Stephanie joined Northumbria as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in July 2020. Prioir to this she worked as a criminology lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University and completed both her PhD and a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. Stephanie's research is victim focused with particular interest in psychological aspects of victimisation, victimisation surveys,victim labelling, victim expereinces of reporting crime and the criminal jsutice system, violence agaisnt women, vicarious trauam and post-traumatic growth. She is a memeber of a number of working groups focusing on victimisation, including the European Societ of Criminology working group on Victimology, the British Society of Criminology Victim's network and Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network, and is a member of the EU Cost-Action Cultures of Victimology. Stephanie is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce.