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Biography
Dr Amy Burrell is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. Previous roles include Research Fellow at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, Research Assistant at Perpetuity Research, and Training Manager at Perpetuity Training. She also worked in teaching for 6 years - first as a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology (Birmingham City University) and then as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Forensic Psychology (Coventry University).
Amy completed her PhD examining crime linkage (i.e. linking offences committed by the same person using behaviour) in personal robbery in 2013. She is a founding member of the Crime Linkage International Network (C-LINK); a Leverhulme Trust funded research project which brought academics and practitioners from seven countries together to collaborate on research in linking sexual offences. She was the Network Facilitator for the project supporting the project from data gathering and coding to publication of the findings. She was also a co-convenor of a British Academy funded conference entitled “Using behavioural science to target prolific criminals”.
Research interests
Research interests include behavioural crime linkage, group offending/group dynamics, decision making, sex offending, property crime (in particular robbery and burglary), and violent crime (e.g. violence in the night-time economy)
Qualifications
PhD Forensic Psychology (University of Leicester)
MSc Forensic Behavioural Science (University of Liverpool)
BSc (Hons) Applied Psychology (University of Durham)
External positions
Criminal Justice and Behavior (Journal) (Editorial Board)
Oct 2019 → …
Alzheimer's Society
Jul 2014 → …
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Data-Dependent Goal Modeling for ML-Enabled Law Enforcement Systems
Alrajeh, D., Nowack, V., Benjamin, P., Thomas, K., Hobson, W., Muñoz, C. G., Hamilton-Giachritsis, C., Kloess, J. A., Woodhams, J., Butler, D., Law, M., Morton, R., Costello, B., Burrell, A., Grant, T., Shah, P., de Leon, F. L. & Lee, M., 9 Jan 2026, arXiv.Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Preprint
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Enhancing Binary Encoded Crime Linkage Analysis Using Siamese Network
Zhan, Y., Ahmed, F., Burrell, A., Tonkin, M., Galambos, S., Woodhams, J. & Alrajeh, D., 14 Mar 2026, Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: AAAI-26 Special Track AI for Social Impact II and Senior Member Presentations. Koenig, S., Jenkins, C. & Taylor, M. E. (eds.). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, p. 39576-39584 9 p. (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 40, no. 46).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Building the Statistical Evidence Base for Crime Linkage Decision-Support Tools with Sexual Offences
Tonkin, M., Lemeire, J., Woodhams, J., Alrajeh, D., Webb, M., Galambos, S., Smailes, H. & Burrell, A., 3 Jul 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Data-dependent goal modelling for ML-enabled law enforcement systems
Alrajeh, D., Nowack, V., Benjamin, P., Thomas, K., Hobson, W., Gutierrez Munoz, C., Hamilton-Giachritsis, C., Kloess, J., Woodhams, J., Butler, D., Law, M., Morton, R., Costello, B., Burrell, A., Grant, T., Shah, P., Laureano De Leon, F. A. & Lee, M., 1 Dec 2025, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). (International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Impact, Process and Economic Evaluation of the WEPROTECT service
Bandyopadhyay, S., Chandan, J. S., Bradbury-Jones, C., Taylor, J., Montgomery-Marks, P., Evans, E., Burrell, A., Afrin, J., Crowe, F., Martin, J., Ozkan Erciyas, F., Abramovaite, J., Gonzalez Valencia, M. T., Wang, Z., Nambiar, J., Burton, A., Baker, J., Kane, E. & Karavias, Y., 15 Sept 2025, 103 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Are out of court resolutions effective in lowering crime? [NPCC]
Cole, M. (Co-Investigator), Evans, E. (Co-Investigator), Bandyopadhyay, S. (Principal Investigator), Edgemon, T. (Co-Investigator), Afrin, J. (Co-Investigator), Baker, J. (Co-Investigator), Burrell, A. (Co-Investigator), Bennett, M. (Co-Investigator) & Banerjee, A. (Co-Investigator)
23/06/25 → 31/07/26
Project: Other Government Departments
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ITT: itt_84002 - Spiking Perpetrator Research - Enhancing our knowledge of motivations for spiking in the UK
Burrell, A. (Principal Investigator)
7/07/25 → 6/03/26
Project: Other Government Departments
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ITT_614_Preventing Violence against Woment and Girls, and Supporting Children (PSVC): What Works Fund General
Martin, J. (Co-Investigator), Bandyopadhyay, S. (Principal Investigator), Subramanian, A. (Co-Investigator), Abramovaite, J. (Co-Investigator), Bradbury-Jones, C. (Co-Investigator), Karavias, Y. (Co-Investigator), Evans, E. (Co-Investigator), Montgomery-Marks, P. (Co-Investigator), Chandan, J. (Co-Investigator), Crowe, F. (Co-Investigator), Burrell, A. (Co-Investigator), Taylor, J. (Co-Investigator), Nambiar, J. (Co-Investigator) & Gonzalez Valencia, M. T. (Co-Investigator)
1/10/22 → 31/03/25
Project: Other Government Departments