Adam is an Associate Professor of Law and is currently Programme Leader of the M Law Exempting degree. Since 2010 he has also been Deputy Director of the Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies (about which you can . Adam has published widely in the field of criminal justice with a particular focus on; criminal law reform, expert evidence in criminal proceedings, “criminal Justice information” (including criminal records and forensic bio-information) and international criminal justice co-operation. He is currently involved in a NordForsk / ESRC funded research project: Police Detectives on the TOR-network (A Study on Tensions Between Privacy and Crime Fighting).
Adam is also interested in legal pedagogy and in particular curriculum design, peer mentoring and feedback. Adam has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2009 and Case Note Editor of the Journal of Criminal Law (SAGE Publishing) since 2012.
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