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Dr Myrna Papadouka

DoP - Law & Social Sciences(Criminology & Sociology)

Myrna Papadouka

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Law and Social Sciences

  • Location London

Research activities

Research Methods (quantitative and qualitative), Research and Analysis of Big Data in Social Research (Big Data in Social Research, Text Mining, and Data Analysis),聽

Organised Crime, Human Trafficking, Migrant Smuggling, Cyber-Societies and Crime


Current Teaching

Current Teaching:聽

3rd year CRM3270/ CRM3271 Dissertation (co-module leader)

Master鈥檚 level聽CRM4615 Cybercrime聽and Society (module leader)

Master鈥檚 level聽CRM4630 Text Mining and Analysis聽(module leader)

Previous Teaching:

路听听听听听听1styear CRM1277 Quantitative Investigation of crime (module leader)

路听听听听听听1styear CRM1420 Skills and Methods (seminartutor)

路听听听听听听1styear CRM1400 Crime in Social Context (co-moduleleader)

路听听听听听听2ndyear SOC2270 Approaches to Research in the Social Sciences (co-module leader)

路听听听听听听2ndyear CRM2280 Cybercrime in ContemporaryCriminology (seminar tutor)

路听听听听听听3rdyear CRM3580 Dissertation (moduleleader)

路听听听听听听3rdyear CRM3287 Transnational Crime (seminartutor)

路听听听听听听惭补蝉迟别谤鈥檚濒别惫别濒 CRM4810 Researching Cybercrime (module leader)


Biography

Dr Myrna Papadouka is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology. She joined the Department of Law and Social Sciences (former Department of Sociology and Criminology)聽at 探花社区 University in September 2018 and since her appointment has held the position of Programme Leader for BA Criminology programme (2020-2021) and has been the Programme Leader for MSc in Cybercrime and Digital Investigations programme since September 2021.

Her research interests include organized crime, human trafficking, drugs in the Dark Net and conventional markets, big data and text analysis methodologies.聽

Prior to joining the institute she worked as a Research Consultant 鈥� Business Analyst at the London Borough of Camden, as a Research Support Advisor at the University of Cambridge and Research Analyst in Organised Crime at the National Security and Resilience Studies group at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

Myrna holds a PhD in Sociology from University of North Texas, USA, where her dissertation examined the discourse surrounding the issue of human trafficking by journalists and their audiences from a variety of British online newspapers by applying big data techniques. She also holds an MSc in Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Research from the University of Surrey, UK and a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Sociology from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece.聽

Publications