Having completed doctoral work on Anti-Social Behaviour Orders and the intertwined policy fields of Community Safety and Crime Prevention in 2011, between 2013 and 2018 I carried out research with advice services looking at the provision of advice, and debt advice in particular, during the period of austerity. This led me to carry out research also with clients of debt advice services on their experiences of debt, 'priority debts' in particular, were experienced in punitive terms, but also how individuals would find ways of imagining better futures beyond the rhythms of priority debt repayment.

This interest in money and criminal justice has brought me to the study of gambling. I am currently carrying out two projects, looking respectively at crypto-trading in its relationship to gambling and the experiences of betting shop employees.

I bring these research interests into my specialist unit entitled Crime, Harm and Money, and am writing a book entitled The Debt Cycle; How Money and Criminal Justice are Intertwined.