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Professor Emma Short

Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Professions

Prof Emma Short in corridor looking to the left

Emma joined London Met in October 2022, after holding posts at De Montfort University and the University of Bedfordshire. She is a Chartered Health Psychologist. Emma specialises in cyberpsychology. Her teaching is informed by her research and practitioner experience with the intention on bringing theory to life. She has conducted research in cyberstalking, image based sexual abuse and technology facilitated abuse since 2005, working with partners in the third sector, higher education, the police and government bodies. She continues to work with a wide network of academics and practitioners within the UK and internationally whose focus is on cyber enabled behaviours and online harms.

Emma has taught across the psychology curriculum at undergraduate and postgraduate level, with special focus on cyberpsychology, forensic psychology and health psychology

Health and Behaviour Research Centre

Bradbury, P., Short, E., & Bleakley, P. (2024). Limerence, Hidden Obsession, Fixation, and Rumination: A Scoping Review of Human Behaviour. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 1-10.
 
Smith, E., Short, E.’ Rai, R., Francis, E., Rajput, P., Wilson, A. (2023) It is not your fault, tell someone: Case Studies of Young Women’s Experiences of Online Grooming in England. Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice. 6(1), 7-24.
 
Short, E. Hanney, L, Taylor, S Barnes, J. (2023) A survey study of stalking victims’ experiences of the health-related effects of stalking and their experiences of engaging with health care practitioners. Health Psychology update. Vol 32, issue 1.
 
Alhaboby, Z. A., Evans, H., Barnes, J., & Short, E. (2023). The impact of cybervictimization on the self-management of chronic conditions: lived experiences. Journal of medical internet research, 25, e40227.
 
Alhaboby, Z., Barnes, J., Evans, H., & Short, E. (2023). Cyber-victimisation of adults with long-term conditions in the UK: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25, e39933.
 
Short, E., Bradbury, P., Martellozzo, E., Frost, S., & Bleakley, P. (2022). Frontline response: exploring the impact of COVID-19 on stalking behaviours. Journal of police and criminal psychology, 1-9.
 
Martellozzo, E., Bleakley, P., Bradbury, P., Frost, S., & Short, E. (2022). Police responses to cyberstalking during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. The Police Journal, 0032258X221113452.
 
Bleakley, P., Frost, S., Bradbury, P., Short, E., & Martellozzo, E. (2022). The right tool for the job: Evaluating police experiences of a pilot tool for responding to stalking. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice.
 
Short, E, Hanney, L., Pitchford, M., Morrin, M., Barnes, J., (2021) A Single Incident of “Revenge Porn”? The Prevalence of Image Based Sexual Abuse in a Course of Conduct Amounting to Stalking and Consideration of the Harms Caused. Entertainment law Review. 32, Issue 2.
 
Alhaboby, Z. A., Al-Khateeb, H. M., Barnes, J., Jahankhani, H., Pitchford, M., Conradie, L. and Short, E. (2021). Cyber-disability hate cases in the UK: The documentation by the police and potential barriers to reporting. 13th International Conference on Global Security, Safety & Sustainability, Virtual. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications, Springer.
 
Conradie, L.,Pitchford, M, Myers, E., Barnes, J, Short, E. (2020) Cyberharassment Awareness Course (CybAC): influences from domestic abuse perpetrator programmes literature for its design and function. International Journal of Cyber criminality. Vol. 14 (1) : 220–235.
 
Brown, A., Gibson, M., Short, E. (2017) Modes of Cyberstalking and Cyberharassment: Measuring the negative effects in the lives of victims in the UK. Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine. Vol 15.
 
Short, E. Brown, A, Pitchford, M, Barnes J (2017). Revenge Porn, Findings from the Harassment and Revenge Porn (HARP) Survey – Preliminary Findings. Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine. Vol.15.
 
Worsley, J. & Short, E. Victims’ voices: Understanding the emotional impact of cyberstalking and how individuals cope with this phenomenon (2017). Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 17, 50-63
 
Alhaboby, Z., Barnes, J., Short. E. (2017) Cybervictimisation of People with Chronic Conditions and Disabilities: A Systematic Review of Scope and Impact. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
 
Short, E, Barnes, J. Conradie, L. Brown, A, Alhaboby, Z. Conrad, M. Pitchford, M., Dobocan, A. (2016) Cyberharassment and Cyberbullying; Individual and Institutional Perspectives. Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine. Vol 14, P.115-122
 
Alhaboby Z, al-Khateeb, H.M. Barnes, J. Short, E. (2016). The language is disgusting and they refer to my disability’: the cyberharassment of disabled people. Disability and Society.

Emma has contributed to discussions of cyberpsychology in broadcast and print media, mostly in the areas of cyberstalking, image based sexual abuse and trolling.

David Baddiel: Social Media, Anger and Us

Me and my Trolls

Prof. Emma Short

e.short@londonmet.ac.uk