The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) was established by the ARC in 2007 to boost policing and security research capacity in Australia amid the growing complexity and internationalisation of transnational crime in the post 9/11 environment.
International Advisory Board
Members of the CEPS International Advisory Board provide strategic advice to the CEPS Executive. Board members are leaders in their field, drawn from academic and industry environments in the policing and security sectors. The Board helps to shape the Centre’s research agenda and disseminate findings to key decision makers, and advises on governance and business issues.
Chair:
Professor Duncan Chappell
University of Wollongong
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Duncan Chappellchappell@bigpond.net.au |
Professor Duncan Chappell is the Chair of the CEPS International Advisory Board (2008-2012). A lawyer and criminologist, Professor Chappell is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Sydney Law School at The University of Sydney. In 2007 he was the Acting Director of the University of Sydney’s Institute of Criminology. He is the immediate past President (2001-2006) of the New South Wales Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT), and also of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal based in London (2001-2005). He is also a past member of the NSW Law Reform Commission (2002-2006). Before taking up his position with the MHRT, Professor Chappell was for 5 years (1996 – 2001) a Deputy President of the Australian Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Prior to his full time membership of the AAT, Professor Chappell was the Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). Professor Chappell, who graduated with first class honours in law from the University of Tasmania in 1962 and received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1965, has occupied a range of academic and other professional positions in Australia, the United States and Canada. Since 1980 Professor Chappell has been a member of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and retains an adjunct professorial appointment at that institution. |
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Robert Atkinsoncommissioner@police.qld.gov.au(07) 3364 6488 |
Commissioner Robert Atkinson APM has had a 36 year career with the Queensland Police Service having been sworn in as a Constable on 30 October 1968. He has served throughout the State from Goondiwindi to Cairns performing a wide range of operational and managerial roles. He was a Detective for approximately 20 years and was in charge of country Criminal Investigation Branch and Juvenile Aid offices. He was involved in the change management processes in the QPS post-Fitzgerald from 1990 and then later in terms of further organisational change following the Public Sector Management Commission Review and Report Recommendations of the Queensland Police Service in 1993. In 1989 he attended the three month FBI National Academy Course at Quantico, Virginia USA. That program is aligned with the nearby University of Virginia. He again attended the FBI Academy during 2002 for the National Executive Institute Program. He holds several graduate level qualifications. Bob Atkinson was appointed as Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service on 1 November 2000. |
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John Braithwaitejohn.braithwaite@anu.edu.au(02) 6125 2332 |
Professor John Braithwaite is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Founder of RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network) at the Australian National University. Braithwaite’s books have won a number of prizes in the US and Europe and most recently the US$200,000 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order (with Peter Drahos) and the first Stockholm Prize for Criminology. He served between 1983 and 1987 as a member of the Economic Planning Advisory Council which was chaired by the Prime Minister, was a Part-time Commissioner with the Trade Practices Commission (ACCC, Australia’s national antitrust and consumer protection agency) between 1985 and 1995 and served as a member of the Council on Business Regulation (1994-1996) which reported directly to Cabinet on a review of all laws which impose a regulatory impact on business. He has been active for 40 years in social movement politics in Australia and internationally. |
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Ross Chambersrchambers@csu.edu.au(02) 6933 4336 |
Professor Ross Chambers has been the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Charles Sturt University since 2002. Prior to that appointment he was the Dean, Faculty of Arts at CSU, a position he held from 1992. Professor Chambers was responsible for establishing in 1992 the first collaborative higher education program with NSW Police and has overseen the development of CSU’s policing programs since that time. He is a member of the Board of Management for the NSW Police Constable Education Program and the Board of Management of the Australian Graduate School of Policing. He was the first chair of the advisory committee for the National Strategic Intelligence Course. He is currently a member of the working group reviewing executive development for NSW Police. Professor Chambers has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the ARC Special Research Centre in Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics since its establishment in 2001. |
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Richard Davisrichard.davis@pmc.gov.au(02) 6271 5089 |
Dr Richard Davis is the Assistant Secretary of the National Security Science and Technology Unit (NSST Unit) within PM&C. NSST Unit provides national coordination of science and technology for national security and manages a research programme and international treaties. Dr Davis has a BSc and MSc in Psychology and a PhD in Human Computer Interaction. He worked as a Defence consultant in the UK for a number of years before joining the Australian Defence Science & Technology Organization (DSTO) in 1991. In 1998, Dr Davis established the first S&T unit within an Operational HQ (HQ Australian Theatre, now HQ Joint Operations Centre) and Chaired a Command & Control Technical Panel within The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP - US, UK, CAN, AS & NZ Defence R&D cooperation). Dr Davis was promoted to Research Leader Military Systems Experimentation in 2000, with a focus on Joint and whole of force military capability development. He was also asked to establish the DSTO Modelling & Simulation hub, which he led for 3 years. In 2005, Dr Davis established and chaired a new TTCP Technical Panel, this time on the topic of Concept Development and Experimentation. In late 2005, Dr Davis took up the position of Director General Science Policy Development within DSTO HQ, before becoming Head of the National Security Science & Technology Unit within PM&C in April 2006. |
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Simon Overlandsimon.overland@police.vic.gov.au(03) 9247 6666 |
Simon Overland is the 20th Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police. Mr Overland started in 1984 as a Constable in the Australian Federal Police and worked in special operations, community policing, criminal investigation and internal investigations, rising through a number of positions to Acting Detective Superintendent in 1994.
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Ned Pankhurstn.pankhurst@griffith.edu.au(07) 3735 5122 |
Professor Ned Pankhurst is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Griffith University. Previous to this appointment he was Pro Vice Chancellor (Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology), having joined Griffith in September 2006 from James Cook University where he had held the position of Pro Vice Chancellor of Science, Engineering and Information Technology since early 2004. After completing his PhD studies on freshwater eels, Professor Pankhurst spent three years at the University of Alberta (Department of Zoology) in Edmonton, Canada, as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, developing his expertise in fish endocrinology. In early 1994, he took up a position of Associate Professor in the School of Aquaculture at the University of Tasmania, was awarded a Personal Chair in 1996 and then Head of School from 1998 to 2003. His work in Tasmania centred on using the understanding of fish reproductive physiology to manipulate and optimise reproduction of fish in aquaculture. Prof Pankhurst's research interests lie in the area of biology of fishes including the reproductive physiology and endocrinology of fishes; broodstock management and induced spawning of fishes in aquaculture; and the development of new marine species for aquaculture. He has published widely in the field and routinely reviews for international journals. He is a member of the editorial board of three journals.
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Lawrence Shermanlws@sas.upenn.edu.au215-746-3537 |
Professor Lawrence W. Sherman is the Director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology. He was appointed the University of Pennsylvania's first Professor of Criminology in 2003, with a five-year term as Chair of the Department of Criminology, and has been the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the Department of Sociology since 2000. He served as President of the American Academy of Political and Social Science from 2001-2005, and was the Founding President of the Academy of Experimental Criminology in 1999-2001. The American Society of Criminology elected Sherman a Fellow in 1994, winner of the Edwin H. Sutherland Award in 1999, and President for 2001-2002. |
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Mandy ThomasPVC.Research@anu.edu.au(02) 6125 2631 |
Professor Mandy Thomas has broad research and research training responsibilities which include Higher Degree Research (HDR), Research Integrity and Equity. Professor Thomas is a member of both the University's Education and Research Committees, and works closely together with Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Robin Stanton, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) Professor Elizabeth Deane, and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Lawrence Cram, in developing the University's strategic approach to Research and Education. She is also the Chair of ANU's Human Research Ethics Committee.
Mandy Thomas took up the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor at ANU in November 2006. Prior to this she worked for the Australian Research Council as Executive Director, Humanities and Creative Arts and as the co-ordinator of the Discovery Projects scheme. An anthropologist by training, she has published widely on political and social change in Vietnam, Asian cultural production, migration and regional cultural traffic.
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Research Management Committee
Research operational advice to the CEPS Executive is provided by the Research Management Committee. The Committee advises the CEPS Executive on matters concerning the operation and progress of projects, cross-project collaboration, liaison with other academic, industry and international stakeholders involved with the work of CEPS and potential new members.
CEPS Chief Investigators and industry partner constitute the Research Management Committee.
Chair:
Professor Simon Bronitt
ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security
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Simon Bronitts.bronitt@griffith.edu.au(07) 3735 5938 |
Simon Bronitt is Director of CEPS. Simon was previously a Professor of Law in the ANU College of Law and Associate Director of the Australian Centre for Military Law and Justice, ANU. Between 2006-9 he served as the Director of the National Europe Centre, Research School of Humanities, ANU. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, Simon has published widely on criminal justice issues, including counter terrorism law and human rights, covert policing, telecommunications interception and international criminal law. His publications include Principles of Criminal Law (2nd ed, Law Book Co, 2005) and Law in Context (3rd ed,Federation Press, 2006). He was the lead Chief Investigator of ARC-funded Discovery Project on counter-terrorism law (2005-2008), which culminated in the publication of Miriam Gani & Penelope Mathew (editors), Fresh Perspectives on the *War on Terror* (2008). For more details see http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/index.html |
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Peter Graboskypeter.grabosky@anu.edu.au(02) 6125 1509 |
Peter Grabosky is a Professor in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University and the Deputy Director of ARC CEPS. His research interests are in computer crime; policing and regulatory failure; and exploring how non-governmental institutions may inform public policy.
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Christopher Blackchristopher.black@afp.gov.au(02) 6275 7550 | n/a |
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Gabriele Bammergabriele.bammer@anu.edu.au(02) 6125 0716 |
Gabriele Bammer is a CEPS Chief Investigator, a Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment at The Australian National University and a Research Fellow at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is the Convenor of the CEPS Knowledge Integration research program. Her research focuses on synthesis of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, understanding and managing unknowns, and providing integrated research support for policy and practice change, which she is developing in the new cross-cutting discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S). She has also edited Dealing with uncertainties in policing serious crime, ANU E-Press (2010); http://epress.anu.edu.au/dealing_citation.html |
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Paul Borehamp.boreham@uq.edu.au(07) 3346 9686 |
Paul Boreham is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of the University of Queensland Social Research Centre. His research interests include work organisation and technological innovation; Australian employment and loabour market conditions; and political economy and public policy. Paul is also involved in the management of ‘Building Peace and Stability: Measuring Effectiveness of Peace and Capacity Building Operations'.
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David Bradleydavid.bradley@police.vic.gov.au(03) 9247 6888 |
Dr David Bradley is a Victoria Police Research Fellow, Office of Chief Commissioner (2005 to present). He was also the Founding member, Centre for Police Studies, University of Strathclyde, 1982 - 1986; Foundation Dean of Studies, NSW Police Academy, 1987-1995; Director, Programs and Staff Development, NSW Police Academy 1996-1997; Director, Curriculum, Research and Continuing Education, NSW Police Academy, 1997-2000; Director, Planning and Research, NSW Police College, 2000-2002: Victoria Police Fellow in Criminal Justice, RMIT University, June 2002. His work in New South Wales involved aiding in the academic development of the police college enabling it to develop strong partnerships with universities in the delivery of police education and training, including relocation of foundational training to a university setting. In Victoria he has facilitated the development of a large applied policing research program involving collaborative relationships with some seventeen university research teams. Subjects include: counter-terrorism and policing multi-faith communities; investigative interviewing; police organizational behaviour; part-time quality work in policing; recruiting and retaining members of culturally diverse members of groups into policing; police response to major collisions; police response to adult sexual assault; networked policing; governance of inter-agency response to family violence; forensic evidence impact upon criminal investigation; police governance; managing serious crime investigations; policing and the mentally ill; police services for victims and witnesses. |
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Mark Finnanem.finnane@griffith.edu.au(07) 3735 1032 |
Mark Finnane is a former CEPS Director. Mark is currently a CEPS Chief Investigator, a Professor of History at Griffith University and an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow. As an historian he has a particular interest in the history of policing, criminal justice and responses to violence.
Mark is leading research projects that will:
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Tracey Greentgreen@csu.edu.au(02) 6933 2861 |
A/ Professor Green has 22 years Police experience as a sworn officer in the UK. Serving to the rank of detective inspector she has extensive experience in the areas of serious and serial criminal investigation. Since joining Charles Sturt University A/ Professor Green is a strong advocate of policing as a profession and has developed a history of collaboration with police and law enforcement agencies ensuring that educational and research opportunities are relevant and aligned to policing. She has been instrumental in the development of post graduate courses in the areas of Investigation, Intelligence, Terrorism and Police Leadership. In her position of Associate Dean (Policing and International) A/ Professor Green has overall responsibility for the School of Policing Studies, located within the NSW Police College at Goulburn, and the Australian Graduate School of Policing, co located with the Australian Institute of Police Management at Manly. A/Professor Green has been instrumental in establishing formal partnerships between the University and numerous law enforcement agencies both national and International. She has also been Chief Investigator for several ARC grants and has delivered numerous papers at industry conferences. She has organized a number of very successful professional forums and workshops bringing groups of practitioners together in the areas of Investigative Interviewing, Intelligence Practice and Professional Standards to debate their function, policy and future direction. A/Prof Green is engaged in research in relation to Human Source management and Investigative Interviewing and her co authored text book ‘Investigative Interviewing Explained’ is currently released as a 2nd edition. |
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Mark Kebbellm.kebbell@griffith.edu.au(07) 3735 3353 |
Mark Kebbell is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Griffith University. As a forensic psychologist, Kebbell's research interests include investigative interviewing and devising effective, legal and ethical ways of eliciting accurate accounts from victims, witnesses and suspects.
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Lorraine Mazerollel.mazerolle@uq.edu.au(07) 3346 7877 |
Lorraine Mazerolle is the Foundation Director and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS). She is a Research Professor in the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) at the University of Queensland and leads a team of highly talented, multi-disciplinary scholars from the CEPS node at UQ. She is the recipient of numerous US and Australian national competitive research grants on topics such as community regulation, problem-oriented policing, police technologies, civil remedies, street-level drug enforcement and policing public housing sites. Professor Mazerolle is a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology, Vice President of the Academy and author of scholarly books and articles on policing, drug law enforcement, regulatory crime control, displacement of crime, and crime prevention.
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Peter Martinmartin.peterj@police.qld.gov.au07 3354 5025 |
Peter Martin is a career police officer having served with the Queensland Police Service for over 30 years. He was promoted and appointed to his current position as the Assistant Commissioner, Ethical Standards Command in early 2008.
Previously he was the Operations Coordinator at Metropolitan North Region which has operational responsibilities for the Central Business District and a large area to the central and north of Brisbane areas.
The Assistant Commissioner’s other recent roles in the Service have included: District Officer, Brisbane West District (2005-2007); Chief of Staff to the Commissioner of Police (2000-2005); and the Officer in Charge of the Drug and Alcohol Coordination Unit (1996-2000).
Assistant Commissioner Martin has an Executive Masters in Public Administration through the Australian and New Zealand School of Government and Griffith University. He also has a Bachelor of Arts in Justice Administration with a major in Police Studies and Adult and Vocational Education.
He is currently counselling and finalising a PhD in the Faculty of Health, School of Psychology at Queensland University of Technology studying in the area of the police role in reducing alcohol-related harm in and around licensed premises.
The Assistant Commissioner was awarded the Australian Police Medal on Australia Day 2008 for his contribution to policing and the community of Queensland. He was also recently inducted into the 'Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame' at the George Mason University, US.
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Tim Prenzlert.prenzler@griffith.edu.au(07) 3735 5613 |
Tim Prenzler is a Chief Investigator in the Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, and a Professor in the School of Crimnology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Tim's research has a strong focus on the application of crime prevention principles to corruption and misconduct, especially misconduct amongst police and security providers. He also has a broader sociological interest in issues associated with the development of private security and specialist police agencies. In Australia he initiated consultative research on security industry regulation and has published numerous papers on trends in security, best practice models of regulation, and relations between police and security providers. He is the co-author of The Law of Private Security in Australia (Thomson Lawbook, 2005/2008, with Rick Sarre), which won a 2006 Award for Excellence from ASIAL. |
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William Towwilliam.tow@anu.edu.au(02) 6125 8550 |
William Tow is a Professor in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. His research interests include Alliance politics; US security policy in the Asia-Pacific; security politics in the Asia-Pacific; and Australian security policies.
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Mark Westernm.western@uq.edu.au(07) 3365 2759 |
Professor Mark Western is Director of the Institute for Social Science Research. He was previously a Director of The University of Queensland Social Research Centre which he helped establish. His research focuses on the impact of large-scale social change on social and economic inequality, politics and culture, and family and household formation in contemporary societies like Australia. Mark is also interested in the use of quantitative methods in social science and is presently undertaking research into methods for analysing certain kinds of longitudinal data.
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Patrick Wellerp.weller@griffith.edu.au(07) 3735 7723 |
Patrick Weller is a Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre of Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University. His research expertise lies in the areas of executive government, politics and policy making in central governments in Westminister systems; Australian politics; and international civil servants.
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Sue Wilkinsonsue.wilkinson@anzpaa.org.au(03) 9628 7217 |
Sue Wilkinson is the Executive Director of the Australia and New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA). Sue moved to Melbourne to take up the post of Executive Director of ANZPAA in November 2007. She was previously a Commander in the Metropolitan Police in London, where she was responsible for a wide serious and organised crime portfolio. She also led a major corporate modernisation programme and the serious and organised crime strand preparing for the Olympics in London in 2012. Sue has a degree in History, and postgraduate qualifications in change management and criminology.
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