Dr Emily Evans

Dr Emily Evans

The Department of Economics
Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Emily is an experienced social researcher having worked in the field of criminal justice and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø safety for over 15 years. She has worked in a variety of research roles across the public, private and academic sectors. This has afforded her experience of all aspects of the research process including tendering, fieldwork, project management, report writing and dissemination.

She is skilled at the use of both quantitative and qualitative data and methods primarily in the field of evaluation. Completing her PhD in 2015 cemented these research skills through further formal training and the opportunity to define and manage an extensive research project of her own. Since then, she has worked as a research fellow at the Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham on a number of funded projects in the field of criminal justice.   

Emily has worked as a research fellow at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø since 2017. In this time she has worked as the research coordinator for the 21st Century Transnational Crime theme of the University’s Institute of Global Innovation; one of four ‘challenge’ themes led by Professor Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, funded to deliver world-leading, multidisciplinary research to address the world’s most pressing challenges. This has involved her supporting the work of the Theme members and the wider work of the Institute. She has also been part of interdisciplinary teams winning and delivering evaluations and feasibility studies of innovative practice in policing and youth justice funded by organizations such as the College of Policing and Youth Endowment Fund. 

Research

Current projects

Part of an interdisciplinary team delivering on three funded projects for the under their Another Chance funding round regarding diverting young people from the criminal justice system. They include a feasibility study, a randomized control trial of mentoring interventions (PI: Professor Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay) and a QED study of hospital navigators (PI: Professor Paul Montgomery).

Past projects

Delivering evaluations and feasibility studies of innovative policing practice regarding violent crime and vulnerability in forces across the country, funded by the (Phase 1&2: 2019-2021; Phase 3: 2020-2021).

Research and evaluation under the College of Policing’s Police Knowledge (2015-2017). Projects regarding mental health and policing and child sexual exploitation.

Evaluation of the Wales Integrated Serious and Dangerous Offender Management () pilots (2017-2018). 

Research and evaluation regarding Evidence Based Policing for Norfolk and Suffolk police (funders: College of Policing, 2014-17). Individual studies regarding contact management (THRIVE), multi-agency working regarding sexual offending, early intervention and public protection regarding registered sex offenders.

Evaluation of the D.A.R.E primary drugs education programme for Life Skills Education C.I.C., the first undertaken in the UK (2015). Based on a pre- and post-intervention survey with randomly assigned test and control samples of primary school children from across the East Midlands.

ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative funded research project exploring the effectiveness of burglary security devices and the impact of local Neighbourhood Watch schemes using data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (2015). The project won the .

Publications

Recent publications

Book

McGuire, J, Evans, E & Kane, E 2021, . Advances in Preventing and Treating Violence and Aggression series , 1 edn, Springer, Cham.

Article

Kane, E, Evans, E, Mitsch, J & Tahseen, J 2020, '', Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 256-267 .

Kane, E, Evans, E & Shokraneh, F 2018, '', Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 108-119 .

Evans, E & Tseloni, A 2018, '', Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 238-249.

Kane, E & Evans, E 2018, '', The Mental Health Review Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 86-93 . <>

Commissioned report

Montgomery-Marks, P, Chandan, J, Evans, E, Bandyopadhyay, S, Burton, A, Thayakaran, T & Kane, E 2024, . Youth Endowment Fund, London. <>

Bandyopadhyay, S, Karavias, Y, Menezes, L, Taylor, J, Apena Rogers, S, Kane, E, Burton, A, Evans, E, Abramovaite, J, Montgomery, P, Chandan, J, Martin, J, Banerjee, A, Cole, M & Chaudhuri, K 2024, . Youth Endowment Fund. <>

Evans, E, Christie, C, Chandan, J & Burrell, A 2024, . College of Policing. <>

Bandyopadhyay, S, Bradbury-Jones, C, Kane, E, Montgomery-Marks, P, Banerjee, A, Karavias, Y, Evans, E, Jordan, M, Chaudhuri, K, Khan, L, Pelosi Campbell, P & Yorulmaz, P 2024, . Youth Endowment Fund, London. <>

Bandyopadhyay, S, Bradbury-Jones, C, Kane, E, Montgomery, P, Banerjee, A, Evans, E, Karavias, Y, Abramovaite, J, Jordan, M, Chaudhuri, K, Khan, L, Burton, A & Pelosi Campbell, P 2023, . Youth Endowment Fund, London. <>

Burrell, A, Evans, E & Nokes, K 2022, . College of Policing. <>

Chandan, J, Evans, E, Abramovaite, J, Taylor, J & Banerjee, A 2022, . College of Policing. <>

Davies, K, Woodhams, J, Abramovaite, J, Evans, E, Banerjee, A & Bandyopadhyay, S 2021, . Vulnerability and violent crime programme, College of Policing, London. <>

Chandan, J, Denne, M, Abramovaite, J, McGuire, R, Nirantharakumar, K, Taylor, J, Bandyopadhyay, S & Evans, E 2021, . Vulnerability and violent crime programme, College of Policing, London. <>

Woodhams, J, Evans, E, Davies, K, Hardiman, M, Abramovaite, J, Banerjee, A, Bandyopadhyay, S, Moreton, C & Forster, O 2021, . Vulnerability and violent crime programme, College of Policing, London. <>