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Dr Elisabeth Carter BA HONS
MA, MA, PhD, PGLTHE, FHEA
ELISABETH CARTER
Dr Carter is a consultant, author, criminologist and forensic linguist. She is the UKs leading scholar of romance fraud, as well as an authority on all types of fraud; her research and expertise focuses on the language of manipulation and sits at the intersection of crime, language and the law. She was awarded the British Society of Criminology’s book prize and has an impressive body of peer-reviewed fraud research and authorship of public-facing guidance nationally and internationally in academia and practice. She produced the United Nations Handbook on Effective Strategies for the Prevention of Organized Fraud and she is a 5 times Outstanding Tacking Economic Crime Award winner, the gold standard across the public, private and third sector in recognising excellence in tackling economic crime.
She holds a Doctorate in Criminology, a Master’s degree in Criminology, a Master’s degree in Criminological Research and a BA (Hons) in Psycholinguistics and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her work is highly valued by financial institutions and the police, with many successful partnership initiatives with multiple police forces, banks, work with charities, local government and with clients in the online dating sector. She also engages regularly with the media, and is a regular part of the Scam Secrets BBC Sounds and Radio 4 hit series. She is also an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Kingston.
TIM DAY
Dr Day is a Fellow of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute. He has been specialising in fraud investigations with Local Authority law enforcement for 20 years where he has worked all aspects of criminal investigations and has a proven track record of successful prosecution of complex frauds. His award-winning practitioner-research is greatly valued by Police, Trading Standards and Adult Care Service practitioners alike, as well as academia and he has designed and delivered training to multiple Police forces and Trading Standards at National, Regional and Local level. He advises the home Office and since 2016 he has held the role of Lead Officer in Doorstep crime, Fraud and Consumer Vulnerability for the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
He has a doctorate in Criminal Justice Studies, a Master’s in Criminology and a BA (Hons) in Sociology and Criminology. He has published peer-reviewed work on fraud, rogue trading, distraction burglary, doorstep crime and has co-authored on the importance of appropriate language use in framing and discussing fraud. He presents his research at conferences and Universities throughout the country.
Dr Tim Day BA HONS, MA, DCATS, DCrimJ, CTSP