Professor Tim Hall

Biography

Tim Hall is Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Studies. He is a criminologist and human geographer with interests in crime, urban studies and globalisation, and teaches modules on issues including global crime, the geographies of crime, crime mapping and urban and rural studies.

Tim Hall's ongoing research is unified by an interest in the spatial aspects of illicit and illegal practices. These, he examines largely through the lens of economic geography, This research includes practices such as organised crime and cybercrime and the regulatory responses to these activities. He has looked particularly at the significance of criminal organisations in the contemporary global economy and has published extensively in these fields and presented the results of his research at a number of international conferences.

Tim is the author of a number of books including Urban Geography (Routledge 5th edition, 2017 with Heather Barrett) and The Economic Geographies of Organized Crime (Guilford, 2018) and the co-editor of books including An Introduction to Human Geography (Pearson, 5th edition 2016 with Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw and James Sidaway), The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development: Corrupt Places (Routledge, 2017, with Francesco Chiodelli and Ray Hudson) and A Research Agenda for Global Crime (Edward Elgar, 2019 with Vincenzo Scalia).

In February 2020 Prof Hall became a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. This reflects a twenty year plus track record as a textbook author and editor, pedagogic researcher, author and editor and curriculum leader. Prof Hall is one of only around 1100 Principal Fellows of the HEA in the UK and Internationally. 

Until August 2018 he was Head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences (now Social Sciences).

Areas of expertise

Geographies of Crime

Organised Crime

Cybercrime

Publications

Books

• Hall, T. and Scalia, V. (2019) A Research Agenda for Global Crime, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
• Hall, T. (2018) The Economic Geographies of Organized Crime, New York: Guilford
• Chiodelli, F., Hall, T. and Hudson, R. (2017) The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development: Corrupt Places, Abingdon: Routledge
• Hall, T. and Barrett, H. (2017) Urban Geography, (fifth edition) Abingdon: Routledge
• Haigh, M., Cotton, D. and Hall, T. (2016) Pedagogic Research in Geography Education, Abingdon: Routledge
• Daniels, P., Bradshaw, M., Hall, T., Shaw, D. and Sidaway, J. (eds) (2016) An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the Twenty First Century, Harlow: Pearson (fifth edition)
• Hall, T. and Barrett, H. (2012) Urban Geography, Abingdon: Routledge (Fourth edition)
• Hall, T., Hubbard, P. and Short, J.R. (2008) The Sage Companion to the City, London: Sage
• Miles, M., Hall, T. and Borden, I. (2003) The City Cultures Reader, London: Routledge (second edition)
• Hall, T. and Miles, M. (eds.) (2003) Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Urban Futures, London: Routledge
• Miles, M., Hall, T. and Borden, I. (2000) The City Cultures Reader, London: Routledge
• Hall, T. and Hubbard, P. (1998) The Entrepreneurial City: Geographies of Politics, Regime and Representation, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons

Journal articles

• Hall, T. and Ziemer, U. (2023) ‘Exploring the interactions between poverty, IT development and cybercrime: an Armenia case study’, Journal of Cyber Policy, 7, 3: 353-374 

• Hall, T. and Ziemer, U. (2023) ‘Cybercrime in Commonwealth West Africa and the regional cyber-criminogenic framework’, The Commonwealth Cybercrime Journal, 1, 1: 5-27 
• Lin, S., Sidaway, J., van Meeteren, M., Boyle, M. and Hall, T. (2023) 'Trajectories of geography and public policy', Space and Polity, 26, 2: 77-87
• Hall, T. and Moore-Cherry, N. (2022) ‘Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the Geography curriculum’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 46, 4: 489-494
• Hall T. (2021) ’40 Years of Neighbourhood Watch’, Town and Country Planning, November/December: 392-394
• Hall, T., Jones, P. and Nash-Williams, G. (2021) 'Closures, clusters and deprivation: the geographies of High Street betting shops in the early twenty-first century', Geography, 106, 3: 127-134
• Hall, T., Sanders, B., Bah, M., King, O. and Wigley, E. (2021) ‘Economic geographies of the illegal: the multiscalar production of cybercrime’, Trends in Organized Crime, 24, 2: 282-307
• Hall T., Jones P. and Nash-Williams, G. (2021) ‘Betting Shops and Planning Issues’, Town and Country Planning, January/February: 56-60
• Jones, P., Comfort, D. and Hall, T. (2021) ‘Betting shops in the public eye: a commentary’, Journal of Public Affairs, 21, 1: 1-5 
• Jones, P., Hall, T. and Comfort, D. (2020) ‘The changing business environment for betting shops’, International Journal of Management Cases, 22, 3: 5-12
• Hall, T. (2020) ‘After the rural idyll: representations of the British countryside as a non-idyllic environment’, Geography, 105, 1: 6-17
• Hall, T. (2019) ‘Deploying plural drug policies after the war on drugs: a geographical perspective’, Journal of Drug Policy Analysis, 12, 1: 1-14
• Boyle, M., Hall, T. and Sidaway, J. (2019) ‘Reappraising David Livingstone’s The Geographical Tradition: a quarter of a century on’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44, 3: 438-443
• Sidaway J. and Hall T. (2018) ‘Geography textbooks, pedagogy and disciplinary traditions’, Area 50, 1: 34-42
• Hall T, McGuiness, M, Parker, C. and Toms, P. (2018) ‘Student experiences of multidisciplinarity in the undergraduate Geography curriculum’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 42, 2: 220-237
• Hall T (2015) ‘Reframing photographic research methods in Human Geography: a long-term reflection’ Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 39, 3: 328-342
• Haigh M, Cotton D and Hall T (2015) ‘Pedagogic research in geography higher education’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 39, 3: 299-312
• Hall T., Toms P., McGuinnes M., Parker C. and Roberts, N. (2015) ‘Where’s the geography department? The changing administrative place of geography in British universities’, Area, 47, 1: 56-64
• Hall T (2014) ‘Making their own futures? Research change and diversity amongst British human geographers’, Geographical Journal, 180, 1: 39-51
• Haigh M., Hall T. and Cotton D. (2013) ‘Researching communicated geographies’ (Symposium introduction) Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 37, 2: 147-151
• Hall, T. (2013) ‘Geographies of the illicit: globalisation and organised crime’, Progress in Human Geography, 37 3: 366-385
• Hall, T. (2010) ‘Economic geography and organised crime: a critical review’, Geoforum, 41, 6: 841-845
• Hall, T. (2010) ‘Where the money is: the geographies of organised crime’, Geography, 95, 1: 4-13
• Hall, T. (2009) ‘The camera never lies: photographic research methods in Human Geography’ Journal of Geography in Higher Education 33, 3: 453-462
• Hall, T. (2008) ‘Contesting the urban renaissance: journalism and the postindustrial city’ Geography, 93, 3: 148-157
• Hall, T. (2007) ‘Artful cities’ Geography Compass, 1: 1376-1392
• Fuller, M., Healey, M., Bradley, A. and Hall, T. (2004) ‘Barriers to learning: a systematic study of the experience of disabled students in one university’, Studies in Higher Education, 29, 3: 303-318
• Hall, T. Healey, M and Harrison, M.E (2002) ‘Disabled students and fieldwork: discourses of exclusion and inclusion’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS, 27, 2: 213-231

Policy briefs

• Hall, T. and Ziemer, U. (2024) Tackling the Growth of Cybercrime in Developing and Emerging Nations. Read it online: Hall and Ziemer 2024 Cybercrime Policy Brief.

Book chapters

• Hall, T. and Hudson, R. (2021) 'The economic geographies of transnational organized crime', in Allum, F. and Gilmor, S. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime, Second Edition Abingdon: Routledge
• Boyle, M., Hall, T., Lin, S., Sidaway, J. D. and van Meeteren, M. (2019) ‘Geography and public policy’, in Kobayashi, A. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Amsterdam: Elsevier
• Hall T and Scalia V (2019) 'Thinking through global crime and its research agendas', in Hall, T. and Scalia, V. (eds.) A Research Agenda for Global Crime, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
• Chiodelli, F., Hall, T., Hudson, R. and Moroni, S. (2017) ‘Grey governance and the development of cities and regions: the variable relationship between (il)legal and (il)licit’, in  Chiodelli, F., Hall, T. and Hudson, R. (eds.) The Illicit and Illegal in the Development and Governance of Cities and Regions: Corrupt Places, Abingdon: Routledge
• Sidaway, J., Bradshaw, M., Daniels, P., Hall, T. and Shaw, D. (2016) ‘Geography: finding your way in the world’, in Daniels, P., Bradshaw, M., Shaw, D., Sidaway, J. and Hall, T. (eds) An Introduction to Human Geography, Harlow: Pearson (fifth edition)
  
• Hall, T. and Barrett, H. (2016) ‘Cities: urban worlds’ in Daniels, P., Bradshaw, M., Shaw, D., Sidaway, J. and Hall, T. (eds) An Introduction to Human Geography, Harlow: Pearson (fifth edition)
  
• Hall, T. (2016) ‘Biographies of illicit super-wealth’ in Hay, I. and Beaverstock, J. (eds) Handbook of Wealth and the Super-Rich, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
• Hall, T. and Hubbard, P. (2014) ‘Birmingham needs you / you need Birmingham: cities as actors, actors in cities’, in Conzen, M. and Larkham, P. (eds) Shapers of Urban Form: Explorations in Morphological Agency, Abingdon: Routledge
• Hall, T. and Barrett, H. (2012) ‘Cities: urban worlds’ in Daniels, P., Bradshaw, M., Shaw, D. and Sidaway, J. (eds) An Introduction to Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century, Harlow: Pearson (fourth edition)
• Hall, T. (2012) ‘The geography of Transnational Organised Crime: spaces, networks and flows’ in Allam, F. and Gilmor, S. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime, Abingdon: Routledge
• Bradley, A. and Hall, T. (2006) ‘The festival phenomenon: festivals and events and the promotion of small urban areas’ in Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (eds) Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis, London: Routledge
• Healey, M., Bradley, A., Fuller, M. and Hall, T. (2006) ‘Listening to students: the experiences of learning at university’ in Adams, M. and Brown, S. (eds) Towards Inclusive Learning in Higher Education, London: Routledge
• Hall, T. (2004) ‘Public art, civic identity and the new Birmingham’ in Kennedy. W. G. (ed.) Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration, London: Spon
• Hall, T. (2004) ‘Art and urban regeneration’ in Pinder, D. et al. (eds) Practicising Cultural Geography, London: Arnold