I have worked on domestic, sexual and ‘honour’ violence and abuse and written particularly on the sex industry and related policy. My research is both theoretical and practice-oriented and I engage regularly with police, NGOs and policy-makers. 

I am currently (2023-2024) working on three areas:

• First, I am in analysis and write-up phase for research into non-consensual 'rough sex'. 
• Second, I am working on police perpetrated domestic abuse.
• Third, and relatedly, I am interested in the relationship between authority and coercion and specifically how 'high status/high public trust' professionals perpetrate sexual violence and abuse, and how professional tribunals and panels respond.  See this paper on doctor abuse, as an example. 

In November 2022, I was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant (1.5m Euro, over 5 years) to further this work on professional perpetrators.  This project will run from Autumn 2023 to Autumn 2028.

Through 2021 and into 2022, I worked on an Oak Foundation funded project looking at faith and coercive control.  This work explored both 'religious coercive control' and 'spiritual abuse' within intimate partner contexts.  It also showed how coercion can be exercised within the family, within the faith community, and by faith leaders.

I continue writing into other disciplinary areas on the intersections of sex, harm and popular culture (see publications list).

In the current teaching year, 2022-2023, I lead a first year mandatory Criminology unit called 'Representations of Crime and Harm', which explores crime in visual, popular and media culture, and the implications for crime control.  I also lead a final year unit called' Sex Power and Consumption', which looks at the sex industry in the UK and globally.