About the European Network for Open Criminology

The European Network for Open Criminology (ENOC) brings together criminologists and other researchers interested in open science. We foster and encourage practices that embrace openness, integrity and reproducibility throughout the research cycle, including:

• collaborative working and sharing of research methods,
• use and development of open access software,
• making analytic code and research materials freely available online, and
• publishing research outputs (e.g., articles, books, data, peer reviews, software) in open access so anyone, from any part of the world, can view and download them without the need to log in or pay.

We are a working group of the European Society of Criminology, Europe’s largest association of crime researchers.

Our co-chairs

ENOC is lead by three co-chairs.

Dr Amy Nivette
Utrecht University

Dr David Buil Gil
University of Manchester

Prof Iain Brennan
University of Hull

Open Criminology Outreach

We have created a register of researchers willing to deliver presentations on open criminology. If you would like to host a session on open criminology at a departmental or institutional meeting, please get in contact with:

• Matt Ashby, University College London, UK
• Iain Brennan, University of Hull, UK
• Charles Lanfear, University of Cambridge, UK
• Torbjørn Skardhamar, University of Oslo, Norway
• Isabelle van der Vegt, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Members

ENOC is a group of researchers from 13 different European countries, including:

• Matt Ashby, University College London, UK
• Wim Bernasco, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Netherlands
• Iain Brennan, University of Hull, UK
• Lucia Brisudová, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
• David Buil Gil, The University of Manchester, UK
• Leticia Couto, University of Hull, UK
• Linda Geven, Leiden University, Netherlands
• Sebastian L. Kübel, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany
• Kuralarasan Kumar, Ghent University, Belgium
• Charles Lanfear, University of Cambridge, UK
• Samuel Langton, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Netherlands
• Carly Lightowlers, University of Liverpool, UK
• Ian Marder, Maynooth University, Ireland
• Asier Moneva, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
• Amy Nivette, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Jose Pina-Sánchez, University of Leeds, UK
• Martí Rovira, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Stijn Ruiter, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Torbjørn Skardhamar, University of Oslo, Norway
• Alex Trinidad, University of Cologne, Germany
• Ferhat Tura, Bournemouth University, UK
• Isabelle van der Vegt, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Yuji Zocatelli Hashimoto, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

More about us

You can read our official Terms of Reference as a working group of the European Society of Criminology.

You can find the minutes of our annual open meetings below:

• 6th September 2023, Florence, Italy

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