About
Keith is Associate Professor of Criminology based at the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Surveillance
- Monitoring
- Regulation
- Counter-Terrorism
- Prevent Strategy
Current research
Keith’s research focuses on the consequences of security, counter-crime measures, counter-terrorism strategies and surveillance. He has a particular interest in the tacit knowledges employed by organisations and individuals in order to meet compliance regulations. He has published work on eBorders, money laundering, CCTV, Social Media, Watch Groups, The Prevent Duty and the impacts of security regimes.
Current Project
Leverhulme Trust. Watch Groups: Ctizen-led Policing, Digitial Surveillance and Vulnerable Groups (2023-26)
Completed projects
Birmingham 2029 Pathway Grant. Visualising Suspicion: Art, Community and Counter-Terrorism (2019-2020)
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Desecuritising Higher Education (2018-2020).
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
Keith is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has taught on a range of subjects, including surveillance, cybercrime, forensic science, research methods, terrorism and political violence.
Keith has experience of PhD supervision and is accepting applications for PhD students.
Current PhD supervision
2020 - 2023 BCU
Angeliki Ilia - “Prevent within the public sector: Exploring public sector staff perceptions of Prevent and the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015”.
Completed supervision
2013 - 2017 Open University
Pinelopi Troullinou – “Exploring the 'seduced' surveilled subject and the possibilities of everyday resistance; the case of smart phones as means of facilitating 'seductive' surveillance”.
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Keith joined the University in 2022. Prior to joining Southampton Keith was a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University and was Course Director for the MA in Security Studies. After studying for his PhD at Durham University Keith worked at the Open University, where his work focused on three large research projects: The EPSRC funded project Monetize Me exploring lifelogging, reviewing issues of privacy and how data is exploited by users as well as businesses seeking to profit; The EU FP7 funded project Increasing Resilience In Surveillance Society which investigated the social and economic impacts of surveillance technologies; and, the Leverhulme funded project Taking Liberties: New Uses in UK Consumer Data, examining the impacts of compliance within governmental security regulations in the travel and financial service sectors.