Professor Ian Loader
LLB, MA, MSc, PhD, FRSA
Professor of Criminology and Fellow since 2005
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Background
- Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Criminology, Keele University (from 1992 to 2005)
- Lecturer in Criminology and Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh (from 1990 to 1992)
- Postgraduate, University of Edinburgh (from 1987 to 1993)
- Lecturer in Law, Liverpool Polytechnic (from 1986 to 1987)
- Undergraduate, University of Sheffield (from 1983 to 1986)
Research interests
- Policing and security
- Penal culture and politics
- Public sensibilities towards crime, order and justice
- The relationship between crime control and political culture and ideologies
- Criminology and social and political theory
Selected publications
- (with Neil Walker), Civilizing Security (2007)
- (with Aogan Mulcahy), Policing and the Condition of England (2003)
- (jointly), Crime and Social Change in Middle England (2000)
- Youth, Policing and Democracy (1996)
- (jointly) Cautionary Tales (1994)
Teaching and supervision
- Criminological theory, policing and security
- Crime, political ideologies and political culture/graduate supervision offered in all areas of research listed
Other professional memberships and roles
- Member of the Council, Liberty (from 2008 to 2010)
- Member, Commission on English Prisons Today (from 2007 to 2009)
- Co-convener, with the Police Foundation, Oxford Policing Policy Forum
- Trustee, Police Foundation (from 2007)
- Editor of the British Journal of Criminology
- Associate Editor of Theoretical Criminology
- Member of the editorial boards of Policing and Society, and International Political Sociology
- Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence (2004)
Research awards and grants
- £89,000 from The Leverhulme Trust for a project entitled ‘Shopping for Security: The Meanings and Effects of Security Consumption’ (from 2007 to 2009)