Professor John Lovett
Honorary Professor
Mark was for many years the Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney before taking charge of the Centre for AI and Data Governance, in Singapore. He is the author of over 30 books and monographs and has successfully supervised scores of post graduate research students across the world. While establishing the law school at the University of the South Pacific, he wrote 'The Globalisation of Crime: Understanding transitional relationships in context'. This work led to traversing many dimensions of globalised criminology and his evolving research established a presence in international and comparative criminal justice. More recently Mark has expanded into considering the governance necessities in a digital universe. As courts and police and prisons do not exist in the virtual beyond gaming, we are required to reconsider social ordering and control themes in radically new contexts. For those interested in crime and justice, particularly as it relates to discrimination and vulnerability, virtual environments produce new and vital demands for re-theorising personhood, community, and freedom. The role of law and its enforcement in such contexts cannot be confined to what we know of criminal justice in realspace. Two of Mark's recent books 'Governing the Metaverse: Law order and freedom in digital space' and 'Law's Regulatory Relevance: Property, power and market economies' challenge every field of law and justice studies intending to engage with AI and frontier technologies.
Published books
Governing the Metaverse
Law, Order and Freedom in Digital Space
Law's Regulatory Relevance?
Property, Power and Market Economies
BSc (Hons)(Chemistry), PhD, Postgraduate Teaching Qualification in Secondary Education
Email: V1grobi5@ed.ac.uk
Dr Gill Robinson is an Honorary Fellow in the Law School and Edinburgh Futures Institute. She has a career-long interest in widening access to opportunities and improving the life chances of people who are marginalised and excluded, especially children and young people. She is Professional Advisor for young people in custody with the Scottish Prison Service.
Her interests and areas of knowledge include children, young people and women in the justice system, children affected by imprisonment, prison policy and practice and developments in education. Her work draws together evidence and data of different kinds and seeks to communicate findings and implications in ways that are relevant to policymakers and practitioners, including teachers.
Her previous roles spanned academic research, evaluation, teaching, policy development and practice in different contexts and include Director of the East of Scotland Consortium of the Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAP), Chief Inspector in HM Inspectorate of Education and Head of the Scottish Government’s Curriculum, Assessment and Qualifications Division for the inception of Curriculum for Excellence.