Dr Sara Correia-Hopkins

Lecturer in Cyber Threats

Law

s.correia@swansea.ac.uk

Office - 103
First Floor
Richard Price Building
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0261-6872

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About

Sara joined the School of Law in August 2020. Her research interests crime and victimisation in the digital world, policing, tech law and legal tech, as well as data ethics. She has experience using qualitative and quantitative methods and is passionate about the benefits of working in partnership with colleagues and stakeholders, to harness the benefits of mixed methods and interdisciplinary research.

Sara holds a BSc in Politics and International Relations and a Graduate Diploma in Law. She has also undertaken an MSc by Research on counter-terrorism policing. In addition, she has worked as a researcher within industry and academia, has interned with the UK’s Home Office tutored for five years in both Law and Criminology.

Her Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Ph.D. project examined vulnerability and (repeat) victimisation to fraud and computer crimes, in collaboration with the Southern Wales Regional Organised Crime Unit.

In her spare time, Sara volunteers with the Welsh charity Asylum Justice and produces and co-presents the Digital Faultlines podcast (previously known as the Swansea Cyber Law and Security podcast).

Areas Of Expertise

Fraud
Computer crime
Victims of crime
Tech law
Policing
Data ethics

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Cybercrime law
Criminal law
European Union law
LegalTech
Research methods
Victimology

Research Award Highlights

Publications

Research Highlights

Correia-Hopkins, S. & Macdonald, S. (n.d.) Data Protection, Security and Storage. Routledge Handbook of Online Violent Extremism Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66212
Correia-Hopkins, S. & Correia-Hopkins, C. (2024). Restorative Versus Retributive Justice: Themes from How to Get Away with Murder. The Works of Shonda Rhimes (pp. 110-119). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501399695.0016, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66209
Oostendorp Godfrey, J. & Correia-Hopkins, S. (2023). The Swansea Cyber Clinic Project: A Stakeholder Report
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64134
Correia-Hopkins, S. (n.d.) A framework for measuring the quality of police recorded cybercrime data, illustrated through a UK/USA comparison. In Laura Huey and David Buil-Gill (Ed.), The Crime Data Handbook Bristol University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62010
Correia-Hopkins, S. (2022). Making the most of cybercrime and fraud crime report data: a case study of UK Action Fraud. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(1)
https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1721, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59343

All Research

Journal Articles

Correia-Hopkins, S. (2022). Making the most of cybercrime and fraud crime report data: a case study of UK Action Fraud. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(1)
https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1721, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59343
Correia-Hopkins, S. (2019). Responding to victimisation in a digital world: a case study of fraud and computer misuse reported in Wales. Crime Science, 8(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-019-0099-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50372
Correia-Hopkins, S., Macdonald, S., Correia, S., & Watkin, A. (2019). Regulating terrorist content on social media: automation and the rule of law. International Journal of Law in Context, 15(2), 183-197.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744552319000119, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45969
Awan, I. & Correia-Hopkins, S. (2014). Terrorism research: understanding Muslim communities. Criminal Justice Matters, 96(1), 24-25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09627251.2014.926069, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56972

Book Chapters

Correia-Hopkins, S. & Correia-Hopkins, C. (2024). Restorative Versus Retributive Justice: Themes from How to Get Away with Murder. The Works of Shonda Rhimes (pp. 110-119). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501399695.0016, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66209
Correia-Hopkins, S. & Macdonald, S. (n.d.) Data Protection, Security and Storage. Routledge Handbook of Online Violent Extremism Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66212
Correia-Hopkins, S. (n.d.) A framework for measuring the quality of police recorded cybercrime data, illustrated through a UK/USA comparison. In Laura Huey and David Buil-Gill (Ed.), The Crime Data Handbook Bristol University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62010

Conference Contributions

Correia-Hopkins, S. (2020). Patterns of online repeat victimisation and implications for crime prevention. In 2020 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)IEEE.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ecrime51433.2020.9493258, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ecrime51433.2020.9493258

Other Research Outputs

Oostendorp Godfrey, J. & Correia-Hopkins, S. (2023). The Swansea Cyber Clinic Project: A Stakeholder Report
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64134

Supervision

Untitled (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Michelle Coleman
Untitled (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Gideon Calder
(In)visible Women: Experiences of and Responses to Gender-Based Online Harms (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Patrick Bishop

Taught Modules

LAAM12 Research Methods and Ethics

In a world which is both increasingly driven by data and facing the challenges of mis/disinformation, whether specializing in Human Rights, cyber crime/security, terrorism or other global challenges, it is increasingly important to have a sound understanding of what, how and why research is carried out across these topic areas. Policy makers at international and national level, industry, law enforcement and third sector organisations, among others, all need civil society and employees which not only understand the substantive matters they tackle, but also have the skills to think critically about the evidence-base which informs decision making. This module focuses on introducing the skills necessary to effectively research these contemporary issues, and being able to assess, evaluate and communicate the strengths and limitations of different research methods and outputs, in a variety of contexts (e.g., the public, private or third sector economies). The module will seek to develop student understanding of research methods and ethics, enable students to evaluate research outputs. Throughout, it will encourage students to reflect on the application of research findings in developing law and policy in key areas including human rights, cyber crime and terrorism. Through this module, students will be equipped with the necessary critical and analytic skills to design, implement and disseminate the findings of a research project, as well as understand the characteristics of a good research proposal.
LANM10 EU Law

The module will cover the EU origins and institutions, the sources of law including EU retained law and its enforcement and amendment in the UK following Brexit.

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