Talks

Author

Matt Ashby

Sports events and violence in large cities in the United States

Presentation at the European Society of Criminology annual meeting in Bucharest, Romania.

Open access to criminological knowledge: an update

Presentation at the European Society of Criminology annual meeting in Bucharest, Romania.

How do trafficking-related harms concentrate spatially and demographically? Findings from large-scale analysis of UK victimisation data

Presentation at International Organization for Migration Regional Counter-Trafficking Focal Points Meeting (online) outlining the findings of our research on concentrations…

Benchmarking crime data for global cities

Presentation at the Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis symposium in Yerevan, Armenia, outlining the technical challenges of comparing crime data across global…

What can security consultants learn from how police solve problems?

Presentation to the International Association of Professional Security Consultants Annual Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, outlining what lessons security consultants…

Evidence on hotspot policing

Presentation to a visiting group of officers from the Swedish Police summarising the evidence on the effectiveness of police hotspot patrols.

Forecasting crime for strategic crime analysis

Online seminar for students at the German Police University comparing different methods for forecasting the frequency of crime to support strategic crime analysis.

Forecasting crime for strategic crime analysis: a comparison of methods

Presentation to the Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis 2023 symposium in Stockholm, Sweden, comparing different methods for forecasting the frequency of crime to…

Sports events and violence in large cities in the United States

Presentation at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium 2023 presenting early results of a study into the relationship between violence and sporting events in large US cities.

Benchmarking crime in London against other global cities

Presentation at the Policing Research in London seminar comparing rates of serious violence in London with rates in other global cities.

10 tips for effective police problem solving

Presentation at the London Problem Solving Conference 2023 on how police can effectively solve crime problems.

Comparing harm-spots and hot-spots for crime analysis

Presentation to the Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis symposium in Harrogate, England, on whether harmspots are a potentially useful addition to existing crime…

What effects do CCTV cameras have in criminal investigations?

Presentation to the Trygghetnu conference in Stockholm, Sweden, on the effectiveness of CCTV in assisting criminal investigations.

Changes to police demand in COVID-19 pandemic

Joint online presentation with staff from Cheshire Constabulary at a N8 Policing Research Project small grants webinar on how demand for policing changed during the first…

Modelling and forecasting time series in R

Online presentation as part of the NSC-R seminar series on using time-series models in R.

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

Online presentation at a COVID-19 and Crime research seminar on changes in calls for service during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on my paper Changes in…

Three quarters of new criminological knowledge is hidden from policy makers

Online presentation at CrimCon 2020 on the state of open access publishing in criminology, based on my paper The open-access availability of criminological research to…

Hot spots: how they form and ways to analyse them

Online presentation at a workshop organised by the National Police Chiefs’ Council on using data analysis to solve serious violent crime.

Problem solving at hotspots

Presentation at the National Problem Solving Conference in St George’s Park, England, explaining how to use problem-solving techniques to reduce crime at hotspots.

Indoors and outdoors: weather and the spatial displacement of crime

Presentation to the European Society of Criminology annual meeting in Ghent, Belgium, on whether the relative frequency of crime indoors and outdoors is related to the…

The value of good data about crime

Keynote presentation at the Opening Ceremony and Symposium of UNODC-KOSTAT Centre of Excellence in Daejeon, Republic of Korea, on the value of good-quality crime data in…

Problem solving in Op Pioneer

Presentation at the Leicestershire Police Evidence-Based Policing Conference 2019 on how to apply police problem-solving techniques to thefts from motor vehicles.

Local variations in crime seasonality

Presentation to the European Society of Criminology annual meeting in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on how the seasonality of crime varies between places.

Understanding spatio-temporal patterns of crime around schools

Presentation to the Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis symposium in Elche, Spain.

How to solve problems using evidence based policing

Presentation at the Leicestershire Police Evidence-Based Policing Conference 2018 on using evidence-based policing techniques to help solve crime problems.