Financial Crime and Cyber Crime Research Network

Jonathan is a former solicitor and consultant in financial crime, risk and compliance. His research and teaching interests lie in financial crime and regulation, including cyber-enabled crimes, criminological theories for white-collar crime, the role of professional enablers and the influence ethics, culture and criminogenic factors have on organisational structures. Jonathan has delivered learning content and presented widely on his research, both at home and internationally, at numerous academic, government, counter fraud and criminal justice conferences, masterclasses and seminars. Audiences, stakeholders, and partners have included the Home Office, the Cabinet Office, the Serious Fraud Office, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the International Compliance Association, the Dutch Ministry for Justice and Security, UNODC and UK banks and building societies.

He is also the founder of IN8consulting.com, a financial crime advisory business and he sits on several committees, including the Secretariat to the APPG on Investment Fraud & Fairer Financial Services, the Wales Fraud Forum and the Prisoners Education Trust. 

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Demelza teaches on the LLB and LLM programmes, with modules including Constitutional and Administrative Law, the Law of Financial Crime and Regulation, and Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility. Her current research interests relate to financial crime and corporate governance, especially corporate economic crime and whistleblowing. Demelza is also a PhD candidate whose thesis aims to analyse how fraud and weak corporate governance relating to corporations within the US contributed to the Great Depression, Savings and Loans crisis, and 2008 financial crisis. 

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Diana is a Solicitor and Senior Lecturer in Law at UWE Bristol. Her research is on financial crime and competition law, with a particular focus on fraud, money laundering, corporate criminal liability and deferred prosecution agreements. Diana has written several publications on these topics and has submitted evidence to policy makers and influential organisations including the Law Commission, FCA and the Treasury.

Diana is a Steering Committee Member for the South West Fraud Forum and has contributed to an Innovate UK funded project, which examined the submission of suspicious activity reports to the National Crime Agency for the regulated sectors. 

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Ian is currently Associate Director for Cyber Security within the school of Computing and Creative Technology. He is responsible for leading around 20 cyber security academic staff. Prior to this he was AHOD Cyber Security & Business Computing, AHOD Information Science, and before that programme leader for the BSc Forensic Computing and Security programme (now renamed Cyber Security and Digital Forensics).

He is Co-Director of our Gold-recognised NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education. He is a highly experienced teacher and academic with a history of programme and module design. He has designed and led modules for nearly thirty years in a number of programmes from the MSc Parallel Computer Systems (1989) through the MSc Systems Administration and Security, to the current undergraduate Forensic Computing and Security programme for which he led the redesign in 2016.  His main interests are networks and network security, operating systems and embedded systems and he has previously led modules in these areas. 

He has interests covering  a wide gamut of cyber security issues, from embedded systems security, through network forensics to organised online crime and digital adversarial behaviours.

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Colin King has joined the Institute as Reader in Law from 1 October 2019. Colin previously worked at the School of Law, University of Sussex, where he co-founded the Sussex Crime Research Centre. Prior to joining Sussex in 2015, Dr King taught at the Universities of Manchester and Leeds. He received his LLB in Law and European Studies, as well as his PhD, from the University of Limerick. Colin has published two books, The Handbook of Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law (2018) and Negotiated Justice and Corporate Crime: The Legitimacy of Civil Recovery and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (2018).

In March 2016, Colin gave oral evidence at the Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into the Proceeds of Crime Act. He is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College (2015-), on the editorial board of Lloyds Law Reports: Financial Crime (2015-), and an Academic Fellow at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (2014-). His teaching is in the areas of Criminal Law; Criminal Evidence; Transnational Offending; Financial Crime; and Banking Law. His research focuses on civil recovery (NCB forfeiture), particularly in Ireland, the UK, the EU, and with reference to the ECHR. Colin is co-editor of Dirty Assets: Emerging Issues in the Regulation of Criminal and Terrorist Assets (King and Walker, Ashgate, 2014).

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Phil is an Associate Professor in Cyber Security and Programme Leader for MSc Cyber Security at UWE Bristol. His research interests address the intersections of cyber security, machine learning, visual analytics, and human-computer interaction. He has led externally-funded research projects and works closely with industry partners on PhD research studentships in the areas of cyber, defence and national security, and on industrial consultancy projects. 

Phil is the Programme Leader for MSc Cyber Security course at UWE Bristol, which has been provisionally certified by the NCSC. He teaches Information Risk Management on the MSc Cyber Security, and Security Data Analytics and Visualisation on BSc Cyber Security and Digital Forensics. Phil supervises PhD students as well as a number of  undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations each year.

He is also co-founder of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education UK (CISSEUK), supported by the NCSC, which aims to promote sharing and collaboration to improve cyber security education across the UK. 

Sam is the Module Leader for the Law of Financial Crime module on the LLB Programme at UWE Bristol. At postgraduate level, she supervises PhD students and LLM dissertation projects on financial crime. Sam is an experienced researcher who has worked on several funded projects, including two projects funded by Innovate UK.  Her research interests lie in the law of financial crime, particularly, the law relating to money laundering, fraud, and corporate criminal liability. Sam has published her research in several leading law journals, including the Criminal Law Review and Journal of Business Law. She is a Steering Group Member of the South West Fraud Forum and the Financial Fraud Awareness Campaign, an Advisory Board Member with the Journal of Economic Criminology for Elsevier and an Editor of the Law of Financial Crime Series for Routledge. Within UWE Bristol, she is a member of the Global Crime, Justice and Security Research Group, and the Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Cluster. 

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Steven is a specialist in the role of corporate governance in preventing financial crime within multinational financial groups. His doctoral thesis, entitled Changing the Culture of Financial Regulation: A Corporate Governance Approach, analysed the roles and responsibilities of the director (both executive and non-executive) within large corporate groups. His research used the global financial crisis as a lens for wider critique. Dr Cairns’ subsequent research has focused on the liability of directors for decision making within the corporate structure. His wider research interests focus on the roles and responsibilities of formal regulators and the board of directors. He currently delivers lectures on banking regulation and financial crime to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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Ismail teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in financial accounting, corporate financial reporting and forensic accounting. His academic research focus is on financial accounting, international financial reporting and forensic accounting. His research projects include pensions accounting and finance, corporate financial disclosure, economic value added, adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards, money laundering, forensic accounting, inflation accounting, and accounting conservatism.

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Amber's primary research interests are organised crime and financial crime, both of which draw on her continuing interest in mafia-type groups. She has developed collaborative partnerships with law enforcement practitioners and fellow academics both in the UK and abroad, and is a member of the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime, as well as the RUSI Strategic Hub for Organised Crime. Amber has published her work in international journals including Trends in Organised Crime, and is currently working on a project titled 'Beyond the figures: exploring success measures in asset recovery', having been awarded funding under the Vice-Chancellor's Early Career Researcher scheme.

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Mary is a recognised subject expert in financial crime in offshore financial centres and transnational organised crime. She is a subject expert for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, and a contributing intelligence analyst with Open Briefing. She has been researching the complex relationship between financial secrecy, criminal proceeds and offshore financial centres since 2003, when she undertook the LLM International Business Law at Aberystwyth University – she later focused on the subject for her PhD (Aberystwyth University, 2011).

Mary’s main research interests surround the concept of confiscation law and its interaction with financial secrecy laws. She is also interested in transnational crime at the wider level, particularly drug trafficking and its interaction with drug trafficking. In October 2012, Mary gave a training workshop on offshore financial centres and money laundering for members of the Abu Dhabi Police force, held at the (former) Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) headquarters. In 2013, Mary was interviewed on the subjects of money laundering and offshore banking for international publications including the LA Times. She was interviewed in 2014 by the Eastern Europe desk of Deutsche Welle (the German news broadcaster), the Financial Times, and was invited to speak by Dods Parliamentary Communications. 

With recent and forthcoming projects, she has concentrated on empirical research to uncover the truths behind wildlife trafficking and money laundering in Vietnam. Mary was a Visiting Research Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University (2015 and 2017).

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