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Dr Sue Roberts serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations within the School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics, and Literature at the University of Portsmouth. Affiliated with the Centre for European and International Studies Research, she teaches Politics, Strategic Management, Youth Violence and Knife Crime while supervising PhD students and leading Masters in Public Administration programs. Her role includes managing student placements and serving as Course Liaison tutor for the MRes in Politics and IR.
Her research centers on knife crime and community safety with specific expertise in youth violence, multi-agency partnerships, and UK public sector policy. Key interests include trust dynamics in collaborative working, policy transfer mechanisms, and practical interventions for knife crime reduction. This focus stems from her 15-year public sector career in UK government management prior to academia.
Analysis of her 2016-2022 publications reveals consistent thematic development from local partnership studies toward specialized knife crime research, culminating in her 2020 book Solutions to Knife Crime: A Path Through the Red Sea?. Her work increasingly addresses policy transfer applications and EU transparency issues while maintaining emphasis on community-level interventions and data-driven analysis of urban violence trends.
Dr Roberts actively supervises PhD candidates and leverages her experience managing an EU-funded partnership project in Romania and Bulgaria (with University of Macerata) to inform current research on international policy transfer. Her practical background in public sector partnerships directly shapes her approach to criminal justice delivery and community safety initiatives.
She contributes to the Centre for European and International Studies Research through ongoing projects examining knife crime policy transfer and multi-agency collaboration frameworks. Her work bridges academic research and practical application through continued engagement with UK public sector partnerships and international comparative studies.
