Group Members

Members of the Violence in Society Research Group

Name Title Interests

Dr Anthony Ellis

Associate Professor in Criminology
  • Violence and violent crime
  • Weapon-enabled crime
  • Homicide

Dr Danilo Freire

Senior Lecturer in Criminology
  • Homicide
  • Organised crime in Latin America
  • Vigilantism
  • Political violence
  • Policy evaluation

Dr Baris Cayli Messina

Associate Professor in Criminology
  • Gender-based violence and femicide
  • Terrorism and political violence
  • Radicalisation
  • Mafia and transnational organised crime
  • Structural and cultural violence
  • Crime and violence prevention
  • State violence/Police violence

Dr Bethany Elce

Lecturer in Sociology
  • Unarmed civilian peacekeeping
  • Addressing implication in historic violence

Dr Kim Reising

Senior Lecturer in Criminology
  • Violence, non-violent offending, and mental health
  • Institutional violence, and criminal networks

Dr Alex Oaten

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

  • Suicide
  • Prisons and imprisonment
  • Violent extremism 

Nicki Pierce 

PhD Student - AL in Criminology and Sociology
  • Men, masculinities and violence
  • Youth violence
  • Education system
  • Institutional inequalities

Dr Henry Price

Lecturer in Sociology
  • Masculinist subculture and Incel
  • Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Neoliberalism
  • ‘Dissident Right’