Kevin Bampton

Kevin was born in July, 1967 in Kenya to a British father and an Indian mother from Gujarat. He attended the University of Birmingham from 1985 to 1988 and obtained an LLB in Law. He then worked in litigation in Holborn in London and then as a consultant for the British Foreign Office, British Council[2] and the United Nations in Malawi during the 1994 elections after the end of the Hastings Banda government. He also worked in New York, Poland, Botswana, and Zimbabwe and took part in a judicial exchange in France.

In 1996 he became a Lecturer in Law at the University of Derby. He became Head of Law in 2003 and Head of the School of Law and Criminology in 2007. In 2015 he was made Professor of Law and founded the International Policing and Justice Institute at the University. He worked on training Police in Malaysia, Qatar and Dubai and also gave lectures in Bangladesh and partnership visits to India on behalf of the University and served as an advisor to the judiciary in Nigeria and visited Switzerland and New York for conferences.

In 2017 Kevin moved to become Head of the Law School at De Montfort University.[3]

In 2020 he moved from academia to become the Chief Executive of the British Occupational Hygiene Society.[1]