Charlie has a background in criminology, undertaking research at the University of Cambridge and then the Home Office, focusing on prisons, probation and drugs. He then moved to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, where he managed research programmes on young people, drugs and alcohol. In 2010 he moved to the Department of Health Sciences in the University of York, undertaking research and teaching on stigmatisation, drugs and alcohol. He joined the Social Policy and Social Work Department in 2017, to teach on criminal justice and substance use, and undertook research on drug users in prison and police responses to drug use. As part of the School for Business and Society, Charlie is now Co-Director of the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre – a major, five year ESRC investment in research into policing and vulnerability - https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/
Research interests:
PhD supervision - Illicit drugs and criminal justice research including: