Charlotte joined us in 2021 as a Reader in Criminal Justice and Policing. In this role, she is Policing Strand Lead for the Centre for Criminal Justice Partnerships and a member of the Connect Centre, collaborating on projects with a particular emphasis on policing and other agency responses to violence against women and girls. Charlotte is seconded part-time to the Vulnerability, Knowledge and Practice Programme as a Senior Research Fellow and Academic Lead for the Violence Against Women and Girls strand of work.
Prior to working with us, Charlotte was at Lancaster University and Birmingham City University. She graduated with First Class Honours from Keele University and completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 2015. Over the past decade, Charlotte has worked on and led various externally funded research projects with a particular focus on domestic and sexual violence. This work has led to a range of outputs, media interviews and policy and public engagement activity. Charlotte’s publications include two monographs, an edited collection, edited chapters and journal articles in high impact factor journals, including the British Journal of Criminology and Feminist Legal Studies.
Achieving real-world impact is central to Charlotte's approach to research, and her domestic abuse research has influenced national and international policy and informed the development of police and partner agency training. She is regularly consulted by media, public sector agencies, governing bodies and NGO’s as a domestic abuse expert. Charlotte has been an invited keynote speaker at various national and international events and conferences.
Charlotte is interested in supervising doctoral students who wish to conduct research in the areas of police and other agency responses to domestic abuse, coercive control, violence against women, gender, co-offending and women’s criminalisation.
