Dr Nicky Dalbir, FHEA, is a criminologist and criminal justice educator with international teaching, research, and curriculum development experience across the United States and the United Kingdom. Trained in the American Criminal Justice tradition, her work focuses on Criminal Justice and Criminology (CRCJ) education, pedagogy, institutional analysis, comparative justice systems, governance, and emerging theoretical approaches within the field.

Her teaching and research interests include criminal law and procedure, corrections, victimisation, recidivism, gender and crime, mental health in criminal justice, and the relationship between criminological theory and real-world justice institutions. Across her academic career, she has taught a wide range of undergraduate courses in criminal justice, criminology, research methods, corrections, policing, victimology, and criminal law and procedure.

Dr Dalbir has held academic appointments at the University of Essex, Morningside University, Stonehill College, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Alongside teaching and supervision, she has contributed extensively to curriculum redesign, programme development, experiential learning initiatives, undergraduate research supervision, and broader academic leadership and governance activities.

She is an elected Executive Committee Member of the Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU), contributing to ongoing discussions surrounding higher education, academic governance, and institutional futures within the UK sector.

Dr Dalbir is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of CRCJ Review.