Welcome to SATDASH, the SAT Dashboard, where you can find everything related to Situational Action Theory, including a living review of SAT empirical research, a research resources hub, and a range of research community amenities. You can explore these using the menus above. 
Launched in July 2026, SATDASH is a live and growing research community resource, with various sections of the website still in production. We want the dashboard content to be guided and built by those who will be using it - our SAT community. Please get in touch if you want to:
The resource was created and is maintained by Dr Chae Rose (James Cook University) and Dr Beth Hardie (University of Cambridge), with contributions from the wider SAT research community. 
We hope you enjoy exploring the dashboard and find it a useful resource for all things SAT!
Chae and Beth
Keep reading below for more details about SATDASH.

  • Situational Action Theory (SAT), developed by Per-Olof Wikström, is a highly influential framework for understanding crime and rule-breaking, with growing empirical application across criminology and broader behavioural sciences. Much of this work has originated within, and remains closely associated with, the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, particularly through research concentrated in the Centre for Analytic Criminology (CAC). However, there are now researchers all over the world interested in and empirically testing SAT, many of whom are academically isolated.

    As the SAT literature has rapidly expanded, it is becoming increasingly fragmented, with variation in theoretical emphasis, operationalisation, measurement, and analytic approach across studies (Hardie & Rose, 2025; Pauwels et al., 2018). This fragmentation limits cumulative knowledge-building and makes it increasingly difficult to systematically assess, compare, and build on existing evidence. 

    Furthermore, even when resources (measures, methods, data, code) are open-access, and researchers publicise their SAT interests and activities, without a dedicated space to collate these resources and find each other, it is challenging for researchers to keep abreast of developments, work collaboratively and make the most of a growing and thriving SAT research community. 

    To address this challenge, SATDASH provides an open-access, web-based platform to support a dynamic, living synthesis of SAT research. The structured and searchable ‘Living Review’ of published SAT studies supports comparison across key dimensions including theoretical focus, study design, measurement of core constructs, analytic approach, and substantive findings. 

    The dashboard will also serve as a hub for a range of resources relevant to SAT research, such as a measures repository, methodology learning hub, code bank, links to studies and data, and researcher directory. 

    SATDASH also includes dedicated spaces for SAT research community engagement, fostering collaboration and scholarly discussion and theoretical reflection, enabling timely engagement with emerging ideas alongside peer-reviewed publication. 

    The SAT Dashboard and Living Review was conceived of and built by Chae Rose and Beth Hardie in 2026. As it is a live and growing community resource, we welcome engagement, input, feedback and support, so please do get in touch using the links above or at satdashteam@gmail.com.