Following this experience, she has spent a considerable amount of her academic career studying the consistency and distinctiveness of criminal behaviour to ensure crime linkage analysis is an evidence-based practice. She recently founded C-LINK (Crime Linkage International Network) following a grant from the Leverhulme Trust which brings together academics and practitioners from seven countries who research or practice crime linkage. The aims of the network include collaborative research that will inform policing, creating a research agenda for the future and share best practice. Woodhams is based in the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology which is a hub of expertise in interpersonal crime (e.g., sexual offending, intimate partner violence, gang violence, robbery and child maltreatment).