Rate My Professor Andy Newton

Professor Andy Newton is Professor of Criminology and Policing in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, where he joined in November 2019. He earned a PhD in Criminology from the University of Liverpool in 2004, an MSc in Geographical Information Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1999, and a BSc (Hons) in Geography from the University of Sheffield in 1998. His previous appointments include Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Leicester from September 2017 to October 2019, Reader in Criminology and Director of the Applied Criminology Centre at the University of Huddersfield from 2015 to 2017—where he began as a Research Fellow and progressed to Senior Research Fellow in 2005—and Research Associate at the University of Liverpool from 2002 to 2004.

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).