The research completed in this project was limited due to the premature end of the project. (The project was from 22/05/2017-01/10/2017). The Marie Curie Fellow (MCF) was offered a new position the week this project started. The MCF worked his noticed period with the host institution. The Marie Curie Fellow was offered both promotion and the opportunity to manage and lead on his research project. Therefore the project lasted only for the time period stated above.
The project results achieved in this time were limited, but we (the MCF and supervisor) managed to complete a Literature Review (work package 1) and Case Reconstruction (work package 2). These work packages meant the project achieved Deliverable 1.
Due to the early termination of the project no interviews were conducted and Milestone 1 was in the fifth month of this project with only four months completed. Therefore, apart from the WP2 and WP2 above there is little exploitable data.
However, even though the project ended prematurely the Mare Curie Fellow and supervisor plan to build on this work and publish articles in the future. Therefore, whilst the data obtained in the time period is limited, it is intended that exploitable data from this project and that of a previous project conducted by the Marie Curie Fellow will lead to future presentations and publications with the supervisor.
WP1: The Mare Curie Fellow and supervisor engaged in the literature review. The Marie Curie Fellow's expertise is in cyber crime and cyber security and conducted a systematic widespread international review of all empirical and theoretical literature on cyber crime/security and organised crime and its use of technology to commit crimes, but with specific reference to the online gambling sector.
This literature review is to form the basis of future conference presentation(s) and publications.
Even though the project lasted for only four months some impact was achieved. It was clear that by securing a Marie Curie Fellowship it helped raise the Research Fellow’s profile which in-turn helped secured a lead role in a major research project and new position of employment. The success of this project, even if only approximately four months, helped progressing the Fellow from his then current role to one of leading on a cyber crime project in the Netherlands where he can build his own team of researchers. In future it is expected that the Fellow will successfully apply for EU research projects based on his Mare Curie Fellows involvement
A presentation by the Marie Curie Fellow and colleagues from a different, prior research project, presented a paper at the European Criminology Conference, in Cardiff 2017, which formed a basis for the case reconstructions (WP2) and data from an earlier project on organised crime/cyber crime completed by the Marie Curie Fellow. Therefore this presentation made reference to a previous project and the Marie Curie Fellowship project.
This project then can claim two clear impacts in a brief period of time: (1) Marie Curie Fellowship awards help raise the profile of researchers and mature into experts of the future; this is the case here as the Marie Curie Fellowship now has his own team, which he is supervising, and is lead investigator on a four year research project. (2) The presentation of one conference paper (and future publication(s) is indication of impact.
The project has not currently managed to publish.
