"Messed Up!" Series

Our guest for this episode is Dr. Louise Baron. Dr. Baron is a tutor in transferable skills courses for research students since 2001. She has designed and presented these courses at UCL, Imperial college London, Oxford University and several other Universities. She is also the tutor for the award-winning workshop “Finish Up, Move On”. The two-day workshop is designed to help PhD students prepare...

Our guest for this episode is Dr. Enrico Mariconti. Since obtaining his PhD from the SECReT Doctoral Training Centre at Department of Security and Crime Science (DSCS) in 2019, Enrico has joined the department as a Lecturer in Information Security and is the current Deputy Postgraduate Tutor. He is passionate about research topics such as malware, cybercrime, and machine learning, applied to a...

Johanna Novales is the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator for UCL Engineering at UCL and Executive Assistant in the Engineering Faculty Office. Since joining UCL in 2011, Johanna has championed for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, creating and delivering the Bite Size EDI series throughout the faculty, covering subjects like pronouns, microaggressions, fatphobia, and EDI in...

Patricio obtained his PhD in Security and Crime Science in 2020 and was a member of staff at the JDI from 2019 to 2023, first as a Teaching Fellow and then as a Lecturer. In late 2023, he left UCL for a position in the private sector. In this episode, he will be sharing advice on how to critically examine your career choices in academia and beyond.

Our guest this episode is Sarah Zheng. Sarah is a final-year PhD student who researches novel ways to help people detect online scams. To this end, she combines methods from cognitive science with technical development. Her Messed Up session will focus on imposter syndrome – what it is, how to identify it and how to get rid of it

Our guest this episode is Lorenzo Pasculli. Lorenzo is Deputy Director of the UCL Dawes Centre for Future Crime, and a Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Security and Crime Science. He has a background in legal studies, and his recent research focuses on corruption and globalisation, and their impact on crime prevention and criminal justice. In this session Lorenzo will be talking...

Our guest this episode is Mohammed Almazrouei. Mohammed is a recent PhD graduate in the Department of Security and Crime Science, and his research investigated the sources and impact of stress in forensic decision-making. Mohammed will be talking about his experiences of specific stressors during the PhD journey that he learned to manage with time and experience.

Our guest this episode is Alina Ristea and the title of the session is " Adapting to New Environments". Prior to joining the Department of Security and Crime Science as a lecturer, Alina has lived, studied, and worked in Romania, Austria, Canada, and three states of the USA. She will be sharing the do’s and don’ts in moving and adapting to new countries and research environments.

Our guest this episode is Vaseem Khan. Vas is the Business Development Director at UCL Deparment of Security and Crime Science. He will be sharing his stories and experiences in helping the Deparment of Security and Crime Science the past 16 years, focusing on what makes or breaks a research grant proposal and what can cause PhD student meltdowns.

Dr Patricio Estévez-Soto. Patricio completed his PhD at our department and became a Lecturer in Security and Crime Science. Patricio's research is mostly focused on crime in Mexico and Latin America and the Caribbean, on issues such as organised crime (in particular extortion), repeat victimisation, quantitative criminology, crime prevention, and the nexus between crime and public policy. He will...