Hello!

My name is Shanley (pronounced like Stanley with an h), and I’m a second year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Social Research program at Trent University.

My research interests are broadly in the intersection of place and crime, including rural criminology, land-use planning and crime prevention, community safety and well-being planning, and missing persons investigations. My doctoral research focuses on how digital amateur sleuths engage in missing persons investigations.

I hold an MSc (Planning) in Rural Planning and Development from the University of Guelph, where my thesis examined violent crime in rural Canada. 

Prior to that, I completed my BA Honours in Psychology with a minor in Business at Saint Mary’s University and received a Governor General’s Silver Medal for highest academic standing in the graduating class. My honours thesis involved a psychometric assessment of a Scrambling Scale, proposed as a measure of how individuals respond to crisis situations.