Dr Beth Hardie

Background:

Beth Hardie worked at the University of Cambridge with P-O Wikström from 2004 to 2020 as a Research Associate and Research Manager of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). She is currently a Senior Research and Innovation Associate on the exciting Phase 3 of PADS+ led by Professor Kyle Treiber, and is affiliated to the Centre for Analytic Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Dr Hardie is the founder and co-principal investigator together with Dr Neema Trivedi-Bateman of the newly-developed SAT-informed and evidence-based SATNAV intervention programme for schools. She is also the Managing Editor of the European Journal of Criminology, the flagship journal of the European Society of Criminology. Dr Hardie is collaborating with various academic researchers and practitioners to apply her knowledge, analytical approach and SAT to topics including parental monitoring, corruption, speeding and road safety, and the measurement of self-control.

 

Dr Hardie graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in Social and Political Sciences in 2004. She has an academic background in the social sciences with a focus on developmental and social psychology and criminology. Her research is grounded in an analytical approach that integrates individually and environmentally focused explanations of human behaviour, including crime. She was awarded a PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge in 2017. Her research is grounded in Situational Action Theory (SAT) and as such, takes a highly analytical approach that integrates individually and environmentally focused explanations of human behaviour. She has a particular and critical interest in the data collection and analytical methodology required for the analysis of situational interaction (the interaction between people and settings) in action, and contributes to the development of the situational model of Situational Action Theory with regards parental monitoring.

 Key publications include:

Dr Hardie has published two books; ‘Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime’ (with Wikström, Oberwittler and Treiber; 2012) is an extensive study testing SAT using PADS+ data; and Studying Situational Interaction: Explaining Behaviour by Analysing Person-Environment Convergence" (2020), which details the appropriate methods for empirically testing proposed situational mechanisms. Her PhD research contributed to the development of the role of parental monitoring in the situational model of SAT, for which she was awarded the Nigel Walker Prize for distinctive scholarly contribution to the field of Criminology by the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Dr Hardie’s work has also appeared in The European Journal of Criminology, The Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Deviant Behaviour, Theory and Society, New Ideas in Psychology, The Encyclopaedia of Research Methods and Statistical Techniques in Criminology and Criminal Justice, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods, and ‘Schoolsweek’ practitioner magazine.

 

Founder & Co-Principal Investigator SATNAV project for schools

• Building effective behaviour management via moral development within strong moral contexts

• @SATNAVproject.bsky.social (X: @SATNAVproject)

• View SATNAV talk recording and recent press office article

Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge:

• Managing Editor, European Journal of Criminology 

• Senior Research & Innovation Associate, PADS+

• Affiliated Researcher, Centre for Analytic Criminology

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