Dr Emma Spooner DProf, MSc, BSc (Hons), BA (Hons), FdA

Emma was a police officer with Wiltshire Police for 21 years working as both a Detective Constable and a Detective Sergeant in a range of roles including CID, child abuse investigation, and major crime investigation. She was seconded to the National Crime Agency for 5 years working in Major Crime Investigative Support with a team of national advisers and experts providing advice and support to forces across the country on complex and major crime investigations.

After leaving policing she pursued a career at the University of Sunderland where she is a Senior Lecturer and programme lead on the work-based BA (Hons) Applied Investigation degree. She has also helped to design and deliver a number of short courses around investigating and interviewing aimed at practitioners and regularly delivers training events for police.

Throughout her career, alongside her practical experience, she has studied policing extensively culminating in a Professional Doctorate. Her thesis explored the factors that influence workplace behaviour in investigative interviewing of suspects in sexual offence investigations.

She is a co-author of two books: ‘Police Research and Evidence-Based Policing’, and ‘Dilemmas and Decision-Making in Policing’.