About

I have been actively researching for over thirty years and during this time I have achieved some notable successes in bidding for research funding, delivering research for significant organisations throughout Europe and in managing those projects and the personnel involved in them.

I specialise in applied research, project management and income generation. I have undertaken research for numerous organisations including the Home Office, both in London and regionally in Nottingham, the National Police Training Units at Bramshill and Easingwold, the Prime Ministers Delivery Unit, and the European Commission.

I have published widely in the areas of crime reduction and more recently homelessness, especially relating to women, in academic journals, books, and edited works. Of my four monographs, two were written for Palgrave Macmillan’s Crime Prevention and Security Management Series and of these, one was nominated for the SLSA Hart Prize 2010.

Perhaps most significantly I have led on three European Commission-funded projects, which together were worth in excess of 2.5 million Euros. My work on the phenomenon of female homelessness has made a significant contribution to the academic understanding of this social issue and within the UK I am perhaps the foremost expert on this area. See;

• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2013-2015) Children Rough Sleepers and Runaways in 10 European Countries. Funded by the EU Daphne Fund for the European Commission €1.25 million
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2014-2016) Empowering Women Rough Sleepers to Protect themselves from Violence on the Street. Funded by the EU Daphne Fund for the European Commission, €766,146
• Moss, K. Singh, P. & Williams, K. (2011 –2013) Women Rough Sleepers who are the Victims of Intimate Partner Violence in Europe. Funded by the EU Daphne Fund, for the European Commission €766,000

Teaching responsibilities

I am currently supervising five PhD projects. I currently teach Applied Research Methods at masters level and Victimology at undergraduate level.

In the past, I have taught a number of modules including Theoretical Criminology, Crime Prevention, State Crime, Applied Research Skills, and Constitutional and Administrative Law.

Professional interests

I run seminars in the Midlands region for the British Society of Criminology; these are delivered three times a year at the Universities of Derby, Nottingham and Wolverhampton.

Research interests

My research interests and expertise are in women's homelessness, student homelessness and human rights, with particular emphasis on civil liberties and the right to protest.

My most recent funded work has involved research into homelessness amongst students in Higher Education (HE) for which I secured a British Academy / Leverhulme grant. I am now leading on bids for more substantial funding in relation to this social issue (Nuffield and ESRC) since this social phenomenon is a problem that few in the HE sector or elsewhere are aware of due to the often hidden nature of homelessness among students. 

I am also leading on a bid to carry out narrative and visual research into the policing of Orgreave, 40 years on from this event.

Research Management

• Best, D., Hall, L. & Moss, K. (2022) Assessing the impact of COVID on the social networks, supports, and wellbeing of people convicted of sexual offences and their families. British Academy, PSL2021-0044 Value £10,000
• Moss, K., Singh, P. & Williams, K. (2018-20) A Study of Homelessness amongst Students in Higher Education. British Academy / Leverhulme Fellowship Grant – Value £5,000
• Moss, K., Singh, P., Pease, K. & McDaniel, J. (2018-2019) An Analysis of Protracted Police Discipline Cases within West Midlands Police, funded by the Police Mutual Assurance Society – Value £15,000
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2017-2020) Evaluation of the Axis Youth Hub Crisis Intervention Model for Young Homeless People funded by Wyre Forest Night Shelter through the Big Lottery – Value £15,000
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2016) Evaluation of the South Worcestershire Night stop Big Lottery Funded Value £2,500.
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2015) Evaluation of the Wyre Forest Night Shelter for the National Lottery – Value £2,011.
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2013-2015) Children Rough Sleepers and Runaways in 10 European Countries €1.25 million (£1 million) Funded by the EU Daphne Fund for the European Commission
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2014-2016) Empowering Women Rough Sleepers to Protect themselves from Violence on the Street. Funded by the EU Daphne Fund for the European Commission, €766,146 ( £614,000)
• Moss, K. Singh, P. & Williams, K. (2011 – 2013) Women Rough Sleepers who are the Victims of Intimate Partner Violence in Europe. Funded by the EU Daphne Fund, for the European Commission (766,000 Euros)
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2009) The Wolverhampton Business Crime Initiative. For Wolverhampton City Council. (£40,000)
• Moss, K., Singh, P. & Southern, E. (2009) Coventry Domestic Violence Partnership ‘Impact Evaluation of the Specialist Domestic Violence Court’ (£14,000)
• Moss, K. Singh, P. & Southern, E. (2008) ‘Women Rough Sleepers in Shrewsbury.’ For the Shrewsbury Rough Sleepers Task Force. (£28,000)
• Moss, K. (2006) GMAC: Europe – Greater Manchester against Crime. An Independent Evaluation of a Partnership Business Model - for Greater Manchester Police: (2000 Euros.)
• Moss, K. (2003) The Nottingham Burglary Risk Index: Government Office for the East Midlands (£18,000.)
• Moss, K. (2003) Evaluation of the ‘Rizer’ Website for the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham with Perpetuity Research Consultancy International: (£25,000.)

Membership of professional bodies

• External Advisor to the Cyprus Accreditation Agency for Higher Education 2022-2023
• Project manager and primary researcher for three European Commission research projects between 2011-2015
• Crime reduction consultant for West Yorkshire Police and Sussex Police
• Past member of the Editorial Board for the Community Safety Journal published by Pavilion Press
• Elected Chair of the Midlands Branch of the British Society of Criminology 2001 –
• Co-opted member of the Executive Committee of the British Society of Criminology 2001-2004
• Previously elected member of the Executive Committee of the Designing out Crime Association (UK)
• Past member of the International Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Association
• Provider of crime reduction consultancy for the Policing and Reducing Crime Unit at the Home Office and for the National Police Training Units (now Centrex) at Bramshill and Easingwold
• Legal Advisor for a joint Home Office and ESRC funded study into attrition rates in child abuse cases
• Provider of crime and disorder training on a consultancy basis for police forces and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships nationally in England and Wales between 2000-2004
• Consultant on burglary reduction for the Home Office 2007
• Consultant for the Prime Ministers Delivery Unit for the Planning out Crime Guidance in 2004
• Consultant to Government Office East Midlands for the Project Jupiter information sharing initiative 2002-2004
• Project lead on a pilot project to reduce domestic burglary through data sharing in Nottingham City. This resulted in the Nottingham Burglary Risk Index (2003)
• Consultant for the Prime Ministers Delivery Unit’s consultation paper on the revision of section 115 &17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998

Qualifications

• 1997: PhD, Department of Social Policy, University of Manchester. ‘Medium Secure Psychiatric Provision in the Private Sector’
• 1989: M.Phil. Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
• 1988: LLB (Hons) Department of Law, Manchester Polytechnic

Recent conferences

• Moss, K. (2020) The Mental Health Implications of Protracted Discipline Proceedings against Police Officers: A Study of one National Police Force. The Howard League Conference “Social Harms” 31 March – 1 April 2020 Keble College Oxford. Postponed until 2021
• Moss, K. & Williams, K. (2020) Homeless in HE: A Study of Homelessness amongst University Students in one British University. Funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme. The British Society of Criminology Conference, Liverpool University July 2020. Postponed until 2021
• Moss, K. (2020) The Mental Health Implications of Protracted Discipline Proceedings against Police Officers: A Study of one National Police Force. The British Society of Criminology Conference, Liverpool University July 2020
• Moss, K., McDaniel, J. & Singh, P. (2019) An Analysis of Protracted Discipline Proceedings within one Police Force. Wolverhampton University Annual Research Conference, June 18-19 2019
• Moss, K., Williams, K. & Singh, P. (2019) Homelessness amongst Students in Higher Education. Wolverhampton University Annual Research Conference, June 18-19 2019
•  Moss, K. & Brookes, S. (2016) Managing Homelessness: The Wicked Problem. International Senior Leadership Conference, Edinburgh University, 12-13 December 2016
• Moss, K. (2016) Women Rough Sleepers in Europe: Homelessness and Victims of Domestic Abuse. FEANTSA  Conference, Palace d’Egmont Brussels, 9-20 June, ‘Leveraging the European Consensus to win the fight against Homelessness.’ Invited Speaker
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2014) Ethnographic Research into the Homelessness of Women and Children. British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Liverpool, July 2014

International experience

• External Advisor to the Cyprus Accreditation Agency for Higher Education 2022-2023
• Moss, K. (2016) Women Rough Sleepers in Europe: Homelessness and Victims of Domestic Abuse. FEANTSA  Conference, Palace d’Egmont Brussels, 9-20 June, ‘Leveraging the European Consensus to win the fight against Homelessness.’ Invited Speaker
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2014) Ethnographic Research into the Homelessness of Women and Children. British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Liverpool, July 2014
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2013) Women Rough Sleepers in Europe. British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Wolverhampton, July 2013
• Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2014) Children Rough Sleepers in the EU. University of Manchester Symposium of the Street, June 2014
• Moss, K. (2014) Empowering Women Rough Sleepers, Slovenian National Daphne Conference, 13th March 2014
• Moss, K. (2014) Children Rough Sleepers in the EU. Slovenian National Daphne Conference, 14th March 2014
• Moss, K. (2014) UK National Daphne Conference on Children Rough Sleepers who are Runaways & Homeless and Victims of Violence on the Streets: Sharing Experiences of What Works. Walsall College, 30th October 2014
• Moss, K. (2014) UK National Daphne Conference on Empowering Women Rough Sleepers To Protect Themselves From Violence On The Streets –28th October 2014

Additional interests and activities

I am a PADI-qualified scuba diver, I have two grown-up children one of whom is also an academic and the other an environmental consultant. I enjoy walking my King Charles spaniel, Teddy.

In the media

• Moss, K. (2017) Domestic Violence: For some Women, the Streets are Safer than their own Home, The Guardian, Wednesday 13 December 2017
• Moss, K. (2017) How Domestic Violence and Homelessness are Intertwined for Women. Marie Claire Magazine, July 27, 2017
• Radio Sputnik Edinburgh –Interview on the issue of ‘Upskirting.’ 20 February 2018
• Radio 4 Last Word The Obituary for Professor Tank Waddington, broadcast Friday 11 May 2018
• Moss, K. (2016) It’s Time to Start Taking this Seriously. Comment and Analysis –The Express and Star, Thursday, January 21, 2016
• Moss, K. (2016) Shocking Domestic Abuse Statistics Don’t Show the Real Picture; It’s Even Worse, The Guardian, Wednesday 14th December 2016
• Woman's Hour Radio 4 (2012) The Problem of Women’s Homelessness in Europe

Recent publications

Selected Publications

• Moss, K. & Pease, K. (forthcoming 2024) The Life and Death of Protest, London: Palgrave Macmillan
• Moss, K. &  (2022). Security or Liberty? Human Rights and Protest. In: Gill, M. (eds) The Handbook of Security. Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91735-7_35
• Moss, C.J. & Moss, K. (2019) Out of Sight: Social Control and the Regulation of Public Space in  Manchester, Social Science, Special Edition, ‘Crime Prevention through Pro Social Design.’ Soc. Sci 8, 146 - 156; doi:10.3390/socsci8050146
• Moss, K., McDaniel, J. & Pease, K. (eds) (2020) Policing and Mental Health: Theory Policy and Practice, London: Routledge.
• Moss, K., McDaniel, J. & Pease, K. (2020) An Analysis of Protracted Discipline Proceedings against West Midlands Police Officers in:  McDaniel, J. Moss, K. & Pease, K. (eds) Policing and Mental Health: Theory Policy and Practice, London: Routledge.
• Moss, K. & Rubens, T. (2018) The Impact of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 on Women Survivors who have experienced Domestic Abuse Part I Journal of Housing Law 21 (3) 56.
•  Moss, K. & Rubens, T. (2018) The Impact of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 on Women Survivors who have experienced Domestic Abuse Part II  Journal of Housing Law 21 (5) 95.
• Moss, K. (2016) Social Policy and Human Rights in Morley, S. & Taylor, P. (2015) Companion of State Power, Rights and Liberties. Bristol: Policy Press.
•  Moss, K. & Singh, P. (2015) Women Rough Sleepers: Homelessness and Domestic Abuse. Bristol: Policy Press.