Professor Ian Loader
Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford and an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Ian is a Fellow of the 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 civic engagement on security, public and private policing; sensibilities towards dis/order and justice; penal policy and culture; crime control and political ideologies, and the democratic purposes of criminology. His current work coalesces around aspects of environmental harm. Ian is presently in receipt of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2025-2028) for a project entitled 'Car harms: Automobility and the objects of criminology'.