I am a policing researcher and educator whose work is rooted in training in criminology, cultural studies, and sociology. I am drawn to questions about how people make sense of their relationship with state institutions, and what happens when that relationship is tested, contested, or broken.

 

I approach my research through radical contextualism rooted in cultural studies, and through qualitative inquiry that centres the voices and experiences of those I research.​

 

Beyond my doctoral research, I have published on police legitimacy and trust, police oversight and accountability, community policing, the policing of minority communities, and policing in the inter-Asia context.​

 

In my teaching, I draw on comparative perspectives across the United Kingdom and Hong Kong to bring criminological theory into dialogue with lived realities. I believe students bring different strengths, and am committed to creating space for critical, independent thinking.