Summary
Iain Brennan is a Professor of Criminology, a chartered research psychologist and the University of Hull Institutional Lead for Open Research.
Iain's research interests are in violence prevention including weapon-carrying, serious violence and domestic abuse. He is particularly interested in evaluating interventions in these areas and has led many evaluation studies incorporating randomised controlled trials, quasi-experimental designs and process evaluations.
He is an adviser on violence prevention to local and national governmental and non-governmental organisations including Home Office, Youth Endowment Fund, College of Policing, National Police Chiefs' Council and many police forces across the UK.
He has been a principal or co-investigator on more than 20 funded research projects worth over £7.3m from funders including ESRC, Home Office, ADR-UK, NPCC, Jacobs Foundation and the European Commission. He is currently principal investigator on several research projects including a £1.5m evaluation of focused deterrence interventions on behalf of Youth Endowment Fund.
He is the author of over 50 journal articles, reports, chapters and books, a member of the editorial board of British Journal of Criminology and an ADR-UK Ambassador.