Profile
Karen joined the Department of Social Sciences in 2013. She previously held posts at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Abertay Dundee. She has a PhD in Sociology, PGCE in Higher Education, Masters in Social Research, and MA in Sociology, all from the University of Aberdeen.
Karen is a sociologist of policing and an ethnographer. Her recent work has focused on frontline responses to domestic violence, migrants’ experiences of hate crime in the wake of the Brexit vote, the reporting of online abuse and hate, police-academic partnerships, constructions and understandings of evidence-based policing, and police professionalization.
