Sofie

de Kimpe

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)

Sofie De Kimpe is a full-time Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and member of the Crime and Society research group (CRiS) since 2007 (https://cris.research.vub.be/en/home). Her primary research focus is on 'police studies and policing’, with a particular emphasis on frontline policing (street policing). She has extensive experience in qualitative ethnographic police research and has worked as an external expert within the federal police organization on a project aimed at reforming the Belgian police education system. Alongside Lucas Melgaço, she co-leads the research line 'Policing and Surveillance' within the CRiS research group and is a co- promoter of the SRP III program titled 'Policing the Other.' Sofie has been a member of various editorial boards for national and international police journals, including the International Journal of Police Science and Management, Panopticon, and CPS- Cahiers. She has supervised numerous Phd theses and research projects, all focused on policing- related topics. Some of these include police stop & search (FWO), police education, discourses of drug detectives (FWO_joint PhD Ghent University_VUB), police diversity (Open Society Foundation, Innoviris), police racism (FRA), evaluating professional profiling (City of Gent), and technology and policing (Belspo). She served as the chair of the EU COST ACTION network on POLICE STOPS (https://polstops.eu) from 2018 to 2022, alongside Mike Rowe as Vice-chair, and has been an active member of the ESC WORKING GROUP ON POLICING (http://www.esc- eurocrim.org/workgroups.shtml#Policing). Sofie plays a crucial role in the Flemish Centre of Policing and Security (CPS) and serves on the editorial board of the CPS-Cahiers (http://www.policingandsecurity.be). The CPS-network is the most important external policing network in Flanders, consisting of representatives from universities, university colleges, and police training institutes. She is also a member of the advisory committee of the Scottish Institute for Policing (http://www.sipr.ac.uk/about-us/advisory-committee), the Scottish counterpart of the CPS.