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Dr Kitty Lymperopoulou is a Senior Quantitative Research Fellow and ADR UK Research Fellow within the School of Health and the School of Society and Culture. Her research examines social and spatial inequalities particularly in the context of ethnicity, migration, and crime and justice. She is currently working on an ESRC ADR UK fellowship examining cumulative disadvantage in the Criminal Justice System and is part of a team of researchers developing a new classification of English coastal communities. Kitty joined the University of Plymouth in 2022 as a Research Fellow on the ESRC funded project ‘Gypsy and Travellers experiences of crime and justice since the 1960’s’ after completing an ESRC ADR UK fellowship at Manchester Metropolitan University examining ethnic inequalities in the Criminal Justice System. She previously held post doc positions at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester where she also worked as a lecturer. She was awarded a PHD in Social Statistics from the University of Manchester in 2015.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Cumulative disadvantage: Ethnic inequalities in criminal court proceedings in England and Wales
Lymperopoulou, K., 28 Feb 2026, In: The British Journal of Criminology. azaf113.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ethnicity, gender, remand, plea and sentencing
Lymperopoulou, K., 2025, Swindon: ADR UK. (ADR UK Data Insights)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Ethnic inequalities in sentencing: Evidence from the crown court in England and Wales
Lymperopoulou, K., 1 Sept 2024, In: The British Journal of Criminology. 64, 5, p. 1189-1210 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“It’s not because they’re Gypsy”: Practitioners perspectives of Gypsies, Travellers and Crime and Justice
Booth, R., Koral, K. & Lymperopoulou, K., 29 Nov 2024, In: Criminology and Criminal Justice.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ethnic Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System: A policy briefing by EQUAL
Lymperopoulou, K., 15 Jan 2023, London: Action for Race Equality. 9 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Examining Crime in Coastal Versus Non-Coastal Areas in England: A Spatial Error Regression Analysis of Ecological Predictors: Frontiers of Criminology
Agarwal, S. (Contributor), Lymperopoulou, K. (Speaker), Asthana, S. (Contributor), Gibson, A. (Contributor), Parker, L. (Contributor), Hao, H. (Contributor), Wei, Y. (Contributor) & Moon, G. (Contributor)
9 Sept 2026Activity: Contribution to engagement › Public talk, presentation or panel discussion