Anne Louise Kirby Portrait

Dr Annie Kirby

Research Fellow

Anne.Kirby@port.ac.uk

Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime

Summary

I joined the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime (CCEC) in 2023. Prior to that, I was a Research Associate in the Cybercrime Awareness Clinic (now part of CCEC) for 6 years.

Biography

I joined the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (SCCJ) at the University of Portsmouth in 2017, initially as a Research Associate in the Cybercrime Awareness Clinic, working on projects relating to cybercrime awareness for young people, older adults and small/medium organisations and the ORPHEUS project, a European Commission funded project which developed a well-being oriented model to foster young people's resilience to ideological grooming by extremist groups.

In 2023 I commenced my current role as a Research Fellow in the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime (CCEC).

Prior to joining the University of Portsmouth I worked for over a decade for local and national law enforcement agencies including the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), theNational Police Chief's Council (NPCC), the ACPO Criminal Records Office (ACRO)  and Dorset Police in a variety of project management, research roles, operational and training roles including:

  • Workstream Manager for the National Police Air Service (NPAS) (secondment to College of Policing and Home Office)
  • Project Manager and Research Lead for the Review of Information Management within the Police Service (RIMAPS) Project (joint NPCC, College of Policing and Home Office project)
  • Project Manager and Research Lead for the European Commission funded Promoting the Mutual Understanding of Criminal Records Information (MUCRI) Project (ACRO )
  • Law Enforcement Guidance co-author for the Serious Offending by Mobile European Criminals (SOMEC) Project (ACRO)
  • Operational Manager for the National Subject Access to the Police National Computer (PNC), back record conversion and international police certificates service (ACRO)
  • National Freedom of Information Policy Writer and Trainer for ACPO and the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (ACPOS)
  • Initial Police Learning and Development Programme Trainer (Dorset Police)

Research interests

My research interests include:

  • Cybercrime awareness education and training
  • Social engineering, emotional manipulation and the persuasive methods used by cyber criminals
  • Building resilience to online disinformation and misinformation
  • The cybercrime awareness and experiences of older adults
  • Online fraud prevention