Postgraduate researchers in Criminology are advancing scholarship across the discipline. Current research projects are detailed below.
Criminology postgraduates at Monash are supported and encouraged in contributing to the field in the early stages of their research careers and recent achievements are detailed on this page.
Postgraduate researcher achievements
Recent publications from our postgraduate researchers include:
Bridget Harris (with Megan Blair) (2012) Just Spaces: Community Legal Centers as levelling places of law, Alternative Law Journal.
Postgraduate Alumni Achievements
James Martin has recently been appointed as a Senior Lecturer and program coordinator in The Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at Macquarie University.
Lucinda Jordan is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Rural Regional Law and Justice in the School of Law at Deakin University.
Alison Gerard, whose PhD thesis was recently passed, has been appointed as a Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University. She recently co-authored (with Pickering) ‘The Crime and Punishment of Somali women’s extra-legal arrival in Malta’ published in The British Journal of Criminology.
Kate Fitzgibbon recently co-edited a special edition of The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, and published (with Sharon Pickering) in The British Journal of Criminology. Kate was recently appointed as a Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University.
Emma Ryan is now working with the Office of Police Integrity in Victoria and has recently submitted for examination her thesis focused on sub-lethal weapons and Victorian Police.
Postgraduate Research
| Name | PhD/MA | Thesis title | Supervisors |
| Crystal Bruton | PhD | Intimate partner homicide in the context of separation: A re-examination of the issues | Dr Danielle Tyson Dr Jo Lindsay |
| Emma Colvin | PhD | Balancing community safety and individual liberty: How bail support services can reduce the need to remand a defendant in custody | Prof. Jude McCulloch Dr Bree Carlton |
| Phoebe Fenton | PhD | A study of male victims of stalking in rural Australia | Dr Anna Eriksson Dr Danielle Tyson |
| Fairleigh Glimour | PhD | Transitions in and out of sex work. |
Dr Danielle TysonAssociate Professor JaneMaree Maher |
| Rachel Hale | PhD | Pathways to desistence: The experiences of young women pre, during and post-incarceration in Victoria | Dr Anna Eriksson Dr Bronwyn Naylor |
| Julie Ham | PhD | Migrant sex workers in Australia and Canada | Prof Sharon Pickering Dr Marie Segrave |
| Bodean Hedwards | PhD | Prof Sharon Pickering Dr Marie Segrave |
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| Bridget Harris | PhD | Street offences: The policing of public space, youth and the role of community legal centres | Prof. Jude McCulloch Dr Bree Carlton |
| Christine Kirtley | MA | An existential examination of the role that Drug Treatment Orders play in women’s desistance from crime | Prof Sharon Pickering Dr Asher Flynn |
| Maie Noweir | MA | Supporting victims of human trafficking: An analysis of the Australian and UK response | Prof Sharon Pickering Dr Marie Segrave |
| Sarah Segal | PhD | Youth migration, identity and security: An Australian case study | Prof Sharon Pickering Dr Marie Segrave |
| Michelle Sibinek | PhD | The application of anti-stalking legislation | Dr Anna Eriksson Dr Asher Flynn Dr Troy McEwan |
| Alita Spratling | PhD | Drug trafficking discourses: The state, borders and transnational crime control | Prof. Jude McCulloch Dr Dean Wilson |
| Kelly Sundberg | PhD | Comparing approaches to immigration enforcement: A study of Canada and Australia | Prof. Jude McCulloch Prof Sharon Pickering |
| David Vakalis | MA | How to boil a frog: Counterterrorism, mission creep and outlaw motorcycle clubs In Australia | Prof. Jude McCulloch Dr Bree Carlton |
| Laura Vitis | PhD | The age of innocence and the new child pornography | Dr Marie Segrave Dr Danielle Tyson |
| Richard Watkins | PhD | Developing a model of intervention to reduce road trauma amongst young people based on incentives and restorative justice | Dr Anna Eriksson Prof. Max Cameron |
