytelling, as research, evidence gathering
• Dr Sarah Laurence
  Face recognition, crowd perception
• Dr Thomas Martin
  Terrorism, counterterrorism, security politics and identity
• Dr Isla Masson 
  Gender and motherhood, incarceration, short sentences and remand, care leavers  
• Dr Daniel McCulloch
  Homelessness, marginality, experiences of Deaf prisoners
• Emeritus Prof Gerry Mooney
  Housing estates and deviancy
• Dr Johanna Motzkau
  Child witnesses, memory
• Emeritus Prof John Muncie
  Comparative youth justice, critical criminology
• Dr James Munro
  Psychology and Bias in legal decision making
• Dr Hayley Ness
  Facial composite systems
• Dr Alison Penn
  Voluntary and Community sector, specifically disability and community development in health, social care and community development
• Dr Dan Petrosian
  Visual criminology, video activism, anti-racism, protest and resistance, qualitative frame analysis
• Prof Graham Pike
  Psychology and policing, eyewitness identification
• Dr David Scott
  The ethical and political foundations of penal abolitionism
• Dr William Sheehan
  Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Policing
• Dr Carly Speed
  Focus on both recognising and challenging the harms that are apparent in both life and death involving patients and their families
• Dr Ailsa Strathie
  CCTV Identification, perception of expert evidence, crime and policing in the internet age
• Emeritus Prof Steve Tombs
  Corporate/state crime and harm
• Dr Jim Turner
  Facial compositing, eyewitness memory
• Dr Zoe Walkington
  Investigative interviewing, narrative in policing
• Prof Louise Westmarland
  Policing culture and gender, police ethics

Affiliated members

The collaborative is linked with Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice

• Dr Rosalind Crone
  History of violence, 19th century prisons
• Dr Paul Lawrence
  History of policing and social exclusion in Europe
• Dr Chris Williams
  History of policing: control, technology, and internationalisation

Corresponding/Visiting members

• Prof Tim Hope, (Retired), Visiting Fellow
• Joanna Mack (Retired), Visiting Fellow
• Dr James Mehigan, Visiting Fellow - University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Prof Reece Walters, Visiting Professor - Deakin University, Australia
• Dr Jack Taylor, Visiting Fellow
• Dr Rosemary Barbaret - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York
• Dr Caroline Brooks - College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Dr Rashid Minhas - School of Human and Social Sciences, University of West London

Student members (full and part-time)

• Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski
  ​FASS, SSGS, Social Policy & Criminology
• Heather Barrett
  Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering
• Angela Charles
  ​FASS, SSGS, Social Policy & Criminology
• Emily Jarvis
  FASS, SSGS, Philosphy