Having completed undergraduate study at the University of Kent and postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge I started my academic career as a researcher working in the field on a range of funded research projects working for the Univesities of Cambridge, Cardiff and Kent. These projects were broadly in the area of criminal justice and included an evaluation of two intensive regimes for young offenders working for Professor David Farrington and Dr Kate Painter and a project looking at the risk management of sexual and violent offfenders and the work of public protection panels for Professors Mike Maguire and Hazel Kemshall. I then worked on a project as part of a national evaluation of the Youth Justice Board's Parenting Programme with Professors Chris Hale and Steve Uglow. 

I then started as a Lecturer in Law at University of Surrey in 2004 and left in 2015 having been the Head of the School of Law when the School submitted to the Law UoA for the first time for REF 2014. I arrived at Royal Holloway as the Founding Programme Director of the newly established LLB Law programme and was then Head of the Department of Law and Criminology as well as the Department of Social Work from 2019-22. I then became the Vice Dean (Education and Student Experience) for the School of Law and Social Sciences from 2022-2025. 

I have taught in a wide range of subjects at a wide range of instiutions including Queen Mary, University of London, University of Southampton, University of Kent, Brunel University and The Open University. Taught subjects include core subjects in Law such as English Legal System, Public Law, Criminal Law, Contract Law, Land Law, Equity and Trusts, Law of Tort and EU Law as well as a range of optional subjects including Family Law, Medical Law, Law of Evidence, Social Work and the Law, Sentencing and Penal Policy, Comparative Criminal Justice Policy, Criminal Justice System, Criminology (UG and PGT) and Research Methods. I have also been an External Examiner for a wide range of institutions at both UG and PGT level during my career including Brunel University, University of Kent, University of Leeds, Birkbeck, University of London, Kingston University, Westminster University, Sunderland University and BPP University. I am also currently a Lead Assessor for the Office for Students. I am a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. I am also the Chair of the University's Assessment and Academic Regulations Sub Committee. 

I have been a visiting professor at the University of Lille and am currently a visiting lecturer at the School of Professional and Continuing Education at the University of Hong Kong. 

I am an experenced PGR supervisor and examiner and have supervised a range of doctoral students in the areas of medical law, family law, medical sociology and criminal justice. 

My research interests have adopted a broad lens across my career in the areas of criminal justice but more recently my work has focused on law and financial crime as well the relationship between law and regulation expecially with health care professionals and the emergence of AI. My work has been funded by a range of external bodies including the HCPC and the National Council of the State Boards of Nursing. I have also been a grant reviewer for the AHRC and the EPSRC and have reviewed submissions for a range of journals including the British Journal of Social Work and Information and Technology Law. I am currently the Associate Editor of Nursing Ethics (Sage). 

I have also long had an interest in research ethics having been the deputy chair of the University Ethics Committee at the University of Surrey. I have been the University Ethics Lead at Royal Holloway since 2022 and chair the University's Research Ethics Committee as well as the Animal Welfare Ethical Review Board. I am also the deputy chair of the University's Principled Partnerships Committee. In this area I am particularly interested in the ethical use of AI in research as well as the development of a culture of care for researchers. 

Externally, I have historically been an active school governor at a range of inner and outer London schools as well as a school in Surrey. I currently sit as a Presiding Justice on the Surrey and Sussex Bench in both the Adult and Family court. I am also a member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for the Appointment of Justices of the Peace in Surrey and Sussex. From 2024-25 I sat on the Thentia AI Advisory Panel and have been an advisor to the Untold Project since 2022 which supports and develops the fiction and non-fiction of writers who have little or no opportunity to access any creative networks where they live in countries such as Afghanistan.