Dr Jaime Waters

Professional biography

Dr Jaime Waters is an honours sociology graduate from the University of Western Ontario (Canada). She also holds a Masters degree in international criminology and a post-graduate certificate in higher education from the University of Sheffield. Her PhD research focused on illegal drug use among older adults and was awarded by the University of Sheffield in 2010.

From 2005 to 2021 Jaime taught and researched in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, becoming a senior lecturer in criminology in 2010. Jaime joined the Open University in 2021 as both a lecturer & staff tutor, as well as an associate lecture. 

Jaime’s research interests encompass illegal drug use, gambling and gambling harms, and emotional labour. She also has an interest in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research methods. She has co-authored the research monograph Illegal Drug Use Through the Lifecourse: A Study of ‘Hidden’ Older Users (2017, Routledge), the textbook Mixed Methods in Criminology (2019, Routledge), and co-edited Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology (2020, Routledge). Her teaching interests reflect her areas of research, including research methods (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods), as well as illegal drug use.

Research interests

Illegal Drug Use

Gambling

Emotional Labour

Teaching interests

Research Methods

Illegal Drugs