Dr Anita Lavorgna

Associate Professor in Criminology

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Anita is an Associate Professor within the Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology at the University of Southampton.

She joined Southampton in 2015, after one year lecturing at the University of Wolverhampton.

Anita is currently leading funded research projects on medical mis/disinformation, tech resistance, and risky sharenting practices.

She welcome enquiries about potential PhD supervision in the following areas:
• Cybercrimes and cyber harms
• Health-related information pollution and health frauds

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Research interests

Cyber harms and cybercrimes,
information pollution and its propagation online,
ethics in online research,
sociotechnical approaches in online research.

Research projects:

FloraGuard - Tackling the illegal trade in endangered plants
ProTechThem - Building Awareness for Safer and Technology-Savvy Sharenting

Research project(s)

Internet-facilitated wildlife trafficking

Anita is member of the ERGO Review Panel for the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Faculty Concordat Champion.

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Conferences

Middleton, S., Lavorgna, A., Neumann, G. K., & Whitehead, D. (2020). Information extraction from the long tail: A socio-technical AI approach for criminology investigations into the online illegal plant trade. 82-88. Paper presented at 1st International Workshop on Socio-technical AI Systems for Defence, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Middleton, S., Lavorgna, A., & McAlister, R. (2020). STAIDCC20: 1st International Workshop on Socio-technical AI Systems for Defence, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. 78-79. Paper presented at 1st International Workshop on Socio-technical AI Systems for Defence, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity, Southampton, United Kingdom.

Letters/Editorials

Allum, F., Lavorgna, A., & Zabyelina, Y. (2016). Editorial. The European Review of Organised Crime, 3(1). Editorial_13.pdf" class="link">http://sgocnet.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/1-Editorial_13.pdf
Carrapico, H., & Lavorgna, A. (2015). Editorial. The European Review of Organised Crime, 2(2), 1-5.
Allum, F., Lavorgna, A., & Zabyelina, Y. (2014). Editorial. The European Review of Organised Crime, 1(2), 1-4.

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Anita teaches criminological theories and global criminology to undergraduate students, and cybercrimes to postgraduate students. She is a recurrent guest lecturer on cybercrimes and serious and organised crime.

In 2016, Anita won a SAGE Junior Faculty Professional Development Teaching Award.

Dr Anita Lavorgna
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Room Number: 58/4058

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