Fay Sweeting is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Bournemouth University. Prior to joining academia, she was a Dorset police officer (2004–2021). In 2017, she completed her MSc studies in investigative forensic psychology at Bournemouth University (BU) and stayed on to complete a funded Ph.D. She is currently a member of two National Police Chief Council working groups (abuse of position and internal sexual misconduct) and the HMIC academic research group. Her main research area concerns sexual
misconduct within the police, inclusive of abuse of position for a sexual purpose as well as internal sexism, bullying and misogyny.
