Origins
Founded in 2021 by academic staff and PhD students, MONI builds on The University of Manchester’s strong international reputation. The group also collaborates with EUROC (the European Society of Criminology’s Working Group on Organisational Crime), which now includes more than 190 members worldwide.
Members
Professor of Criminology at The University of Manchester. He is a co-founder of the MONI group, and specialises in researching financial, white-collar and organisational crimes.
Senior Lecturer in Criminology. Her research focuses primarily on illicit finance and its regulation, and the role of/responses to ‘professional enablers’.
Senior Lecturer in Criminology at The University of Manchester, specialising in white-collar and organisational crime research. Jon is a co-founder and the coordinator of MONI.
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow based in the department of Criminology at the University of Manchester. Her research interests lie in commodities-related harms and crimes.
Research Fellow in the Centre for Digital Trust and Society. Navigating AI/ML-based solutions for financial crime compliance.
Research Associate and PhD candidate in Criminology with interests in white-collar and economic crime, governance, and related social harms.
Lecturer in Microcredentials and PhD candidate in Criminology funded by the ESRC. Her research focuses on the interpretation and organisation of anti-money laundering compliance within the financial sector.
PhD candidate and banking industry practitioner in financial crime prevention and detection. Her research focuses on socio-economic structures of payment fraud and and its regulation.
Jing Wei is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on deterrence of commercial bribery in China, employing vignette-based factorial surveys and qualitative interviews.
PhD candidate in Criminology with interests in organisational and economic crime, corporate accountability, compliance in digital society, exploitation, and interdisciplinary approaches.
PhD candidate in Criminology. Her research interests include labour exploitation in the fashion supply chain, corporate social responsibility and ESG frameworks.
ESRC-funded PhD candidate in Criminology at the University of Manchester. Their research examines pig-butchering investment fraud and the organisation of cyber-enabled financial crime.