Rate My Professor Adam Edwards

Professor Edwards' research focuses on collaborative, interdisciplinary studies examining the effects of emergent technologies—including social media and smart cities—on law, governance, and regulation related to crime, security, and justice. He maintains a strong research profile in the politics of security within European city-regions and the organization and reduction of serious crimes. Key publications include the edited volume 'Policing European Metropolises: The Politics of Security in City-Regions' (Routledge, 2017), co-edited 'The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society' (SAGE, 2022), and highly cited articles such as 'Tweeting the Terror: Modelling the Social Media Reaction to the Woolwich Terrorist Attack' (2014) and 'Detecting Tension in Online Communities with Computational Twitter Analysis' (2015). Recent works feature 'Distinguishing European Criminology: A Metatheoretical Argument' (European Journal of Criminology, 2025) and 'Forecasting the Governance of Harmful Social Media Communications: Findings from the Digital Wildfire Policy Delphi' (Policing and Society, 2021). Edwards has been Editor of the Routledge Research Series on Crime, Security and Justice since 2016 and held visiting fellowships at Leiden University (2016-2017) and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2016).