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Elliot Doornbos

Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Staff Group(s)
Criminology and Criminal Justice

Role

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Career overview

Elliot Doornbos is a Senior Lecturer of Criminology in the Criminal Justice Department, In addition to his teaching and research roles Elliot is module leader for the year three module Green Criminology He is also a supervisor for third year dissertations. Elliot is currently studying for his doctorate at Nottingham Trent University, which focuses on the trafficking of whale shark fins.

Modules taught on:

Green Criminology (Module Leader)

Drugs Crime and Justice

Serious and Organised Crime

Research areas

Elliot's research interests include:

  • The protection of endangered species and species justice.
  • Green Criminology.
  • Transnational organised crime.

Publications

Whitehead, J. and Doornbos, E. (2026) “Indigenous Transnational Environmental Justice: The Case of Aotearoa”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 15(1), pp. 69-82. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.4186.

Nurse, A., & Doornbos, E. (2025). Insect Trafficking: A Green Criminological Perspective. Laws, 14(5), 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws14050074

Munk, T, Doornbos, E and Mahoney, I. (2025). New forms of civic resistance and activism. Abingdon: Routledge.

Doornbos, E. (2024) “In the interest of hippos: Reflecting on the interests of the Colombian hippo population and their management”, Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Bogotá, Colombia, 48(187), pp. 413–416. https://doi.org/10.18257/raccefyn.2648

Doornbos, E. (2023) Colombian Hippos and Species Management: Exploring the Legal Case Surrounding the Management and Control of the Colombian Hippos from a Species Justice Perspective. Laws, 12, 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws12020029

Op-Eds:

Doornbos, E (2026)  Seizure of 2,000 ants at Nairobi airport highlights the hidden scale of insect trafficking. The Conversation (Online) available at: https://theconversation.com/seizure-of-2-000-ants-at-nairobi-airport-highlights-the-hidden-scale-of-insect-trafficking-279571

Doornbos, E and Whitehead, J (2024)  Whales and dolphins now have legal personhood in the Pacific – but one treaty won’t be enough to protect them.  The  Conversation  (Online) available at: https://theconversation.com/whales-and-dolphins-now-have-legal-personhood-in-the-pacific-but-one-treaty-wont-be-enough-to-protect-them-227615

Doornbos, E and Nurse A. (2023)  UK ivory trade ban extended to five more species – here’s why we think it will be ineffective. The conversation (Online) available at:  https://theconversation.com/uk-ivory-trade-ban-extended-to-five-more-species-heres-why-we-think-it-will-be-ineffective-206709

Munk, T and Doornbos E. (2023) Verden mistede interessen for økokatastrofen. Jyllands- Posten (Online) available at:  Verden mistede interessen for økokatastrofen (jyllands-posten.dk)

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Press expertise

Elliot was involved in a live interview on Rise and Shine for Channel Africa in relation to Insect trafficking and wildlife crime.

Elliot did a live interview on Mornings with Simi on 980 CKNW regarding the Colombian hippo population and their management.

Elliot was quoted in a nature article titled: Colombia begins sterilizing its invasive hippos: what scientists think.