Nick Lord is a Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Manchester. He is Director of the Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS), which is a focal point for research that explores aspects of trust and security in the digital world and delivers the Digital Futures research platform theme Digital Trust and Security. His research contributions centre on three inter-related areas of scholarship: (Inter)national corruption and fraud, and their regulation by criminal justice and state regulatory systems, as well as potential victims and third-party actors (business and individuals); Exploring empirically and conceptually the organisation of serious crimes for gain, in particular ‘white-collar crimes’, ‘organised crimes’, illicit financial flows and money laundering, as well as their digital underpinnings; and, the transfer of social scientific modes of analysis and thinking into the operational responses of fraud enforcement authorities.

Staff profile: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas.lord