Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology

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Professor Katharine Boyd

Associate Professor (Criminology)

K.Boyd@exeter.ac.uk

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01392 725644

Clayden 1.04

Overview

Office: Clayden 1.04

Research interests: Substantively, my research interests fall under the broad category of violence with two strands of research: violence reated to the police and evidence based practice, including domestic abuse and police use of force; and terrorism, extremist violence and propaganda.

Research Projects:

ExPERT https://expert-study.com/ 

Evaluation of the Breathalyser Initiative, #RU2drunk in the Night Time Economy

Tracing Harm Trajectories in Domestic Abuse

Grants:

2022  Policy Support Fund (PSF) for £18,470 from UKRI Research England and Policy at Exeter; Co-PI with Susan Banducci on 'Understanding the role of digital skills and open source software in evidence based policy and decision-making'.

2021-2022  SSIS ADR Discretionary Fund for £2,000; PI with Susan Banducci and Travis Coan as co-Is on 'Centre of Advanced Research Methods: Strategic Development'.

2019-2021  Policing Lab Funded project for £19,986; Co-PI with Abi Dymond, G.J. Melendez-Torres, & Nico Pugeault on 'Lights, Camera, Action? Using Body Worn Video to assess (de)escalation in police use of force'.

2019-2020  ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) -Strategic Initiative Fund for £75,000; Co-PI with Brian Rappert on 'Policing Lab: Facilitating University-Police Collaborations'.

2019  ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) -Business Boost Secondment Fund for £9,754; Co-PI with Brian Rappert on 'Evidence Collaboration Boost: Co-Production and the Development of the Police Lab'.

2018-2019  ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) -Project Co-Creation Fund for £13,188 from ESRC; 'Tracing Harm in Domestic Abuse'.

2018-2019  ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) -Knowledge Exchange Fellowships for £6,799 from ESRC; Co-PI with Brian Rappert on 'Towards an Evidence-Based Policing Organisation'.

2018  Open Innovation Platform -Collaboration Fund for £3,447 from ESRC; Co-PI with Brian Rappert on "'Mind the Gap': Collaboration Continuity". 

2016-2017  ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) -Project Co-Creation Fund for £9,350; 'Enhancing Evidence-Based Policing: Promoting UK-South Africa Dialogue'

2016  ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) -Project Co-Creation Fund for £19,787; Co-PI with Hannah Farrimond on '#RU2drunk? Evaluation of the roll-out of a breathalyser initiative to reduce   alcohol-related violence in the South West'

2016-2017 CREST for £119,521; Co-PI with Stephane Baele and Travis Coan on 'How does ISIS' Online Propaganda Demonstrate Mechanisms of Radicalisation? Assessing Cognitive Mechanisms of Radicalisation with a Quantitative Analysis of ISIS' Online Propaganda'

2015-2017 Police Knowledge Fund HEFCE and College of Policing Grant for £249,974; Co-PI with Brian Rappert on the Exeter Policing, Evidence, and Research Translation (ExPERT) Project

2014 Fulbright Post-doctoral Scholarship (declined): Two year scholarship to study at Hebrew University

2013-2013 Doctoral Student Research Grant Program Recipient; $1,269 provided by the Graduate Center, CUNY for dissertation research

2012-2013 Terrorism Research Award, Grant Recipient; $5,000 for dissertation research provided by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) funded by the Department of Homeland Security

2012-2013 Constant H. Jacquet Research Award; $3,600 provided by the Religious Research Association for dissertation research

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Research

Research interests: Substantively, my research interests fall under the broad category of violence with two strands of research: violence reated to the police and evidence based practice, including domestic abuse and police use of force; and terrorism, extremist violence and propaganda.

Research group links

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Publications

Copyright Notice: Any articles made available for download are for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the copyright holder.

| 2023 | 2022 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2012 | 2010 |

2023

2022

2020

  • Quinton P, Dymond A, Boyd K, Teers R. (2020) Police Use of Force: Tactics, Assaults and Safety, College of Policing, https://whatworks.college.police.uk/Research/Documents/Use_of_force_report.pdf. [PDF]

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2012

  • Boyd KA, Chung H. (2012) Opinions Toward Suicide: Cross-national evaluation of cultural and religious effects on individuals, Social Science Research, volume 41, no. 6, pages 1565-1580.

2010

  • Strozier CB, Boyd KA. (2010) The Charismatic Leader and the Totalism of Conversion, The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Reflections on Religion, Violence, and History, Oxford University Press.
  • Strozier CB, Boyd KA. (2010) The Apocalyptic, The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Reflections on Religion, Violence, and History, Oxford University Press.
  • Strozier CB, Boyd KA. (2010) Definitions and Dualisms, The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Reflections on Religion, Violence, and History, Oxford University Press.

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Teaching

Modules taught

  • SOC1039 - Social Issues: Part I - Introducing Crime and Deviance
  • SOC1040 - Social Issues: Part II - Themes in Criminology
  • SOC2036 - International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime
  • SOC2092 - Introduction to Terrorism Studies
  • SOC2112 - Introduction to Terrorism Studies
  • SOC3036 - International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime
  • SOC3092 - Introduction to Terrorism Studies
  • SOC3111 - Evidence-Based Policing
  • SOC3112 - Introduction to Terrorism Studies
  • SOCM031 - Evidence-Based Policing

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Biography

I'm an Associate Professor in Criminology in the SPSPA department. I completed my Ph.D. in 2014 from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center in NYC and moved to England to begin my career as a lecturer at the University of Exeter. As PI or co-PI, I successfully obtained 13 research grants totalling over £550,000 for evidence-based policing and terrorism research, publishing in top disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, and engaging local and national stakeholders to translate my research into impact. My research on police use of force with colleague, Dr. Dymond, features in a REF2021 Impact Case Study. Since joining the university, I have advanced criminology and quantitative social science through my roles as Criminology Programmes Coordinator and Co-Director of the Exeter Q-Step Centre.

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