In his day job, Mark is a community safety officer for a Metropolitan Borough Council in the west midlands, and has responsibilities for Hate Crime, Community Cohesion, Tension monitoring, Prevent, and all workstreams relating to the CONTEST duty amongst other things.

Mark is recognised as an Extremism and Hate Crime specialist, who has significant experience in working in criminal justice and community safety arena, with over 17 years of experience as a practitioner and training facilitator in the safeguarding and community safety area of work.

Mark has also lectured at universities across the midlands on the relationship between Hate Crime, its causes and effects, Far-Right Extremism, push and pull factors, propaganda, conspiracy theories, misogyny, the manosphere and and Incels, and even how fashion can play a part in extremism.

Mark is often called upon to provide research data, and policy advice to multi-agency partners and enjoys developing training and policy materials around safeguarding, and extremism, locally, regionally and nationally.

During his work in Victim Support he was invited to join the ground-breaking University of Leicester “Leicester Hate Crime Project” strategy and steering board for the life of the research project, which published its research in September 2014.

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