Dr Beth Hardie

Beth Hardie worked with Professor P-O Wikström from 2004 - 2020 on the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). She was a research associate and also a member of the Centre for Analytic Criminology at the University of Cambridge. She conducted the stand-alone 2005 Peterborough Community Survey (and oversaw the 2012 follow-up), and went on to conduct many fieldwork interviews with the PADS+ participants. From 2006, as the Research Manager of PADS+, Dr Hardie was responsible for fieldwork staff and the collection, quality and management of PADS+ data, as well contributing to the development and application of the research instruments used and devised by PADS+. Her varied work since 2004 on this multi-method multi-level longitudinal study means she is experienced in developmental and social ecological research methods and analytical techniques, as well as the operational demands of running a world-class large-scale longitudinal research study. Dr Hardie is also responsible for the analysis and presentation of PADS+ spatial data using GIS, the training of international collaborative and replica study staff, and is jointly responsible for the co-ordination of the I-SAT (international comparison of tests of Situational Action Theory) project.

Beth Hardie graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in Social and Political Sciences in 2004. She has an academic background in the social sciences with a focus on developmental and social psychology and criminology. Her research is grounded in an analytical approach that integrates individually and environmentally focused explanations of human behaviour, including crime. Dr Hardie was awarded a PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge in 2017. Her research reflects a particular and critical interest in the data collection and analytical methodology required for the analysis of situational interaction (the interaction between people and settings) in action, and contributes to the development of the situational model of Situational Action Theory with regards parental monitoring.