Miss Elena Martellozzo

Biography

Dr Elena Martellozzo is a Professor in Criminology and Associate Director at the Centre for Child Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS) at Middlesex University. Elena has been working in the area of cyber violence for 15 years and is now recognised as a world leading expert in the area, focusing primarily on online harms, online safety and is involved in policy debates at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. One of Elena’s key focuses is to develop innovative research and sharing her findings in international fora. She continually attracts research funding in highly sensitive areas with government departments including the police, the Internet Watch Foundation, the NSPCC, the Children Commissioner for England, the Home Office. She has acted as an advisor on child online protection and online violence against women and girls to governments and practitioners in Italy (since 2004) and Bahrain (2016) to support the development of national child internet safety policy frameworks. Elena is a lead researcher in the area and has led a number of high impact project, nationally and internationally. As a published peer-reviewed author, and well-established national and international Criminologist, she is regularly invited as a speaker by the BBC, New York Post, Sunday Times, The Guardian, Channel 4, Radio 4, ITV, The Times Radio. 

Teaching

I have twenty years of teaching experience in criminology, victimology and cyber crime. I have been invited as a guest lecturer by many universities both in the UK (Essex, City, Kingston, Leicester, Sterling, Greenwich, LSE), internationally (Universities of LUMSA, Venice, Vatican University, L’Aquila, Florence in Italy; Warsaw in Poland; Kigali in Rwanda; Dubai in the UEA; Seoul in South Korea), where I was given the opportunity not only to share my knowledge but also, in many cases, inspire students to continue their studies to a higher level, or develop them professionally.