Professor Ian Loader, University of Oxford

Professor Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology and Professorial Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. One of Britain's most eminent criminologists, his career has spanned policing, penal policy and public attitudes to crime. In recent years he has turned his attention to a radical new question: what does the car tell us about crime, harm, and justice? His Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, running until 2028, pursues the project 'Car harms: Automobility and the objects of criminology', and his landmark paper 'Beyond Motonormative Punishment', published in the British Journal of Criminology in 2026, is already reshaping how we think about road safety, law, and regulation…