Emiline Smith

Dr. Emiline Smith is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences. She specializes in cultural heritage protection, transnational crime, environmental crime, and harms against marine ecosystems. Her research focuses on Asia, with fieldwork in countries like Nepal, Cambodia, and Indonesia. She is affiliated with institutions including the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, UK Blue Shield, and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Emiline also serves as a Fellow at the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Criminology and advises organizations like Ocean Culture Life. Her work explores illicit trade networks, repatriation debates, and the role of 'global cities' in facilitating crime. She has published widely on cultural heritage crimes and authored a children's book, Pema and the Stolen Statue from Dolpa, aimed at educating communities about heritage preservation.

• Research Interests: Cultural/natural resource protection, white-collar crime, oceanic harms, and repatriation.
• Affiliations: Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, UK Blue Shield, Trafficking Culture Research Consortium, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

Her recent grants include projects on repatriation models for Indonesia's cultural heritage, community-informed approaches in Nepal, and plastic waste disposal in the Maldives. Emiline's writings often bridge academic and public discourse, appearing in journals like Hyperallergic and Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.

Key awards include her fellowship at the HKU Centre for Criminology. She actively supervises PhD students in art crime, environmental criminology, and global criminal networks.