Stan Gilmour
Professor Stan Gilmour is an honorary Professor at Keele University, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, and a Global Strategic Consultant with over 30 years of experience bridging policing practice and academic research. His work focuses on data collaboration, violence prevention, criminal justice reform, and neuro-disability within justice populations, with particular expertise in supporting children and young adults in the criminal justice system.
Stan brings a distinctive trans-disciplinary approach to research and policy development, combining verified evidence from criminology, public health, social policy, and neuroscience.
His current work centres on developing frameworks for biographical criminology, examining how institutional failures during critical developmental periods create cumulative harm that becomes neurologically embedded and subsequently used to justify further criminalisation.
Throughout his policing career (1993-2023), Stan held specialist roles in homicide investigation, counterterrorism, public protection, and violence reduction, including serving as Director of the Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit. This operational foundation now informs his academic and consultancy work with organisations including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on international frameworks for criminal justice transformation, and he founded Prevention Works to translate prevention evidence into practice internationally. Closer to home, he works with grassroots organisations and social justice organisations through Oxon Advisory, where he provides consultancy support and training on a wide range of community safety, health, and wellbeing topics.
Stan collaborates extensively on research examining traumatic brain injury in justice-involved populations. As an RSA Fellow, he hosts Oxford City Conversations focused on building social connections and exploring sustainable approaches to community wellbeing. His work emphasises multi-agency data collaboration, trauma-informed practice, and systems transformation grounded in rigorous evidence rather than assumption.