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Dr. Gareth Addidle

Associate Professor in Criminology

Area
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences
E-mail
g.addidle@bradford.ac.uk
Dr. Gareth Addidle

Biography

Dr Gareth Addidle is an Associate Professor in Criminology at University of Bradford. A graduate of Glasgow Caledonian University, Doctorate from Plymouth University and previous academic roles at Open University, Plymouth University, University of Derby and Teesside University. Dr Addidle has worked with a number of police services across the UK and has been involved in research projects with Police Scotland (formerly Strathclyde Police), Devon and Cornwall Police, HMIC and, more recently, with Newcastle Business School and the House of Lords.

His current knowledge and expertise is in the area of vulnerability both in the context of policing and in relation to multi and intra-agency working practices and governance. He is co-editor of the ‘International Public Management Review’ and editorial board member for the ‘International Journal of Emergency Services’. He was the lead editor on the edited collection ‘Public Management and Vulnerability – Contextualising Change’ (Addidle, G and Liddle, J, 2020) and co- authored a book on ‘The role of HEIs (Universities) in the Vulnerability agenda’ (Liddle, J and Addidle, G, 2021). More recently, he has published work commissioned by Barnardos (July 2025) and Safer Mayors fund with West Yorkshire Police and Victim Support (Sept 2025).

Research

My research focuses on Vulnerability and the impacts on policing and society.  I have written widely on public management, vulnerability and policing, place leadership and vulnerability, vulnerability and police education, vulnerability and county lines, public health policing, collaborative partnership working, governance of crime and the crossovers between social and public policy.

Publications

Blog (1)

Book (2)

Book chapter (8)

  • Reframing ‘Place Leadership’: An analysis of Leadership in responding to the wicked issue of county lines and criminality within a context of post pandemic public health policing.

    Liddle, J and Addidle, G (2023) International Handbook on Leading in the Public Interest. Edward Elgar.

  • Relational Leadership for leading public services in the interests of the public

    Liddle, J and Addidle, G (2022) International Handbook on Leading in the Public Interest. Edward Elgar.

  • Vulnerability and Risk - A policing paradox

    Addidle, G (2022) Reimagining Public Sector Management - A new age of Renewal and Renaissance?. Emerald Publishing.

  • Introduction: Contested Perspectives on Vulnerability: Which Groups Are Vulnerable and Why?

    Addidle G and Liddle J (2020) Public Management and Vulnerability: Contextualising Change. In Addidle, G and Liddle, J editor(s) Taylor and Francis Publishers: Routledge.

  • Lesson Drawing for Theory, Policy and Practice: Developing a Future Research Agenda

    Liddle J and Addidle G (2020) Public Management and Vulnerability: Contextualising Change. Taylor and Francis Publishers: Routledge.

  • The Impact of Brexit on Vulnerability: Using a Theoretical Lens of Transnational and Local Linkages

    Liddle J and Addidle G (2020) Public Management and Vulnerability: Contextualising Change. Taylor and Francis Publishers: Routledge.

  • Seirbheis Phoilis na h-Alba’ Police Scotland: The Rationalisation of Chief Constables

    Addidle G (2017) Leading the Police: Chief Constables and their Autonomy 1835-2016. SOLON Routledge series.

  • The Penal Crisis’

    Addidle G (2015) Dictionary of Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Risk. In P. Taylor, K. Corteen, S. Morley editor(s) Policy Press.

Chapter in book (1)

  • The role of value-based leadership in multi-agency safeguarding responses to child sexual exploitation

    Gareth Addidle;Sarah Shorrock;Joyce Liddle (2025) Research Handbook on Leadership in Social Work and Social Care. In Robin Miller;Catherine Mangan;Helen Dickinson;Caroline Jackson editor(s) Edward Elgar Publishing.

Published report (2)