In July 2013 Simon was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology. Before coming to Kent, he worked in the School of Social Sciences at Bangor University and prior to that at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad.

Simon was educated at Cambridge University, the LSE and Keele University, where he took a PhD in criminology. You can read and see more of Simon’s public engagement in journalism on his website here: https://simoncottee.org