Stan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and holds a master’s in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Oxford.  He is a Professor of Practice at Keele University where he promotes evidence based policing and public health collaborations for prevention.  He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, where he promotes interdisciplinary collaboration to prevent people with neurodisabilities and neurodivergent needs from criminalisation.  He is an International Consultant for a review of how brain sciences can inform UN Member States of ways to prevent the criminalisation of children. 

Stan is also a Senior Research Associate with the Police Foundation (UK) and an Expert with the international social sciences think tank, Scopium. Stan has lately held a role with the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK’s National Police Chiefs Council as the UK lead for Risk Technology (technology, data, research and analysis to promote collaboration and prevent harm).  During his time as the Director of the Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit, Stan established a collaborative data cloud platform and governance structure, including an independent Data Ethics Committee to support a ‘whole of society’ approach to place-based change, this programme is now being rolled-out across the UK. 

Stan is a long-standing member of the UK’s Police and Health working group, a cross-sectoral body that promotes collaboration for harm prevention, and Chairs their Evidence and Evaluation subgroup. He is a Fellow of the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA) and co-convenor of two of the GLEPHA Special Interest Groups - on violence prevention and on neurodisablity and justice. 

Stan is an International Consultant and Expert with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and an International Adviser for the journal to the European Standing Group on Organised Crime, and has recently contributed, as a subject matter expert, to the United Nations Toolkit on Mainstreaming Gender and Human Rights and was a panel member for the  launch of the Toolkit.

Stan has made a wide contribution through operational guidance as a member of the UK College of Policing Guidelines Committee and has written policy and capacity building advice, book chapters and journal articles (Orcid ID) and is an editor of three volumes examining Organized Crime and Politics (Edward Elgar 2019) and Transnational Organized Crime (Routledge 1ed 2012, 2ed 2021). 

In 2022, Stan was awarded the UK Home Secretary’s Commendation 'For an outstanding contribution in the field of home affairs' and in 2024 the King's Police Medal for distinguished service.