Lisa Sugiura

Dr Lisa Sugiura is Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Gender at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth. Her research focuses on online deviance, and technology facilitated gender-based abuse and sexual violence. She has published on topics including the online pharmaceutical trade, phishing, online research ethics, and rape culture online. Her research projects, which include funding from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Home Office, involve the language of cybersexism, victims of computer misuse, the use of technologies to assist marginalised women into employment, the role of technology in domestic abuse, and extremist and misogynistic behaviours in incel communities. She is the author of the books: Respectable deviance and purchasing medicine online: opportunities and risks for consumers Palgrave Macmillan, and The incel rebellion: the rise of the manosphere and the virtual war against women Emerald publishing.