Mike Nellis

Mike Nellis
Trustee

Mike Nellis is Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He is a former social worker with young offenders in London and undertook a PhD on this subject at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge.

For many years he was involved in the qualifying training of Probation Officers at the University of Birmingham. He has written widely on aspects of probation and penal reform and particularly on electronic monitoring and surveillance, and was involved for more than a decade in the EM conferences organised by the CEP. He acted as an independent adviser to the Council of Europe’s PC-CP on an ethical recommendation for EM. He has served on working parties about EM for the Scottish Government and the Pew Centre in the USA, and remains a member of the Electronic Monitoring Advisory Group in the Ministry of Justice.

He is currently focussed on the likely consequences of Artificial Intelligence  (AI) for probation and electronic monitoring.