Dr Monty Mountford

I am part of the ERC funded Project JUSTICE team at DMU which, in collaboration with our colleagues in Ireland and the Netherlands, is working to understand, and develop tools to address, the continued use of coercive and abusive practices in investigative interviewing. My PhD, completed at DMU, investigated social inclusion in sense-making about serious and organised crime. I have been at DMU since 2018; as a tutor and module leader on the Chartered Managers Degree Apprenticeship, as an honorary research fellow on the EMPAC serious and organised crime project, and as a support supervisor to degree apprentices during the covid 19 period. Prior to starting my full time PhD I had a 34 year military career, full time and reserve service, including extensive leadership and management experience.

• Mountford, M., & Thomson, E. (2025). Re-Centering Prospective Sense-Making: Adopting an Experiential Boundary-Crossing Paradigm in Tackling Uncertainty. On the Border: ManagementChallenges, Business Opportunities and Disrupted Institutional Contexts, Conference Proceedings, British Academy of Management 2025 Annual Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 2-5 September 2025.
• Walsh, D., Mountford, M., Fahsing, I., Pajon, L., & Marques P.B. (2025). Contemplating future approaches to the investigation of serious and organised crime in Europe: Contemporary research, policy initiatives, theoretical underpinnings and practical applications. Conference Paper, European Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) Research and Science Conference 2024-25, Guardia di Finanza – Economic Financial Police School, Ostia, Italy, 27-27 March 2025.
• Mountford, T.M.P, Sastry, V.S.S. (2002). On the Prediction of Anomalous Events Onboard Geostationary Spacecraft. Conference Paper, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Conference 2002, Goddard Space Flight Centre, United States of America.

• Sense-making
• Leadership and Management
• Ethical Investigative Interviewing

Leadership and Management

• BSc (Cranfield)
• MSc (Cranfield)
• MA (Kings College London)
• PhD

CMDA - Leadership Principles and Practice

• OBE - New Year's Honours List - Jan 2013
• VR - 2019 - 10 years Volunteer Reserve service
• Runner Up - DMU Doctoral Researcher of the Year - 2026

• Chartered Management Institute - 2014 - Chartered Manager and Fellow of the institute
• Society of Evidence Based Policing - member since 2022

• JUSTICE - Research Fellow
• ImpleMéndez - Working group co-lead

• Society of Evidence Based Policing Annual Conference - Nov 2023
• CEPOL Annual Conference - Ostia, Italy - Mar 2025
• National Police Chief's Council SOC Local Conference - Apr 2025
• British Academy of Management - University of Kent - Sep 2025
• OpenFest (University of Sheffield) - Sep 2025 - Relationship Building panel session

Further information available on request

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