Kelly Agudelo

Kelly Agudelo serves as a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. She concurrently holds a full-time position as Lead Intelligence Analyst for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), where she has worked since 2005, specializing in sexual offence investigations and intelligence strategy development.

Her academic credentials include:

• MSc in Forensic Psychology from the University of Surrey
• BSc in Psychology from Middlesex University, London

Agudelo's research focuses on translating academic insights into practical improvements for survivors of sexual violence and child abuse. Her work critically examines rape myths, jury decision-making processes in sexual offence cases, and systemic challenges in violence against women and children. Current projects analyze conviction factors in stranger rape cases, with direct applications for investigative protocols and judicial outcomes. Her expertise bridges criminological theory and frontline policing practice through the lens of sexual offence intelligence.

Professionally, she significantly contributed to London's Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) intelligence landscape during her 2016 secondment to the National Police Chief's Council (NPCC) as Regional Analyst, where she synthesized metropolitan-wide CSE patterns. This operational experience directly informs her research methodology and institutional collaborations.

No information regarding student supervision or research funding mechanisms is available in the source material.

Her primary institutional affiliation remains the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute, which serves as the nexus for her academic-policing interface work.