Research Institute for Social Sciences

I have a 1^st Class Honours degree in Law from Staffordshire University, a distinction in the Legal Practice Course and an MA in Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice from Keele University.

Prior to undertaking my PhD study @ Keele I was an enforcement official for a local authority and prior to that a Specialist Multi Party Paralegal on the MMR litigation.

I am a PhD Student at Keele University examining the use of on the spot fines across a variety of contexts (motoring, disorder and anti social behaviour).  I am looking at the methods and messages that are communicated by enforcement officials and what messages the recipients’ experience.  The topic itself engages with debates about the use of risk as a justificatory rationale for punishment, comparative aspects of communicative justice in the messages sent by magistrates and on the street enforcers, and the procedural justice of enforcement encounters.

The study is a qualitative study involving interviews with relevant policy makers, magistrates, enforcement officials (including the police), and recipients, focus groups of recipients and non participant observation of enforcement officials.

Conference Presentations

• ‘Don’t shoot the messenger: messages, procedure and distancing in the use of on the spot fines.’  Paper Presented at the 4^th Annual Post Graduate Criminology Conference @ Sheffield University 29^th August 2012-09-11

 Publications

• “Condition Critical for Licences” New Law Journal (2006) 156 7222 pg 700-701

• “DPS Control” New Law Journal (2006) 156 7240