Nicholas Pamment

Dr Nicholas Pamment serves as Director of Innovation and Senior Leadership Team member at the University of Portsmouth's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He specializes in wildlife crime and youth justice, combining applied research with capacity-building initiatives for conservation strategies and police training.

• Strategic lead for UK Police Education Consortium
• Developed Botswana Police Service pre-service training
• Co-founded The Ivory Project at UK House of Commons

His research focuses on green criminology, environmental justice, and conservation criminology, with particular attention to raptor persecution, wildlife forensics, and football hooliganism. Key projects include gelatine lifter applications for pangolin scale forensics and UN Sustainable Development Goals alignment.

• 2024 keynote at European University Institute
• 2022 Royal Society of Edinburgh grant recipient
• 2020 Royal Society funding for wildlife forensics

As Deputy Lead of the Victimology and Ecological Justice Research Group, he collaborates across UK, Botswana, Vietnam and South Korea. His teaching includes Level 8 Publication and Dissemination and Level 7 Green Crime modules, with 21 research outputs spanning criminology and conservation.