Professor Sarah Kingston
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Professor Kingston’s research interests focus on fraud, gender, sexuality, sexual offences. Her most recent research has examined the nature of money mules in the UK, fraud sentencing, police data on sexual exposure, and the management of sex offenders using ‘reactive management’. Sarah is seconded to a UK police constabulary, managing a research team.
Sarah has been awarded external funding from a range of funders such as The British Academy, The Leverhulme Trust, The Economic and Social Research Council, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The Higher Education Funding Council for England, Vulnerability Knowledge Practice Programme, Lancashire Constabulary, The Sir Halley Stewart Trust, and The Wates Foundation. She has published three monographs, one edited book, several book chapters and journals articles in leading journals such as The British Journal of Sociology, Policing and Society and Sexualities, commissioned reports, and practitioner publications.
Sarah is Director of the Institute for Criminal, Legal and Social Justice and Institutional Lead for the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership.
Sarah has provided expert evidence to a range of parliamentary committees and independent inquiries, such as Home Affairs Select Committee, The Home Office, the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution, the Liberal Democratic party work group on sex work, and Westminster City Council. She have also provided expert evidence to a number of legal proceedings that have involved alleged trafficking and brothel keeping offences. Sarah’s research has featured in over 100 international magazine and newspaper articles, such as The Times, The Independent, Daily Telegraph Australia, Malaysia Chronicle, Nigeria Daily News and Cosmopolitan Magazine.
She has been interviewed for numerous national and international television and radio shows, such BBC Radio Thinking Aloud with Laurie Taylor, France 24 News and ITV News. Sarah has been an invited speaker and keynote at a range of academic and non-academic events such as the launch of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education, Leeds University; Academia Film Olomouc, International Festival of Science Documentary Films, The Czech Republic; Margins and Dialogue: Local, National and Transnational Contexts Conference, University of Pune, India. Sarah also regularly acts as an expert reviewer for funding bodies such as the ESRC, the Marsden Fund Council, New Zealand. She regularly reviews articles for leading journals and book publishers and has been invited to examine PhD’s around the world.
- PhD, School of Sociology & Social Policy, The University of Leeds, 2009
- MA in Social Research, The University of Leeds, 2005
- Graduate Diploma in Law: Common Professional Examination, The University of Central Lancashire, 2003
- BA (Hons) in Applied Social Sciences & Critical Criminology, Edge Hill College, The University of Lancaster, 2002
- Sexuality
- Sex work
- Sex Crimes
- Sexual Health & Safety
- Fraud
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy
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- Criminal Justice Partnership, The University of Central Lancashire
- Lancashire Constabulary Secondment of UCLan Research Staff (2020 – annual renewal, PI)
- HECFE Catalyst Fund - Small-scale, ‘experimental’ innovation. ‘Bridging connections: Improving the links between academic and work-related learning by Criminology students’ (2016-2018, PI - £49,921.00).
- Sir Halley Stewart Trust, “Specialist Family Law and Prison Law advice and advocacy service for mothers in prison: evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of pilot project to meet needs of those at risk of losing children to adoption or other Family Law interventions.” (2016-2019, Co-PI £65,836).
- Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), N8 Policing Partnership: Strand VIII Training and Learning, £140,635.00 (2015 - 2020, PI, 2016-2017).
- The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, Women who buy sexual services in the UK (2014-2015 PI- £9,954).
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) – Directly commissioned research: Relationships between poverty and crime, JRF Project Ref: 1209001z (2013), (2013-2014, Co-PI, £10,000).
- Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 Competition Scholarship Award (2004-2009, £54,500, PTA-030-2004-00805).
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