April 2026 – Professor Philip Birch, Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

February 2026 – Dr Adrian Grounds, Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

January 2026 – Dr Carly Lightowlers, Reader in Criminology, University of Liverpool and BSC Crime and Justice Statistics Network chair.

December 2025 – Professor Frances Heidensohn, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science.

November 2025 – Dr Sian Lewis, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Plymouth. Winner of the BSC book award 2025.
October 2025 – Prof Eugene McLaughlin, Professor of Criminology, City St George’s, University of London. 2025 BSC Outstanding Achievement Award recipient.
September 2025 – Dr Bhanu Prakash Nunna, Director, Centre for Victimological Research and Victim Assistance, RV University, India and BSC International Ambassador for India.
July 2025 – Jess Lawrence, Senior Researcher at Interventions Alliance. 
June 2025 – Tunde Adeparusi, Doctoral researcher at Keele University. 
May 2025 – Dr Sarah Waite, Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University.
Apr 2025 – Laura Sibret and Joanna Ashcroft, University of Portsmouth and the 2025 BSC PG conference organisers.
Mar 2025- Manikandan Soundararajan, BSC Postgraduate chair.
Feb 2025 – Prof Francis Pakes and Dr Lisa Sugiura, University of Portsmouth and the 2025 BSC conference organisers.
Jan 2025 – Prof Michael Levi. Michael is Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Dec 2024 – Dr Rachel Vipond. Rachel is a Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader of Criminal Justice in the School for Business and Society, University of York, and the BSC Company Secretary.

Nov 2024- Dr James Tangen. James is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham and Chair of the new BSC Probation & Community Justice Network.

Oct 2024 – Dr Susan Watson. Susan is a Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the University of York and is the BSC Prizes Chair.

Sept 2024 – Prof Alistair Fraser. Alistair is Professor of Criminology at the University of Glasgow.

July 2024 – Dr Jennifer Fleetwood. Jennifer is a senior lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, an editor of the British Journal of Criminology and she co-convenes the working group for Narrative Criminology at the European Society for Criminology.

June 2024 – Professor K. Jaishankar, BSC International Ambassador, Founder/Principal Director & Professor of Criminology and Justice Sciences, International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences (IIJPS), in Bangalore, India and is Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Criminology at the Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

May 2024 –  Professor Vania Ceccato, BSC International Ambassador and a Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

April 2024 – Pat Carlen, founder of the Department of Criminology at Keele University, former Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology and a receipient of the BSC Oustanding Achiveement Award in 2010

March 2024 – Claire Maillet, PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth and Director of Financial Crime Operations, Ziglu.

February 2024 –  Dr Rafe McGregor, Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University.

January 2024 – Professor Angus Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University.

December 2023 – Professor Harriet Pierpoint, Professor of Criminology, University of South Wales. Harriet is co-chair of the BSC Vulnerability Research Network of which details, including how to join, can be found here.

November 2023 – Professor Rob White, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania.

October 2023 – Professor Adam Crawford, Chair in Policing and Social Justice, York Law School, University of York, and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, University of Leeds.

September 2023 – Professor Pam Davies, BSC President and Head of the Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University.

July 2023 – Dr Allan L. Branson, Adjunct Professor in Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Arcadia University, Pennsylvania, USA.

June 2023 – Dr Irene Zempi, Associate Professor in Criminology, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Nottingham Trent University and Chair of the BSC’s Hate Crime Network.

May 2023 – Prof Stephen Tong, Professor in Policing & Criminal Justice and Head of the School for Law, Social & Behavioral Sciences at Kingston University.

April 2023 – Prof Sandra Walklate, BSC President and cojoint Professor of Criminology at Liverpool University and University of Monash, Melbourne, Australia.

March 2023 – Prof Anne-Marie McAlinden, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, Queen’s University Belfast.

February 2023 – Prof Neil Chakraborti, Director of the Centre for Hate Studies and Professor in Criminology, University of Leicester.  

January 2023 – Dr Esmorie Miller, Chair of the BSC’s Historical Criminology Network and Lecturer at Lancashire University.  

December 2022 – Prof Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford.  

November 2022 – Prof Richard Sparks, Professor of Criminology at the University of Edinburgh.  

October 2022 – Dr Jo Smith, Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton and new Public Relations Chair at the BSC.  

September 2022 – Dr Charlotte Barlow, Reader in Criminal Justice and Policing at the University of Central Lancshire’s School of Justice and BSC Vice President.