Professor Deborah Oxley

BA, MA, PhD, FRHistS

Quondam Fellow since 2020

My key research interests: Height and health in history; Body mass - a new frontier in anthropometrics; Micro-economics of the household; Penal transportation to Australia; Coercive labour systems; Colonial Australian development; Crime and punishment in Great Britain and Ireland.

Background

University Academic Fellow, All Souls College, and University Lecturer in Social History (2007-2020)
VCs Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics (1994-6); ARC Research Fellow in Economic History (1997-2000); ARC Senior Research Fellow in Economic History (2000-1); Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Policy (2002-5); and finally Adjunct Associate Professor in Economics, University of New South Wales (from 1994 to 2007)
Lecturer in Economic History, University of Melbourne (from 1990 to 1993)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, New South Wales (from 1982 to 1989)

Research Interests

Study of Australian convicts (including gender studies, comparative coercive labour systems, labour markets, colonial economic development, and migration)
Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, focussing on the impact of economic change on the economy and society; in particular, the microeconomics of the household, living standards, health and welfare, and the history of crime and punishment

Selected publications

(with Sara Horrell and David Meredith), ‘Measuring misery: Body mass, ageing and gender inequality in Victorian London’, Explorations in Economic History 46(2009), pages 93–119.
(with David Meredith), ‘Contracting convicts: The convict labour market in Van Diemen’s Land 1840-1857’, Australian Economic History Review (2005).
‘Living standards of women in prefamine Ireland’, Social Science History (2004).
‘“The seat of death and terror”: Urbanisation, stature and smallpox’, Economic History Review (2003).
(with Sara Horrell), ‘Work and prudence: Household responses to income variation in nineteenth-century Britain’, European Review of Economic History (2000).
Convict maids: The forced migration of women to Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Research awards and grants

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship: Weighty Matters (from 2014 to 2017).
Collaborative: AHRC Digital Transformations: The Digital Panopticon (from 2013 to 2016).

Professor Avner Offer

History

MA, DPhil, FBA

Emeritus Fellow since 2011

The post-war 'golden age' of economic growth also built up American and European welfare states. This settlement was challenged in the 1970s by a coalition of business, taxpayers, consumers, ideologists and social scientists. Emerging from this core of discontent, market liberalism retrieved the intellectual and political hegemony, although the Great Recession has cast doubt on many of its premises. I study the origins, attributes, and drivers of this movement, its successes, failures, and prospects. I have recently completed *Social Democracy, The Nobel Prize in Economics and the Market Turn* (Princeton UP, forthcoming). I continue to publish in previous areas of interest, including the urban and rural land tenure, finance, the First World War, and consumption and well-being. A new departure is landscape painting in the nineteenth century in relation to earlier interests in agrarian history and the quality of life.

Link to Website

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011)
Chichele Professor of Economic History (from 2000 to 2011)
Reader in Recent Social and Economic History, and Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford (from 1992 to 2000)
Research Fellow, Australian National University (from 1985 to 1988)
Lecturer, Reader in Economic and Social History, University of York (from 1979 to 1991)
Graduate study at St Antony’s College and Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford (from 1973 to 1979)
Undergraduate and graduate study at Hebrew University, Jerusalem (from 1969 to 1973)
National service, agriculture, and conservation work in Israel (from 1962 to 1969)

Research Interests

Current Research: ‘From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism, c. 1970-2015’ (book project)
‘The Economy of Obligation: Contract Ambiguity and the Welfare State’
‘The Ethics of Rational Choice’

Selected publications

Property and Politics 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
‘The British Empire 1870-1914: A Waste of Money?’, Economic History Review, vol. 46 (May 1993), pages 215-238.
(with Sue Bowden), ‘Household Appliances and the Use of Time in the U.S.A. and Britain Since the 1920s’, Economic History Review, vol. 47, (Nov. 1994), pages 725-748.
‘Going to War in 1914: A Matter of Honor?’, Politics & Society, vol. 23, 2 (June 1995), pages 213-241.
‘Between the Gift and the Market: The Economy of Regard’, Economic History Review, vol. 50, 3 (Aug. 1997), pages 450-476.
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-control and Well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; paperback edition Nov. 2007).
(with Rachel Pechey and Stanley Ulijaszek), 'Obesity Under Affluence varies by Welfare Regimes: The Effect of Fast Food, Insecurity and Inequality’, Economics and Human Biology, vol. 8, 2010, pages 297-308.
(with Gabriel Söderberg), Social Democracy, The Nobel Prize in Economics, and the Market Turn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming).
Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK (2003)

Research awards and grants

Leverhulme Trust (three-year Major Research Fellowship, c. £112,187) (from 2008 to 2011).
BUPA (c. £79,000) (from 2009 to 2011).
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) (USA; c. £83,911) (from 2011 to 2013).
Senior Research Fellowship, Rutgers University (from 1991 to 1992).
Remarque Institute, New York University (1999).
Visiting Fellowship and Leverhulme Award.

Sir Jeremy Morse

KCMG, MA

Honorary Fellow from 2011 to 2016

10 December 1928 - 4 February 2016

Background

Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011 to 2016)
Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College (from 1983 to 2011)
Chancellor, Bristol University (from 1989 to 2003)
Warden of Winchester College (from 1987 to 1997)
Non-Executive Director, Bank of England (from 1993 to 1997)
Deputy Chairman (1975-7) and Chairman (1977-93), Lloyds Bank Ltd (from 1975 to 1993)
Chairman, Committee of London Clearing Bankers (from 1980 to 1982)
Chairman, Deputies of Committee of Twenty, IMF (from 1972 to 1974)
Alternate Governor for UK of IMF (from 1966 to 1972)
Executive Director, Bank of England (from 1965 to 1972)
Fifty Pound, All Souls College (from 1961 to 1968)
Prize Fellow All Souls College (from 1953 to 1960)
Undergraduate at New College (Hon. Fellow, 1979) (from 1949 to 1953)

Research Interests

Classics
Chess problems

Selected publications

Chess Problems: Tasks and Records (London: Faber and Faber, 1995; 2nd edn. 2001).

Other professional memberships and roles

Chairman, GBA (from 1994 to 1999)
Director, Zeneca (from 1993 to 1999)
Vice-President, BITC (from 1992 to 1998)
President, CIB (from 1992 to 1993)
President, Classical Association (from 1989 to 1990)
Honorary Member, Lombard Association (1989)
President, Banking Federation of EC (from 1988 to 1990)
Chairman, Per Jacobsson Foundation (from 1987 to 1999)
Member, Council of Lloyds (from 1987 to 1998)
Member, British Selection Committee, Harkness Fellowships (from 1986 to 1990)
President, British Overseas Cnf. (from 1985 to 1986)
President, Institut Internationales d’Etudes Bancaires (from 1982 to 1983)
Director, ICI (from 1981 to 1993)
President, London Forex Association (from 1978 to 1991)
Freeman, City of London (1978)
Member, NEDC (from 1977 to 1981)
Chairman, City Arts Trust (from 1976 to 1979)
Chairman of Trustees, Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research (from 1976 to 2003)
Governor, Henley Management College (from 1966 to 1985)
Director, Legal and General Assurance Society (1964, 1975-87)

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Dr George Molyneaux

Barrister, Blackstone Chambers, London

MA, DPhil, FRHistS

Quondam Fellow since 2021

My research interests concern medieval Europe, particularly the history of late Anglo-Saxon England.

Background

Barrister, Blackstone Chambers, London (from 2016)
Pupil, Blackstone Chambers, London (from 2015 to 2016)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014 to 2021)
Student, Bar Professional Training Course, City University (from 2014 to 2015)
Student, Graduate Diploma in Law, City University (from 2013 to 2014)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 2006 to 2013)
Domus Graduate Scholar, Merton College, Oxford (2006)
Undergraduate, Christ Church, Oxford (from 2003 to 2006)

Research Interests

Early medieval Europe, especially late Anglo-Saxon England

Selected publications

'Angli and Saxones in Æthelweard’s Chronicle', Early Medieval Europe, 25 (2017), pages 208-23.
'The Origins of the English Kingdom', History Today, 66.2 (February 2016), pages 41-7.
'The Exceptional English?', OUP Blog (10 January 2016).
The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
'Did the English Really Think they were God's Elect in the Anglo-Saxon Period?', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 65 (2014), pages 721-37.
'Original England', Times Literary Supplement, 5780 (10 January 2014), page 25.
'The Ordinance concerning the Dunsaete and the Anglo-Welsh Frontier in the Late Tenth and Eleventh Centuries', Anglo-Saxon England, 40 (2012), pages 249-72.
'Why were Some Tenth-Century English Kings Presented as Rulers of Britain?', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 21 (2011), pages 59-91.
'The Old English Bede: English Ideology or Christian Instruction?', English Historical Review, 124 (2009), pages 1289-1323.

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow, Royal Historical Society (from 2015)

Research awards and grants

Scarman Scholarship (for highest mark in City University Bar Professional Training Course) (2015).
Inner Temple Princess Royal Scholarship (Bar Professional Training Course) (from 2014 to 2015).
3 Verulam Buildings Prize (for highest mark in City University Graduate Diploma in Law) (2014).
Inner Temple Princess Royal Scholarship (Graduate Diploma in Law) (from 2013 to 2014).
Royal Historical Society Alexander Prize (for best published article by a current or recent graduate student at a UK university) (2010).
Gibbs Prize (for highest mark in Oxford Modern History finals) (2006).
H.W.C. Davis Prize (for highest mark in Oxford Modern History preliminary examination) (2004).

Scott Mandelbrote

Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge

MA, FSA

Quondam Fellow since 2012

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2012)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2012)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1997)
Undergraduate at St John’s College, Oxford (from 1987 to 1990)

Research Interests

Early modern intellectual history, particularly the history of scholarship and the history of science

Selected publications

(ed. with J. van der Meer), Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions, 4 vols. (Leiden, 2008)
‘All Souls from Civil War to Glorious Revolution’ and ‘The Vision of Christopher Codrington’, both in S.J.D. Green and J.N.P.B. Horden (eds.), All Souls under the Ancien Régime (Oxford, 2007), pp. 55-75, 132-74
‘English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the Old Testament, 1620-1720: The Impact of Codex Alexandrinus’, in A. Hessayon and N. Keene (eds.), Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 74-93
(ed. with M. Pelling), The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine and Science, 1500-2000 (Aldershot, 2005)
Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work (Cambridge, 2001)
(with J. Bennett), The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple. Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 1998)

Other professional memberships and roles

Editorial director, The Newton Project, currently based at the University of Sussex
General Editor, publications of the Oxford Bibliographical Society

Research awards and grants

Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust, October 2007-March 2009.

Professor James Malcomson

Economics

MA, PhD, FBA

Emeritus Fellow since 2013

My research is primarily concerned with the economics of contracts, especially their implications for labour markets and the provision of health services. In these, as in many other services, important aspects such as the quality of service to be provided are often difficult to specify contractually in advance in a legally enforceable way. Two important issues then arise: (1) how best to structure the contract so that what the parties want is actually provided and (2) what the implications are for delivery of services. I have particular interest in the economics of relational contracts, on-going relationships in which not all contractual details are fully specified in advance in a legally enforceable way. These pervade economic life, especially employment and provision of complex services such as health care.

Link to Website

Link to Curriculum Vitae

Link to Wikipedia entry

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013)
Chair, Office of Health Economics Commission on Competition in the NHS, reported January 2012
Economist member, Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration, 2015-2021
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999 to 2013)
Professor of Economics, University of Southampton (from 1985 to 1998)
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of York (from 1971 to 1985)
Postgraduate and teaching Fellow in Economics, Harvard University (from 1967 to 1971)
Undergraduate, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (from 1964 to 1967)

Research Interests

Contracts and incentives, especially their implications for labour markets and for provision of health services, with incomplete information
Internal organisation of firms

Selected publications

List of my publications are available on my CV,

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow, Econometric Society
Economist member, Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration, 2015-2021
Chair, Office of Health Economics Commission on Competition in the NHS, reported January 2012

Teaching

See 'External Page' for details

Sir Noel Malcolm

History

MA, PhD, FBA, FRSL

Senior Research Fellow since 2002

I have two main fields of interest in my current research: early modern intellectual history, with a special focus on the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679); and relations between Western Europe and the Ottoman/Islamic world in the early modern period. There is some overlap between the two, as the second field includes the development of Western thinking about such things as the nature of Ottoman rule and the doctrines of Islam. My recent publications include an essay on the treatment of those topics in the writings of Jean Bodin (1530-1596), and a study of the first English translation of the Koran (1649). But my interests on this side of my research extend beyond the realm of ideas. My latest book discusses East-West interactions on quite a broad scale in the second half of the sixteenth century, from Venice to Moldavia and Istanbul, encompassing such topics as diplomacy, espionage and galley warfare. My projects for the next few years include preparing another volume of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Hobbes (the autobiographical writings), and writing a book on the Ottoman Empire in Western political thought.

Background

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2002)
Political Columnist, Daily Telegraph (from 1992 to 1995)
Foreign Editor, The Spectator (from 1991 to 1992)
Political Columnist, The Spectator (from 1987 to 1991)
Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (from 1981 to 1988)
Postgraduate, Trinity College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (from 1978 to 1981)
Undergraduate, Peterhouse, Cambridge (from 1974 to 1978)

Research Interests

Early modern intellectual history (British and European), especially a) Thomas Hobbes and b) Western knowledge of the Islamic/Ottoman world

Selected publications

Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (London: Allen Lane, 2015).
(ed.) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2012).
Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years’ War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007).
(with Jacqueline Stedall) John Pell (1611-1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Aspects of Hobbes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Kosovo: A Short History (London: Macmillan, 1998).
The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).

Other professional memberships and roles

Honorary Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (from 2013)
Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (from 2011)
Honorary Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge (from 2010)
Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova

Teaching

DPhil supervision

Professor Ian Maclean

Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Oxford; Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews

History

MA, DPhil, FBA, FRHistS, Officier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Member of the Academia Europaea

Emeritus Fellow since 2015

The general area of my research is the organization and transmission of knowledge in early modern Europe. This involves the history of philosophy (with special reference to Girolamo Cardano, Michel de Montaigne and René Descartes), the history of interpretation in the higher faculties (law, medicine, theology), and the economics and modalities of the book trade in learned books. My present project is an extensive study of the last writings of Cardano which will include a partial edition of his final work, the De prudentia eximia et artificiosa.

Contact:ian.maclean@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Background

Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews (2018)
Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015)
Fellow Librarian, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2015)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2012)
Lecturer, then ad hominem Reader, University of Oxford, Praelector in French, and Fellow of Queen’s College (from 1972 to 1996)
Lecturer, Department of French, University of Leeds (from 1969 to 1972)
British Institute, Paris (from 1967 to 1968)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate (Senior Scholar), Wadham College, Oxford (from 1963 to 1969)

Research Interests

Early modern intellectual history, history of medicine, law and theology, history of interpretation
History of the book
Cardano
Montaigne

Selected publications

Selected recent publications:

Episodes in the life of the early modern learned book, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021
[ed., with Dmitri Levitin] Classical reception in early modern Europe: comparative perspectives, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021
‘The other philology: resolving doubts about textual meaning in early modern law and theology’, in The marriage of philology and scepticism: uncertainty and conjecture in early modern scholarship and thought, ed. Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton and Jill Kraye, London, Warburg Institute, 2019, pp. 27-46
‘Sacrobosco at the book fairs, 1576-1624: the pedagogical marketplace’, in Publishing Sacrobosco’s “De Sphaera” in early modern Europe: modes of material and scientific exchange, ed. Matteo Valleriani and Andrea Ottone, Springer, 2022, pp. 187-224
‘The social status of publishers in Europe, 1560-1630’, in The relation of literature and learning to social hierarchy in early modern Europe, ed. Neil Kenny, London: British Academy, 2022, pp. 97-120
‘Strictum ius: legalism in early modern continental civil law’, Glossae, 20 (2023), 355-77
‘Degrés de certitude: Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes’, Montaigne Studies, 26 (2014), 207-24

Other professional memberships and roles

Lyell Readership in Bibliography, University of Oxford (2010)
Directeur d’Etudes invité, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (2007)
George Parker Winship Lecturer, Harvard University (2006)
Professeur invité, Collège de France (2005)
Member, Advisory Committee, Warburg Institute (from 2003 to 2009)
Joint General Editor, Oxford-Warburg Studies (1999)
Visiting Fellow, Council of the Humanities, University of Princeton (1996)
Member of the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel (from 1996 to 2005)
Visiting Fellow, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel (1995, 2006)
Member, Committee of the Maison Française, Oxford (from 1994 to 2014)
Director, the European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford (from 1994 to 1996)
Eberard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecturer, University of Princeton (1994)
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, CRRS, University of Toronto (1994)
Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Nijmegen (1993)
Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, A.N.U., Canberra, Australia (1983)

Professor Vaughan Lowe

Law

KC, LLB, LLM, MA, PhD

Emeritus Fellow since 2012

My work has included matters such as the territorial status of and boundaries in the Caspian Sea; territorial conflicts in south-east Asia; rights of passage and navigation; jurisdictional questions in relation to competition laws; international law aspects of privatisation programmes; claims arising out of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq; Fisheries disputes; investment disputes; and various aspects of independence and statehood negotiations. Other consultancy work includes provincial/federal continental shelf disputes; international merger regulation; extraterritorial application of US export controls, antitrust and securities laws; extradition; claims to fisheries zones. I conducted reviews of environmental implications of defence projects and is a trainer on the law of the sea and the laws of war for naval officers.

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2012)
Chichele Professor of Public International Law (from 1999 to 2012)
University Lecturer in Law, then Reader in International Law; Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (from 1988 to 1999)
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Law, University of Manchester (from 1979 to 1988)
Lecturer in Law, University of Wales, Cardiff (from 1973 to 1979)
Undergraduate , University of Wales (from 1969 to 1973)

Research Interests

Public International Law, including the settlement of international disputes, investment protection, and the Law of the Sea

Selected publications

(ed. with Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh, and Dominik Zaum), The United Nations Security Council and War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
(joint editor with J.R. Crawford), British Year Book of International Law, vol. LXXVII (2006) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
(with J.G. Collier), The Settlement of International Disputes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
(with R.R. Churchill), The Law of the Sea (1st edn. 1983; 2nd edn. 1983; 3rd edn. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999).
(ed. and contributor with M.R. Anderson, A.E. Boyle, and C. Wickremasinghe), The International Law Commission and the Future of International Law (London: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 1998).
(ed. with M. Fitzmaurice), Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice: Essays in Honour of Sir Robert Jennings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
(ed. with C. Warbrick), The United Nations and the Principles of International Law: Essays in Memory of Michael Akehurst (London: Routledge, 1994).
(with R.J. Bragg), The Business of Licensing (Harlow: Longmans, 1989).
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: An Annotated Collection of Legal Materials (Cambridge: Grotius Publications, 1983).

Other professional memberships and roles

Judge, European Nuclear Energy Tribunal (from 2006)
Barrister, Essex Court Chambers (from 1993)
Associé, Institut de doit international
Bencher, Gray’s Inn (2008)
Joint Editor, British Yearbook of International Law (OUP)
Joint Editor, Publications on Ocean Development (Brill)
Joint Editor, Oxford Monographs in International Law

Teaching

Lectures on public international law, international dispute settlement, Law of the Sea
Supervision of research students in international law

Research awards and grants

Cavaler of the Ordinal National Serviciul Credincios (Knight of the Faithful Service National Order), (Romania, 2009).
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (Japan 2008).

Professor Ian Loader

Professor of Criminology

Law

LLB, MA, MSc, PhD, FBA, FRSA

University Academic Fellow since 2005

Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology. He is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Ian is a Fellow of British Academy and the Royal Society for the Arts.

Ian is the author of numerous books, edited collections, theoretical and empirical papers, and works of public engagement on policing; private security; public sensibilities towards crime and justice; penal policy and culture; crime control and political ideologies, and the democratic purposes of criminology.

Ian's current work focuses of two projects, both of which are coalescing around aspects of environmental harm. He has recently completed fieldwork on a three-year study entitled ‘Place, crime and insecurity in everyday life’ funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and is now writing papers and a book based on the research. The study – conducted with Evi Girling (Keele), Richard Sparks (Edinburgh) and Ben Bradford (UCL) – investigates how people living in one English town, Macclesfield in Cheshire, talk about and act towards a range of threats that they regard as impinging upon their safety (their personal bodily integrity, their property, their locality, their wider habitat). A theoretical prospectus for the study has been published in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology, in addition to papers in the British Journal of Criminology and Criminological Encounters. A summary of project findings can be found here.

Ian is also developing a new line of research on criminology and the harms of automobility. A background article for this project has been published in the Annual Review of Criminology, as well as a brief paper on 15 minute cites and auto-freedom. The project seeks to use the car, and systems of automobility, as an object through which to explore what it means practice criminology in the midst of a climate breakdown. Further papers are planned. Ian is also teaching a new graduate seminar on ‘Criminology and the car’.

Contact:ian.loader@crim.ox.ac.uk

Link to Website

Background

University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005)
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Criminology, Keele University (from 1992 to 2005)
Lecturer in Criminology and Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh (from 1990 to 1992)
Postgraduate, University of Edinburgh (from 1987 to 1993)
Lecturer in Law, Liverpool Polytechnic (from 1986 to 1987)
Undergraduate, University of Sheffield (from 1983 to 1986)

Research Interests

Policing and security;
everyday in/securities;
the politics of crime and justice;
environmental harms,
criminology and automobility;
criminology and social and political theory.

Selected publications

Ian’s publications can be found here - https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/ian-loader

Other professional memberships and roles

Ian is Editor-in-Chief of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
Ian has recently been a member a member of the Advisory Board for the Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales and of the Research Advisory Board of the Canada/Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission.

Teaching

Public and private policing
Politics of crime control
Criminology and the car

Ian supervises doctoral students working on the sociology of policing and security. He is particularly keen to work with students and post-doctoral researchers addressing problems of everyday in/securities, environmental harms, criminology and automobility, and the politics of security and justice.

Research awards and grants

£993,504 from Economic and Social Research Council for a project entitled ‘Place, Crime and Insecurity in Everyday Life: A Contemporary Study of an English Town’ (with B. Bradford, E. Girling and R. Sparks). (2019-2023)

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