Dr Amber Phillips

• Qualifications:BA(Hons), MA, PhD, FHEA
• Position:Senior Lecturer in Criminology
• Department:HAS - Health and Social Sciences
• Telephone:+44117 965 6261
• Email:Amber.Phillips@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Having initially trained as a translator, Amber's journey as a criminologist began in 2012 while she was living and working in Calabria, Italy. Her experiences with anti-mafia organisations inspired her AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Bristol, which she successfully defended in 2018. She was appointed Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Gloucestershire in 2018, before joining UWE as Senior Lecturer in Criminology in 2020. 

Amber's primary research interests are organised crime and financial crime, both of which draw on her continuing interest in mafia-type groups. She has developed collaborative partnerships with law enforcement practitioners and fellow academics both in the UK and abroad, and is a member of the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime, as well as the RUSI Strategic Hub for Organised Crime. She is the co-organiser of the annual UWE Symposium on Organised Crime, and her work has been published in international journals including Trends in Organised Crime. 

Amber's most recent work has focused on the economic impact of mafia-type groups in Italy, and the challenges faced by police officers investigating financial crime.

Amber leads the final year core criminology module Transnational Crime and Comparative Criminology and the optional final year module Organised Crime, as well as the Crime, Media and Culture module in the second year. Amber has been nominated and shortlisted for the UWE Outstanding Teacher Award, and has written teaching-focused articles for Times Higher Education. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Funding Awarded

Area of expertise

• Organised crime
• Mafia-type crime
• Transnational crime
• Financial crime
  
• Crime and the media
  

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