Previous Work

Simon has worked in the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector since 2007. Prior to this, he was employed in a variety of frontline roles across Children's Services in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

Since 2021, Simon has been an Honorary Visiting Fellow with the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI) at Anglia Ruskin University.

From 2022 to 2024, Simon was the Independent Chair of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough's Out of Court Disposal Panel.

Examples of previous work undertaken can be found opposite.

    • 2024 - Domestic Homicide Reviews: Key Findings from Analysis of Domestic Homicide Reviews 2022 – 2023, collaboration with Analytics Cambridge and QE Assessments Ltd

    • 2024 - Child Sex Trafficking in England and Wales: The Need to Address Gaps in Practice, academic research collaboration with ARU

    • 2024 – Police Responses to Child Sex Trafficking, academic research collaboration with ARU

    • 2024 – Webinar on Explaining Victim Disengagement from Statutory Services, for Making Research Count

      (MRC), University of Bedfordshire / King’s College London

    • 2024 – Webinar on ‘Impossible Expectations’: Family Law Courts and Survivors of Domestic Abuse, for MRC

    • 2024 - Webinar on Understanding Adult Family Violence, for the Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse Champions Network

    • 2024 - Webinar on ‘In Whose Interest?’ Policy Development and Implementation, for MRC

    • 2024 - Training event on Adult Family Violence: Informing IDVA / DAS Responses, for Cambridgeshire County Council

    • 2024 – Presentation on ‘Fallen Women’, for Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA)

    • The National MAPPA Research: Serious Case Review Report, co-authored with PIER (Policing Institute for the Eastern Region) at Anglia Ruskin University

    • 2023 - Webinar on Managing Professional Vicarious Trauma, for MRC

    • 2023 - An Introduction to Trauma-Informed Practice for Managers, Hackney Council Practice Development Event

    • 2023 - An Introduction to Trauma-Informed Practice for Practitioners, Hackney Council Practice Development Event

    • 2023 - Webinar on Deconstructing the Relationship Between Us and The State: State-Sanctioned Violence Against Women and Girls, for MRC

    • Author of An Evaluation of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Panel (DAPP) for Cambridgeshire Constabulary

    • Home Office, Quantitative Analysis of Domestic Homicide Reviews October 2020 – September 2021, collaboration with Analytics Cambridge and QE Assessments Ltd

    • 2022 - Trauma-Informed Practice, National Policing Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme (VKPP) Practice Development Event

    • 2022 - Webinar on The Patriarchal State and Society: Challenges for Practice, Essex County Council

    • 2022 - Key note presentation on Learning from Domestic Homicide Reviews: Lessons for Northumberland, Northumberland County Council

    • 2022 - Key note presentation on Learning from Domestic Homicide Reviews: Lessons for Stockport, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

    • Author of An impact evaluation of the effectiveness of specialist domestic abuse provision in Norfolk

    • Author of An impact evaluation of the effectiveness of group interventions in Cambridgeshire in response to issues of child safeguarding, child sexual exploitation, domestic abuse, and youth offending

    • Home Office, Domestic Homicide Reviews: Key Findings from Analysis of Domestic Homicide Reviews, collaboration with Analytics Cambridge and QE Assessments Ltd

    • Author of An analysis of ex-parte non-molestation order applications to the Cambridgeshire Family Courts

    • 2021 – Webinar on Working with Child to Parent Abuse, for MRC

    • 2021 - Webinar on Working With Domestic Abuse: Learning From Domestic Homicide Reviews, for MRC

    • Author of An evaluation of the effectiveness of the Southend, Essex and Thurrock Domestic Abuse Partnership with PIER at ARU

    • 2020 - Presentation on Nowhere to Turn: An analysis of the prevalence of, and context to, the perpetration of domestic abuse by police officers and staff in England and Wales since 2015, Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER)

    • 2020 - Webinar on Understanding Domestic Abuse: Intimate terrorism, violent resistance and situational violence, for Restored

    • 2020 - Webinar on Understanding Adult Family Violence Masterclass, Lambeth London Borough Council

    • Author of An analysis on the potential for enhanced victim awareness of local services in Essex, with PIER

    • Author of An analysis on the potential for restorative justice processes to be used in Essex as formal disposals in cases of domestic abuse, with PIER

    • A collaboration with PIER (Policing Institute for the Eastern Region) to explore reasons which account for domestic abuse victim non-engagement with Essex Police

    • 2019 - Research presentation on Police as Perpetrators: An analysis of the prevalence of, and context to, the perpetration of domestic violence / abuse by police officers in England and Wales since 2015, University of Oslo, European Conference on Domestic Violence

    • 2019 - Author of report into Barriers to Victim Engagement with Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary

    • A rapid evidence assessment to inform new police pathways for perpetrators of Adolescent to Parent Violence in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

    • Expert Opinion on Wider Cambridgeshire Constabulary Issues Related to Domestic Abuse Responses

    • An impact evaluation of specialist support for female survivors of domestic abuse at a Cambridge charity

  • 2017 – Presentation on Agency Responses to Domestic Abuse, University of Cambridge

  • 2016 – Presentation on Differentiating Domestic Abuse in Practice, NR8 Policing Innovation Forum, Manchester (with Andy Myhill)

  • 2015 – Presentation on The ‘I’ in Independent Domestic Violence Advocacy Services, for the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol

    2015 - Academic research presentation on The Evolution of Hester’s ‘Planets’: The End of Domestic Violence Advocacy Services? Queen’s University Belfast, European Conference on Domestic Violence

  • 2014 – Academic research presentation on The Coordinated Community Response Model in Practice, British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Liverpool

Media Experience

  • BBC Look East (2017) – on refuge/housing accommodation for victims of domestic abuse

  • Policing Insights (2017) – on differentiating domestic abuse in practice

  • The Guardian (2012) – on a 'Positive Deviance' approach to tackling domestic abuse

  • BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (2007-present) – on local responses to domestic abuse

  • BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour (2009) – on working in a predominately female sector

Teaching At Anglia Ruskin University: Undergraduate/ Post-Graduate modules taught since 2013

Violence in Context

Trial and Error

Criminology in Policy and Practice

Protest and Activism

Theories of Violence

Globalization and Security

Crime, News, and Criminology

Sex and Sex Offending

Cultures of War

Violent Crime