Education and Training

CEPS aims to play a key role in developing the next generation of policing and security scholars. The Centre provides exciting research and training opportunities, excellent facilities and ample opportunities to engage with practitioner environments. The Centre also develops tailored short courses for industry clients. 

RHD Policy
        Support provided to Research Higher Degree (RHD) students associated with CEPS
        Application for assessing RHD allowance
        Application for discretionary research scholarship
        Application for RHD student publication award      

Postgraduate Research

Industry Courses

CEPS operates an active and engaging postgraduate research program. The Centre:

• recruits and mentors first-class PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows and early career researchers;
• provides exciting research opportunities and exceptional research training within a collegial and supportive environment;
• provides first-class premises and access to cutting-edge information technology;
• exposes students to scholarly and practitioner environments; and
• ensures opportunities to engage with national and international policing and security debates.

For more information on postgraduate research at the Centre, please contact:

CEPS Director of Studies - Professor Simon Bronitt, email s.bronitt@griffith.edu.au or phone + 617 3735 5938; or

CEPS Development Coordinator - Dr Louise Porter, email l.porter@griffith.edu.au or phone + 617 3735 1035

Student Research Topics

Scholarship Opportunities

Below is a list of research topics supervised by CEPS researchers. This list is far from complete and potential students are encouraged to contact the CEPS Director of Studies (Professor Simon Bronitt) or CEPS researchers to discuss research topics.

Research Program	Research Topic	Researchers and Supervisors
	Observations of police engagement with Parent and Citizen Associations and Neighbourhood Watch groups	Dr Rebecca Wickes Professor Lorraine Mazerolle Dr Sarah Bennett
	Surveys of citizen participants in community actions	Dr Rebecca Wickes Professor Lorraine Mazerolle Dr Sarah Bennett Professor Mark Western
	Community engagement and community regulation	Dr Rebecca Wickes Professor Lorraine Mazerolle
	Legitimate policing	Professor Lorraine Mazerolle Dr Sarah Bennett
	Measuring police performance	Professor Paul Boreham
	International police operations	Professor Paul Boreham
	Alliance politics	Professor William Tow
	Australian security policies	Professor William Tow
	Security politics in the Asia-Pacific	Professor William Tow
	Histories of intelligence and security, Australian and comparative	Professor Mark Finnane
	“Politically motivated violence” – contexts and concepts	Professor Mark Finnane
	Legal regulation and policing in counter-terrorism strategies	Professor Mark Finnane Dr Janet Ransley Professor Simon Bronitt
	Policing, security and democratic values	Professor Mark Finnane Dr Janet Ransley Professor Simon Bronitt
	Government security policy coordination	Professor Patrick Weller
	Legal regulation and third parties in counter-terrorism	Professor Mark Finnane Dr Janet Ransley Professor Simon Bronitt
	Police integrity testing	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Police drug and alcohol testing Mediation and alternative dispute resolution for complaints against police	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Police misconduct indicators and trends	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Police ethics training	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Changing role and powers of police oversight agencies	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Covert tactics against police corruption	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Litigation against police and litigation reduction	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	The impact of new use of force technologies	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Early warning and intervention in policing	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Dealing with false complaints against police	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Innovations to reduce process corruption	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Police gratuities: police and practice	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Regulating security services: the impact of recent reforms	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Preventing deaths in police custody	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Police leadership	Dr Louise Porter Associate Professor Mark Kebbell
	Police use of force	Dr Louise Porter Associate Professor Mark Kebbell Professor Simon Bronitt
	Ethical issues in offshore policing	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Implementing police integrity strategies in emerging democracies	Professor Tim Prenzler Dr Louise Porter
	Identifying individuals at risk of committing serious offences	Associate Professor Mark Kebbell Dr Louise Porter Dr Michael Townsley
	Improving the collection, interpretation and communication of intelligence products	Associate Professor Mark Kebbell Dr Louise Porter Dr Michael Townsley
	Investigative interviewing and investigative psychology	Associate Professor Mark Kebbell Dr Louise Porter Dr Michael Townsley
	How police and security agencies understand and manage uncertainty eg. in investigating drug trafficking or terrorism	Professor Gabriele Bammer
	Police and intelligence training in uncertainty – is it up to the mark?	Professor Gabriele Bammer Associate Professor Mark Kebbell
	Analyst decision making	Associate Professor Mark Kebbell
	Electronic crime	Professor Peter Grabosky Professor Rod Broadhurst
	Organised crime	Professor Peter Grabosky Professor Rod Broadhurst
	Research influence on policing and security police and practice – what are the most effective mechanisms	Professor Gabriele Bammer
	The extent and quality of cross-disciplinary research in policing studies	Professor Gabriele Bammer
	Research engagement with police: guidelines for success	Professor Gabriele Bammer
	What can a multidisciplinary perspective tell us about change in policing?	Professor Gabriele Bammer
	Barriers and facilitators to promoting integration of policing and security	Professor Gabriele Bammer

Cybercrime PhD Scholarship opportunity

More information can be obtained by visiting the Research Higher Degrees websites of CEPS University Nodes.

CEPS develops short-courses to meet industry needs.  Some of the courses that CEPS has convened are summarised below. Please contact Associate Director Dr Rebecca Denning to discuss CEPS developing a short-course to meet your agency’s needs.

Crime and Intelligence Analysis

This course is delivered in conjunction with the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. This five-day course consists of intensive, face-to-face instruction and a twelve-week structured on-line discussion board and intelligence product review assessment aimed at policing and security practitioners. Developed by Chief Investigator Professor Lorraine Mazerolle and Associate Investigator Dr Michael Townsley, the course covers:

• the dominant theories explaining the relationship between crime and place;

• understanding of the main types of logical reasoning;

• the application of a systematic framework for the analysis of crime problems;

• specific topics, such as victim-oriented, place-oriented, offender oriented analyses; and

• how these inform tactical decisions and interventions work.

Introduction to Research Integration for Knowledge and Action

Led by Program Four Leader Professor Gabriele Bammer and Associate Investigator Professor Michael Smithson, this two-day course provides an introduction to (1) practical frameworks within which to think about integration and (2) the nature of uncertainty, the diverse ways it emerges in cross-disciplinary research and methods for managing it. The course provides an overview of concepts for problem framing and boundary setting, methods for integrating in cross-disciplinary research, processes for generating fresh thinking on intractable problems and techniques for effective research input into decision making and practice change