New leadership role in National Criminology Network

We’re delighted to share that Dr Darren Cook, Research Fellow at VISION and the Violence & Society Centre at City St George’s UoL, has been appointed Co-Chair of the British Society of Criminology’s Policing Network.

In this role, Darren will help lead national discussions on contemporary policing research and practice, and support collaboration across the UK’s criminology and policing research community.

Darren will play a key role in shaping the Network as a space for thoughtful, impactful, and outward-facing policing research.

The team plans to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration, support early-career researchers, and ensure criminological perspectives are part of broader debates around policing, technology, and justice.