Rate My Professor Andy Newton

Newton's research focuses on the intersection of crime, people, and space, encompassing crime and policing related to transport, technology, and intelligent mobility; acquisitive crime; policy analysis and evaluation; evidence-based policing; data science, crime analysis, and GIS; situational crime prevention; offender mobility; and mixed methods research. He has obtained funding as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator from the Youth Endowment Fund, Home Office, EU Commission’s Directorate General for Mobility and Transport, Department for Transport, ESRC, EPSRC, College of Policing, and others. Notable awards include the EPSRC Researcher in Residence award for piloting a national database on violence against women and girls on public transport and Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. He holds editorial board positions for Crime Science, Security Journal, Police Journal, International Journal of Geo-Information, and Urban Crime. Newton has delivered oral evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on railway security and the Mayor’s Office for London on public transport crime, and serves as academic advisor to Nottingham and Nottinghamshire's Violence Reduction Partnership, Deputy Director of the Centre for Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement, and Director of NTU's Policing Academic Centre of Excellence. Key publications include 'Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England' (2023) and 'Systems Thinking for Sustainable Crime Prevention' (2024).