Professor Ian Loader

Professor Ian Loader

Law
University Academic Fellow since 2005

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'.

Research Areas
Policing and Security
Everyday In/securities
The Politics of Crime and Justice
Environmental Harms
Criminology and Mobilities
Criminology and Social and Political Theory
The harms of automobility

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'. The project seeks to use the car, and systems of automobility, as a vehicle through which to explore what it means practice criminology amid climate breakdown. Ian is also teaching a graduate seminar on ‘Criminology and the car’.