Dr Alex Black
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Summary
Alex is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and delivers teaching sessions across the undergraduate programme including graduate skills, research methods, policing and cybercrime.
She is also engaged in academic research, primarily in relation to policing and victimisation and the management of public space. She is currently undertaking research in to the tools and powers used to regulate anti-social behaviour and their impact on communities.
About
Alex completed my BA (Hons) degree in Criminology and her MA in Criminology at the University of Hull.
She left Hull in 2006, taking up a position as a researcher/analyst at Greater Manchester Police.
In 2011 Alex undertook a PhD at the University of York investigating post-industrial urban regeneration in the North of England.
She has worked as a teaching fellow at Keele University, Nottingham University and as a Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Assistant at Loughborough University.
She joined Sheffield Hallam in 2017.
Teaching
Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice
College of Social Sciences and Arts
I am the Criminology Course leader and work closely with the criminology module team and students to deliver the criminology programme.
I teach on the Graduate Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and Development modules, Policing and Crime Reduction, Crime and Justice in the Information Age and the Dissertation module.
Publications
Journal articles
Black, A., & Heap, V. (2025). . Theoretical Criminology.
Heap, V., & Black, A. (2024). . Critical Social Policy.
Heap, V., Black, A., & Devany, C. (2023). . People, Place and Policy (PPP), 17 (1), 1-17.
Heap, V., Black, A., & Rodgers, Z. (2023). . Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Black, A., & Heap, V. (2021). . The British Journal of Criminology.
Heap, V., Black, A., & Rodgers, Z. (2021). . Punishment and Society: the international journal of penology.
Lumsden, K., & Black, A. (2020). . Disability and Society.
Black, A., & Lumsden, K. (2019). . Policing and society.
Hadlington, L., Lumsden, K., Black, A., & Ferra, F. (2018). A qualitative exploration of police officers’ experiences, challenges, and perceptions of cybercrime. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice.
Lumsden, K., Goode, J., & Black, A. (2018). . Sociological Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Online.
Lumsden, K., & Black, A. (2018). . The British Journal of Criminology, 58 (3), 606-623.
Book chapters
Black, A., Lumsden, K., & Hadlington, L. (2019). . In Lumsden, K., & Harmer, E. (Eds.) Online Othering. (pp. 355-378). Springer International Publishing:
Reports
Heap, V., Black, A., & Devany, C. (2022). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice. /helena-kennedy-centre-international-justice/research-and-projects/all-projects/impact-of-anti-social-behaviour-tools-and-powers-on-street-sleeping-homeless-people
Heap, V., Black, A., & Devany, C. (2022). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. /-/media/home/research/helena-kennedy-centre/projects/pdfs/asbstreethomelessnesstoolspowersguidancesept2022.pdf
Heap, V., Black, A., & Rodgers, Z. (2021). Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Theses / Dissertations
Tatton, S.E. (2023). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Albertson, K., Paterson, C., & Black, A.
Internet Publications
Heap, V., Black, A., & Devany, C. (2022). .
Other publications
Heap, V., Black, A., Archer, B., Sargin, A., & Whitworth, J. (2025). Written evidence submitted by Dr Vicky Heap, Dr Alex Black, Dr Benjamin Archer, Dr Ayse Sargin, and Joshua Whitworth (all Ï㽶ÊÓƵ) (CPB50).
Heap, V., Black, A., Archer, B., Ferrazzi, D., & Lynch, R. (2024). . UK Parliament
Heap, V., Grace, J., Black, A., Dickinson, J., & Archer, B. (2020). Joint Committee on Human Rights: