Kevin Bampton

Kevin was born in July, 1967 in Kenya to a British father and an Indian mother from Gujarat. He attended the University of Birmingham from 1985 to 1988 and obtained an LLB in Law. He then worked as a litigation assistant in financial services in Holborn in London. He then applied for a role with the British Foreign Office as a legal education advisor for the British Council.[2] He then worked for the Political Affairs Department of the United Nations in Malawi during the 1994 elections after the end of the Hastings Banda government. He then returned to the Foreign Office and worked in Poland, Botswana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and took part in a judicial exchange in France. After this he became a research fellow within the department of government at Leeds University. He then, in 1996, became a lecturer in law at the University of Derby teaching on the University's single Law Course within the school of business, becoming head of law subjects in 2003. He taught Public Law as well as Medical Law and International Law. Much of his research, rather than being concentrated around the publication of academic articles, was around drafting and writing legislation and of various constitutions.

Alongside his teaching role he took part in various external projects for the European Commission, The World Bank as well as the University of Nottingham advising on primary care within prison education. He also served as a strategic advisor for the Police Federation of England and Wales and as an independent scrutineer for the Crown Prosecution Service, as well as advising various security and intelligence agencies. In 2007 he became Head of the School of Law and Criminology and in 2015 was made Professor of Law and founded the International Policing and Justice Institute at the University. In this he worked on the training of the Police in Malaysia, Qatar and Dubai and also gave lectures in Bangladesh and undertook partnership visits to India on behalf of the University. He also served as an advisor to the judiciary of Nigeria and visited Switzerland and New York for conferences surrounding the development and implementation of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. He served as programme leader on the MSc in Computer Crime and also delivered external courses on Data Protection.

In 2017 Kevin moved to become Head of the Law School, and Professor of Public Law, at De Montfort University.[3] In this role he trained officers from the British Border Force agency in law as well as delivering lectures in Cyber Crime on the criminal liability of robots.

In 2020 he moved from academia to become the Chief Executive of the British Occupational Hygiene Society and continues to steer it through the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]