Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay

The Department of Economics
Professor of Economics
Director of the Centre for Crime, Justice, Policing
Theme Lead of Institute for Global Innovation

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6658
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 7377
Email: s.bandyopadhyay@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @SBandyo72

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Address: Room 2133, University House
University of Birmingham
Egbaston
Birmingham, UK
B15 2TT

Siddhartha is an internationally recognised economist in the field of political economy and public policy. He was the recipient of the Duncan Black prize awarded by the Public Choice Society in 2015 for his work on the electoral incentives of prosecutors with Bryan McCannon. His work on political coalitions has been published in internationally leading journals and has been widely cited by leading scholars in the field. His papers are on the reading list of a number of courses in political economy in reputed universities.

He has a particular interest in the economics of crime and economic evaluation of policy. His research interests in this area includes game theoretic modelling of criminal behaviour, econometric (statistical) analysis of factors determining crime, cost benefit analysis of alternate interventions, and the impact of initiatives such as citizen reporting.

He has published several papers in reputed journals across disciplines in this area and has been cited in both academic papers as well as policy reports, including the Official National Statistics. He is well versed in the methodological tools required to do analysis of the economic efficiency of various interventions and developed a course at the PG level in this area. He has also given short training sessions on economic evaluation to police and other practitioners.

His work on crime has been featured widely in the media and he has been interviewed by the Economist. He has links with think tanks such as Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and CIVITAS. Along with regularly speaking in academic seminars, he also participates in high profile public engagement activities as well as for radio and television. His public talks include an annual lecture at the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences and he recently delivered his professorial inaugural lecture on Who to Trust: Forming Policy Beliefs in a Polarised World.

Siddhartha is the lead economist on a number of externally funded projects that includes the Police Knowledge Fund (jointly funded by HEFCE and the Home office via the College of Policing) and another funded by Norfolk and Suffolk constabulary (see Recent Grants under Research) and been PI or Co-I in funded grants of over £3 million. He the director of the cross disciplinary Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing and leads the 21^st century transnational crime theme, one of the main themes of the Institute of Global Innovation.

Qualifications

B.Sc (Calcutta)
M.Sc (Delhi)
Ph.D (Pennsylvania)

Biography

Centre for Crime, Justice & Policing: The 'Above and Beyond' campaign

Teaching

Economic Policy and Political Economy, Development Policy. Microeconomics

Postgraduate supervision

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay is an applied economic theorist working on various topics in political economy and public policy. His current research focuses on political coalitions, theoretical and empirical work on the economics of crime, and applied micro theory, especially political economy, public choice and development issues.

Other activities

Director of Knowledge Transfer

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Kumarendran, B, Cherrington, E, Bandyopadhyay, S, Crowe, F, Machaczek, KK, Brown, L, Campbell, N, Jordan, G, Pope, MA, Antonović, M, Taylor, M, W, N, Mahamud, A, Chandan, JS, Griffiths, SL & on behalf of the Co-STARS youth co-production group 2026, 'Co-STARS: a feasibility evaluation of a co-produced mental health literacy training package to reduce mental health inequities for Black young people in underserved communities – study protocol for a randomised controlled trial with an external pilot, process evaluation and economic analysis', BMJ Open, vol. 16, no. 3, e103120. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103120

Tiwana, R, Bandyopadhyay, S, Chandan, JS, Christie, C, Croxford, S, Hallett, N, Molloy, E, Rozanski, M, Nessa, Y, Simms-Williams, N, Smailes, HL, Taylor, J, Wang, Z & Bradbury-Jones, C 2026, 'The Health Needs of Sex Workers and the Factors that Enable or Hinder Their Access to Services: A Co-Produced, Multimethod Study in the United Kingdom', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 2026, no. 1, 6944421. https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/6944421

Montgomery-Marks, P, Bandyopadhyay, S, Weisman, CB & Bose, T 2025, 'Economic burden of PTSD in the UK: a systematic review and economic analysis', BMJ Open, vol. 15, no. 7, e084394. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-084394

Snook, L, Minhas, S, Nadda, V, Hammond, B, Gokhale, KM, Taylor, J, Bradbury-Jones, C, Bandyopadhyay, S, Nirantharakumar, K, Adderley, NJ & Chandan, JS 2024, 'The risk of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases following exposure to childhood maltreatment: a retrospective cohort study using UK primary care data', Heliyon, vol. 10, no. 22, e40493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e40493

Nash, K, Minhas, S, Metheny, N, Gokhale, KM, Taylor, J, Bradbury-Jones, C, Bandyopadhyay, S, Nirantharakumar, K, Adderley, NJ & Chandan, JS 2023, 'Exposure to domestic abuse and the subsequent development of atopic disease in women', Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1752-1756.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2023.03.016

Gani, I, Chandan, JS, Bandyopadhyay, S, Pathmanathan, A & Martin, J 2023, 'Health outcomes in those who have been victims of knife crime: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis', BMJ Open, vol. 13, no. 12, e078020. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078020

Karavias, Y, Bandyopadhyay, S, Christie, C, Bradbury-Jones, C, Taylor, J, Kane, E & Flowe, HD 2023, 'Impact evaluation and economic benefit analysis of a domestic violence and abuse UK police intervention', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 14, 1063701. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1063701

Bandyopadhyay, S, Sarkar, S & Sensarma, R 2023, 'The association between access to key household resources and violence against women', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 12278. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37879-3

Commissioned report

Christie, C, Rockey, J, Bradbury-Jones, C, Bandyopadhyay, S, Watson, E & Flowe, H 2025, Domestic Abuse links to suicide: Rapid Review, Fieldwork and Quantitative analysis Report - Version 3. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17249621

Bandyopadhyay, S, Chandan, J, Bradbury-Jones, C, Taylor, J, Montgomery-Marks, P, Evans, E, Burrell, A, Afrin, J, Crowe, F, Martin, J, Ozkan Erciyas, F, Abramovaite, J, Gonzalez Valencia, MT, Wang, Z, Nambiar, J, Burton, A, Baker, J, Kane, E & Karavias, Y 2025, Impact, Process and Economic Evaluation of the WEPROTECT service.

Montgomery-Marks, P, Chandan, J, Evans, E, Bandyopadhyay, S, Burton, A, Thayakaran, T & Kane, E 2024, Redthread Youth Violence Intervention Programme: Pilot trial report. Youth Endowment Fund, London. <https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/YEF-Redthread-Pilot-October-2024.pdf>

Bandyopadhyay, S, Karavias, Y, Menezes, L, Taylor, J, Apena Rogers, S, Kane, E, Burton, A, Evans, E, Abramovaite, J, Montgomery, P, Chandan, J, Martin, J, Banerjee, A, Cole, M & Chaudhuri, K 2024, Remedi Restorative Mentors: Pilot trial report. Youth Endowment Fund. <https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/YEF.-REMEDI-Pilot-January-2024.pdf>

Bandyopadhyay, S, Bradbury-Jones, C, Kane, E, Montgomery-Marks, P, Banerjee, A, Karavias, Y, Evans, E, Jordan, M, Chaudhuri, K, Khan, L, Pelosi Campbell, P & Yorulmaz, P 2024, United Borders music mentoring programme: Pilot trial report. Youth Endowment Fund, London. <https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/YEF.-United-Borders-Pilot.-October-2024.pdf>

Editorial

Giles, S, Bandyopadhyay, S, Shalev, K & Manning, M 2024, 'Editorial: Economic evaluation in evidence-based criminal justice contexts', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1429063

Preprint

Christie, C, Rockey, JC, Bradbury-Jones, C, Bandyopadhyay, S & Flowe, HD 2023 'Domestic Abuse links to Suicide: Rapid Review, Fieldwork, and Quantitative Analysis Report' OSF Preprints, pp. 1-126. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/4t9ab

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Expertise

Siddhartha is an expert on political economy and public policy. He is an experienced media commentator on a number of issues in public policy but in particular on crime policy and the changes in governance of policing. He also welcomes media enquiries on issues related to electoral systems and coalition governments.

Expertise

Siddhartha is an expert on political coalitions, economics of crime and policing and policy evaluations.

Has used game theory to analyse the nature of pre and post electoral political coalitions
Has modelled and empirically analysed the determinants of criminal behaviour and how it is modified by policing
Is an expert at quantitative evaluation and has led several evaluations using mixed methods

Policy experience

Siddhartha regularly provides analysis on policing and criminal justice, advises police forces and wider criminal justice agencies, and also writes regularly for non academic audiences, including in the GARDA review.

See Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing website for details