Stephanie joined Northumbria as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in July 2020. Prior 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 experiences of reporting crime and the criminal justice system, violence against women including digitalised/image based violence, vicarious trauma and post-traumatic growth. Her research has been funded by Scottish Government, the British Academy, the ESRC and CHANSE/NORFACE. She is a member of a number of working groups focusing on victimisation, including the European Society 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. She is currently ESRC PI and overall Project Lead for the CHANSE/NORFACE funded project Women's Online Wellbeing (WOW): a Eurpean Examination of Digitalised Violence Aganst Women, in collaboration with colleaugues from Orebro University, Southern Technological University, Lleida University and the Polish Academy of Sciences. More info:  https://chanse.org/wow/