Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe
Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

BSC Appointments: President

Interests: Developments in criminal justice policy since 1945; youth justice; community penalties; women and criminal justice; resettlement; discretion; discrimination and criminal justice; psychoanalytical dimensions of crime and criminal justice; the links between criminological theory and social theory; ethics in methods and in the substantive area of criminology.

Chris Lewis
University of Portsmouth.

BSC Appointments : Company Secretary.

Interests : Crime; corrections; Prison forecasts; offender programmes; inspection procedures.

Dr Andy Williams
Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth.

BSC Appointments : Treasurer

Interests : Sexual and violent offenders; public protection; offender profiling; the sociological impact and construction of forensic evidence; the history of scientific knowledge; research methodology and theoretical analysis.

Dr Kate Williams
University of Wolverhampton.

BSC Appointments : Executive Secretary; Conference Committee Member; Finances and General Purposes Committee member.

Interests : Community involvement in policing; policing, vigilantism; and prostitution.

Professor Barry Goldson
The University of Liverpool.

BSC Appointment : Chair of the Youth Criminology/Youth Justice Network.

Interests: Youth criminology and youth justice;
International/comparative youth justice; Childhood, youth and social policy; Critical policy analysis; Critical criminology; Poverty and inequality; Punishment, penality and prisons; 'Secure' institutions; The sociology of childhood and youth (including constructionist and social-structural theorisation, children's human rights, youth identities, youth cultures, youth and community, youth and social order/disorder, youth inclusion and exclusion).

Dr Andrew Millie
University of Glasgow.

BSC Appointment : Chair of the Publications Committee

Interests : Anti-social behaviour, crime and the city, sentencing, policing, crime prevention.

Dr Mark Simpson
University of Teesside.

BSC Appointment: Chair of the Conferences Committee

Interests : Drug use and crime; drug policy; youth crime; criminal justice in particular youth justice; social inclusion; criminal careers; youth transitions; evaluation research and ethnographic research.

BSC Appointment: Chair of the Public Relations Committee.

Interests : The politics of 'law and order', policing, gun control, gun crime, weapons, gangs and violence, anti-social behaviour and community safety, crime and culture, youth justice, the media and images and representations of crime, deviance and social control.

Dr Harriet Pierpoint
University of Glamorgan.

BSC Appointment: Chair of the Regional Groups and Specialist Networks Committee

Interests : Criminal justice processing and vulnerable people in the criminal justice system; alternatives to prosecution and imprisonment; animal abuse

Professor Allan Brimicombe
Head, Centre for Geo-Information Studies, University of East London

BSC Appointments: Chair of the Crime & Justice Statistics Network

Interests : crime analysis, geocoding and data quality issues, GIS and simulation modelling, spatial data mining, cluster analysis and visualisation

Dr Helen Jones
Principal Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University

BSC Appointments : Chair, Learning and Teaching Specialist Network

Research and teaching interests : include the politics of gender violence, critical analysis of policy on rape and sexual violence, elder abuse and educational pedagogy.

Professor Malcolm Cowburn
Sheffield Hallam University

BSC Appointments: Chair of Ethics Committee

Interests : Understanding sexual violence, penal and therapeutic responses to sex offenders and linking these to the critical study of men and masculinities.  Prisons and diversities.  Research ethics in relation to studying 'sensitive topics'.

Dr Nic Groombridge
St Mary’s University College, London

BSC Appointments: Chair of Prizes Committee

Interests : Nic is a former Home Office civil servant with policy and administrative experience latterly in Probation. Experience also includes two years on secondment to the North Kensington Task Force promoting community development and safety. He took his Masters at Middlesex University part time whilst still working at the HO. He then left the civil service and took his PhD also at Middlesex (part time) on car crime (focussing on gender, cultural and green issues in car use, theft and responses to it) whilst working part time at a number of London Universities and as a tutor for the Open University (where he had done his first degree).

He has for the last 17 years been a senior lecturer in sociology at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham again part time. He also specialises in media (and has a Masters in Journalism Studies from Westminster too). An exponent of public criminology he has a website, blogs and twitter feed (@criminology4u). In addition to the interests above he specialises in CCTV and green criminology. He has also taught on undergraduate and post graduate degrees in Kings College London for the last two years and is now the Module co-ordinator for their MA Criminology and Criminal Justice internship programme.

Susie Atherton
Senior Lecturer in Community and Criminal Justice, De Montfort University, Leicester.

BSC Appointments: Chair of Postgraduate Committee

Research Interests : Policing and police culture; resettlement of offenders; drug treatment services for offenders; comparative research in the EU; community justice, social capital and social cohesion.

Dr Anthea Hucklesby
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds.

BSC Appointments: Chair, Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network

Research Interests : Criminal justice and how the system deals with suspects, defendants and offenders with particular interests in the remand process; electronic monitoring; drugs interventions; prisoner's resettlement; prisons; community sentences; compliance and procedural justice; and public and voluntary sector involvement in criminal justice.

Dr Azrini Wahidin
Queen's University Belfast.

BSC Appointments: Chair, Professional Affairs Committee

Research Interests : Youth Justice; Women and the Criminal Justice,  Resettlement; Ethics in methods; Older Offenders; Youth transitions; evaluation research and ethnographic research; Transitional Justice, Political Imprisonment..