Richard Jones is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh.

His research focuses on the use of emerging technologies in crime, crime prevention, surveillance and security, including in the fields of cybercrime and cybersecurity. He specialises in understanding and informing policymaking in these areas. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the EPSRC-funded project ACCEPT(Addressing Cybersecurity and Cybercrime via a co-Evolutionary Approach to reducing human-relaTed risks). He was a member of the IRISS (Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies) Project which was a large collaborative research project on surveillance and resilience in democratic societies and was funded by the European Commission under the FP7 framework. Separately, he was also an External Expert on Cybercrime for the FIDUCIA project (also funded under the European FP7 framework).