I am a multidisciplinary researcher specializing in media, digital societies, and their impact on everyday life. My work spans cultural criminology and the biopolitics of secrecy, with recent research focused on the criminology of surveillance and the harms posed by emerging technologies like AR, VR, and AI.

As Principal Investigator for a Scottish Government-funded project (2022-23), I led a comprehensive review of Public Space CCTV in Scotland.

Currently, I am Co-Investigator on the DAARC project, exploring the implications of augmented reality (2024-25).

My first monograph, Onlife Criminology: Virtual Crimes and Real Harms, will be published by Bristol University Press in June 2025

My work into the intricate dynamics of toxic and covert elements of coercion and control facilitated through various devices. My research analyses the impact of these mechanisms on personal spaces and explores how technology intertwines with issues of power, surveillance, and control within intimate settings and the effect of digital tools in our everyday life.

Keywords: CCTV cybersecurity; covert surveillance; ;online toxicity; social harms, Covid-19; obfuscation; onlife,

Selected publications

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• In July 2022, I successfully obtained funding for a 7-month contract with the Government of Scotland. Our study studied the utilization and effects of Public Space Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) through a comprehensive survey and qualitative walking interviews conducted in collaboration with various Local Authorities and Police Divisions across Scotland. As the Principal Investigator (PI), my team and I compared the findings with those from other regions in the UK and Denmark.
• Along with my colleagues Dr Mark McGill (School of Computing Science, Glasgow) and Dr Richard Jones (University of Edinburgh), we have secured funding from REPHRAIN (National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online) for a project on DAARC (Design Against AR Crime) (2024-2025)

I am particularly keen in supervising dissertations in novel criminological frontiers such as

• hybrid on/off line reality
• obfuscation, surveillance and data-profiling
• sociological and criminological implications of the Sars-Cov-19 pandemic
• AI and crime prevention
• Smart devices and smart enviroments
• cyberharm and cybersecurity
• Web Toxicity
• Deepfakes, Bots & Weaponization of Media

Covid and cybercrime;

NFT cyberfrauds via online ethnography

Discourse analysis of media moral panicking

Modules that I Teach on:

• 2021/2022: Understanding & Explaining Crime
• 2022/2023: Criminological Theory in Context (Convener)
• 2022/2023: MRes Methods Lab (Convener)
• 2023/24: Digital Societies: Theories and Substantive Issues (Convener)

Previous Teaching Experience:

• Sociology of Media
• Anthropology of Social Control
• Law, Crime & Societies

Grant committees & research advisory boards

• 2022 - 2023: Scottish Goverment,

Selected international presentations

• 2023: SocInfo (Glasgow)

Other than academic publications, I have contributed on magazines and newspapers in both English and Italian.