Recent & upcoming talks

2023

Forecasting crime for strategic crime analysis

Presentation comparing different methods for forecasting the frequency of crime to support strategic crime analysis.

29 August 2023 00:00 online

Forecasting crime for strategic crime analysis: a comparison of methods

Presentation comparing different methods for forecasting the frequency of crime to support strategic crime analysis.

15 June 2023 00:00 Stockholm, Sweden

Sports events and violence in large cities in the United States

Presentation presenting early results of a study into the relationship between violence and sporting events in large US cities.

13 June 2023 00:00 Stockholm, Sweden

Benchmarking crime in London against other global cities

Presentation comparing rates of serious violence in London with rates in other global cities.

25 April 2023 00:00 London, England

10 tips for effective police problem solving

Presentation on how police can effectively solve crime problems.

17 April 2023 00:00 London, England

2022

Comparing harm-spots and hot-spots for crime analysis

Presentation on whether harmspots are a potentially useful addition to existing crime analysis tools such as hotspot mapping.

22 June 2022 00:00 Harrogate, England

What effects do CCTV cameras have in criminal investigations?

Presentation on the effectiveness of CCTV in assisting criminal investigations.

7 April 2022 00:00 Stockholm, Sweden

Changes to police demand in COVID-19 pandemic

Joint presentation with staff from Cheshire Constabulary on how demand for policing changed during the first year of the COVID pandemic

24 March 2022 00:00 online

Réka Solymosi, Matt Ashby, Eon Kim, Nadia Kennar, Karen Byrom, Alex McMillan, Phoebe Liebelt

2021

Modelling and forecasting time series in R

Presentation on using time-series models in R.

28 October 2021 00:00 online

2020

Changes in police calls for service during the early months of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic

Presentation on changes in calls for service during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on my paper Changes in Police Calls for Service During the Early Months of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic.

8 December 2020 00:00 online

Three quarters of new criminological knowledge is hidden from policy makers

Presentation on the state of open access publishing in criminology, based on my paper The open-access availability of criminological research to practitioners and policy makers.

19 November 2020 00:00 online

Hot spots: how they form and ways to analyse them

20 October 2020 00:00 online

Problem solving at hotspots

10 March 2020 00:00 St George's Park, England

2019

Indoors and outdoors: weather and the spatial displacement of crime

19 September 2019 00:00 Ghent, Belgium

The value of good data about crime

20 August 2019 14:00 Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Problem solving in Op Pioneer

13 March 2019 00:00 Leicestershire Police Headquarters

2018

Local variations in crime seasonality

29 August 2018 00:00 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Understanding spatio-temporal patterns of crime around schools

5 June 2018 00:00 Elche, Spain

How to solve problems using evidence based policing

13 March 2018 00:00 Leicestershire Police Headquarters