Stephen is a Senior Lecturer in law at Aston University His research looks at the use of expert evidence in social justice arenas. 

• Social Justice
• Public decision making
• Risk assessment and the use of AI
• Corpus Linguistics
• Law and language
• Expert Evidence
• Public Family Law – Child Protection, Adult Safeguarding
• Theoretical approaches
• Trans-disciplinary framework – trans-critical analysis

He is the Principal Investigator on the ESRC Transformative project “The ‘risk of risk’: remodelling artificial intelligence algorithms for predicting child abuse”. Grant Reference: ES/R00983X/1.

Stephen is also Co-Investigator on the Nuffield foundation project “Investigating the reasons for the rise in Care Order Applications in the Family Courts”. Grant Reference: JUS/43090.