Speaker profile
Dr Jack Lampkin
BSc, MRes, PhD (Law), FHEA
Available for booking
Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England
Will travel anywhere in the UK
Academic Lecturer
Amateur Astronomer
Summary
Jack is a social scientist primarily interested in the impact of satellites on observational astronomy, especially in dark sky areas.
Full biography
Jack is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at York St John University. He earned his PhD in Law from the University of Lincoln in 2018 and teaches across criminology, law, policing, and sociology.
His research focuses on how outer space is socially understood, particularly in relation to crime and its regulation beyond Earth. He has played a key role in shaping the emerging fields of space criminology and astro-green criminology.
Jack also examines the environmental consequences of space development and expansion, with particular attention to the effects of satellites and orbital debris on observational amateur astronomy.
He has authored and co-authored several works in this area, including Space Criminology (2023), written with Professor Rob White of the University of Tasmania, and Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space: International Perspectives (2024), which he co-edited with Dr Yarin Eski from VU Amsterdam.
Affiliations
Lectures
‘Astro-Green Criminology, Dark Sky Protection and the Technology Paradox’.
[20/11/25] Annual Autumn Law School Faculty Event on “Law & Technology: Law in Times of Digital (R)evolution”, at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
‘Space Mining in the Past, Present and Future’
[20/05/2026] Public Presentation at Pint of Science, York, UK
The Impact of the Space Industry on the Natural World
Public presentation to Keighley Astronomy Society in January 2026.
‘Satellites, Astro-Photography and Observational Amateur Astronomy’.
Public presentation at Space Park Leicester in July 2026.
