Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou
Email
k.hadjimatheou@essex.ac.ukLocation
6.336, Colchester Campus
Academic support hours
Autumn term: Tuesdays 11:00-13:00
Biography
Kat is the Director of the Centre for Criminology. She is an applied ethicist and criminologist. She is interested in technologies and data used for policing, criminal justice and security. She works particularly in the field of domestic abuse, surveillance, criminal records, and human trafficking. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, Home Office, ESRC, MOPAC and European Commission amongst others. Kat is Chair of the British Society of Criminology's Policing Network. She has also been a member of ethics committees for the National Crime Agency, HMRC, and College of Policing. She is a member of the MET Police's Research Ethics Committee and the Chair of Essex Police's Data Ethics Committee. Kat has provided independent consultancy and expertise to the Foreign Office, European Commission, United Nations, US National Science Foundation, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice and EU borders agency FRONTEX. She has worked on evaluations of domestic abuse interventions for Islington Council and the College of Policing. Kat also regularly acts an independent ethics reviewer for large technology research projects, mainly for the European Commission. Her research has been featured on Woman's Hour, Law in Action, the BBC's 'Bad People' Podcast, BBC Essex and Warwickshire, LBC Radio, and Islam Radio. Kat supervises and is open to supervising PhD projects on domestic violence, stalking, crimes of abuse, police ethics, new technologies in policing including AI, predictive policing, facial recognition amongst others, surveillance, and human trafficking.
