Regulation, risk and surveillance research cluster

Our interests are in theories and practices of governance and regulation in a wide range of settings (eg finance, criminal justice, school education, the creative industries) and attendant themes (security, risk, drugs and crime).

Relevant research centres

• The research centres most closely associated with this cluster are the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) and the Birkbeck Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (CPEIS). We often collaborate with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH) and the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR).

Members

• Bernard Keenan (the world wide web and surveillance)
• Guido Comparato (finance and banking)
• Rachael Dobson (social welfare)
• Michelle Everson (insurance and banking regulations)
• Helen Fair (imprisonment)
• Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
• Jessica Jacobson (imprisonment)
• Tiggey May (policing, drug regulations)
• Fiona Macmillan (international economic law and political economy)
• Megan McElhone
• Daniel Monk (home education, school dressing)
• Nathan Moore
• Paul Turnbull (drugs and crime)
• Sappho Xenakis (anti-corruption policies and practices)

Postgraduate Research Student members

• Silvina Alonso-Grosso 
• Jo Blackwell
• James Godfrey

Current and recent externally funded research projects

• TARN: The academic research network on the agencification of EU executive governance (Michelle Everson)
• The facilitation of organised fraud by professional enablers and money launderers (Bina Bhardwa, Tiggey May, Richard Sen)
• World Prison Brief (Helen Fair, Roy Walmsley)