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Education and Training

 

 

 

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

 

 

 
 
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:-

The Round 2 Discretionary Research Scholarship applications are now open. See application form below, applications close 31 October 2012. 

 

 

 

 

There are currently no scholarships available.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Student
Host
Thesis Title
Supervisors
PhD 
Peter Anderson
GU
Early intervention for police organisational units
Tim Prenzler, Louise Porter, Hennessey Hayes
David Aspland
GU
The ethical issues that support or hinder co-operation in public/private partnerships in pluralistic policing
Tim Prenzler
Simon Bonney
ANU
An exploration of covert information gathering practices
Rod Broadhurst
Russell Brewer
ANU
Regulating third parties: Governing the interface between licit and illicit trading activities at Australian maritime ports
Peter Grabosky
Lennon (Yao-Chung) Chang
ANU
High-tech crime across the Taiwan-China Strait
Peter Grabosky
Melinda Chiment
UQ
Migrant youth and community engagement: How unique social context shapes perceptions of belonging in Australia
Rebecca Wickes and Zlatko Skrbis
Jodie Curth
UQ
Policing for development outcomes: Complexity and monitoring and evaluation in police capacity building operations
Alex Bellamy, Paul Boreham
Louise Curtis
GU
Red criminals: Censorship, surveillance and suppression of the radical Russian community in Brisbane during World War 1
Mark Finnane, Belinda McKay
Natalie Davies
CSU
Exploration of the characteristics and behaviours of internet child sexual abusers
Karl Roberts
Susan Donkin
GU
The evolution of pre-emption anti-terrorism law: A cross-jurisdictional examination
Janet Ransley, Mark Finnane
Sheena Fleming
GU
Indigenous and minority groups within the criminal justice system
Janet Ransley, Tim Prenzler
Angela Higginson
UQ
Fraud against the Commonwealth: Statistical methods and decision tools for analysing and monitoring serious and complex economic crime
Michele Haynes, Mark Western, Rebecca Wickes
Robyn Holder
ANU
Procedural justice in the criminal justice system for victims of violent crime
Peter Grabosky
Saskia Hufnagel
ANU
Comparison of cross-border enforcement strategies in Australia and the EU, focusing on the area of police cooperation
Simon Bronitt
Charles Hunt
UQ
Evaluating police in peace and capacity-building operations
Paul Boreham, Alex Bellamy
Alice Hutchings
GU
Theory and crime: Does it compute?
Hennessey Hayes, Janet Ransley, Simon Bronitt, Peter Grabosky
Stephen Illidge
GU
Are international students from Northeast Asia at higher risk of becoming victims and/or perpetrators of crime whilst studying in Australia?
Sue Trevaskes, Hennessey Hayes, Mark Finnane
Jacqueline Joudo
ANU
Crime and ethnic diversity
Peter Grabosky
Chenda Keo
ANU
Human commodity: A study of Cambodian human traffickers’ activities and perspectives
Rod Broadhurst
Gavin Knight
GU
Comparison of measures arising from processes within different police organisations
Lorraine Mazerolle, Anna Stewart
Amanda Lambrose
GU
Cyber-predation: A triangulated approach to understanding offending, offenders and criminal justice and regulatory responses
Hennessey Hayes, Janet Ransley, Richard Wortley
Patrick Law
UQ
Develop a comprehensive framework for assessing the performance and effectiveness of international police capacity building and peace operations
Lorraine Mazerolle, Paul Boreham
Nina Leijon
ANU
Symbolic regulation and the sex offender
Peter Grabosky
Stanislaw Leszczynski
ANU
Facilitation of money laundering by the Gatekeepers using complex trusts and derivatives
Peter Grabosky
Yongtao (William) Li
CSU
Trends in the evolution of social control in Chinese and western societies
Anna Corbo Crehan, Jane Delahunty
Thaddeus Lin
UQ
Performance measurements framework for policing in peace and stability operations
Paul Boreham, Alex Bellamy
Jade Lindley
ANU
Vulnerabilities to trafficking in persons in post-conflict society
Peter Grabosky
Beverley Loke
ANU
Ordering the world: Sino-American deliberations on the responsibility of great power
William Tow
Peng Lu
ANU
Constructing a Chinese school of international relations
William Tow
Kirsty Martin
GU
Analyst decision-making
Mark Kebbell, Michael Townsley
Ingrid McGuffog
GU
The impact of drug law enforcement partnerships on drug treatment outcome trends
Lorraine Mazerolle, Janet Ransley, Melissa Bull
Kristy Meszaros
GU
An investigation into the protective factors that prevent home-grown terrorism among Muslim Australians
Louise Porter, Mark Kebbell
Toby Miles-Johnson
UQ
Social control of the transgendered body: A study of formal and informal policing of gender diverse identity
Lorraine Mazerolle
Christine Nam
ANU
Human security studies
William Tow
Vanessa Newby
GU
Public diplomacy amongst Islamic states
Jason Sharman, Halim Rane
Jason Payne 
ANU
Drugs, crime and criminal careers
Peter Grabosky
Alex Pound
UQ
Conflict environments: Dangers and opportunities for policing operations
Alex Bellamy
Fang Qu
CSU
Police interrogation practice in China
John Kleinig, Anna Corbo Crehan
Elise Sargeant
UQ
Policing and citizen-initiated regulation: Examining an integrated model of effectiveness, legitimacy and policing-strategies.
Lorraine Mazerolle, Rebecca Wickes, Adrian Cherney
Tomohiko Satake
ANU
From collective defence to international security: Security burden-sharing in the US-Japan and the US-Australia Alliance in the post-Cold War era
William Tow
Steven Sellers
GU
The role of evidence in suspect interferring: A mixed approach
Mark Kebbell
Apichat Suriboonya
CSU
An exploration of cases of terrorism and political violence in southern Thailand
Karl Roberts, Nicholas OBrien, Simon Bronitt
Ioeru Tokantetaake
CSU
The reponses of police in small Pacific Island countries to contemporary policing issues
Melissa Bull
Lauren Vogel
GU
The role of women in violent extremism
Mark Kebbell
Rebecca Wallis
GU
The Northern Territory Intervention - a study of legislation
Mark Finnane
Nina Westera
GU
Investigative interviewing of suspects and witnesses
Mark Kebbell
Justin Whitney
ANU
The impact of disasters on civil society - a case study of the Japanese nonprofit sector
William Tow
Ken Wooden
CSU
Police perspectives on accountability
Tim Prenzler, Janet Ransley
Liyun (Julia) Zhang
CSU
A comparative study of criminal investigation procedures in China and Australia
Anna Corbo Crehan, Jane Delahunty
MASTERS (PHILOSOPHY)
Michelle Hayes
UQ
Can strengthening peer processes reduce delinquency? An examination of a school-based intervention program on peer processes and self-reported delinquency in early adolescence
TBC
Dae Woon Kim
GU
Public private security cooperation
Tim Prenzler
Barry Krosch
GU
The Queensland Police Special Branch: History, function, impacts
Mark Finnane, Stephen Stockwell
HONOURS 
Elizabeth Eggins
UQ
The efficacy of facial stimuli within a P300 guilty knowledge test paradigm: Autobiographical versus incidentally acquired knowledge
Timothy Cutmore
Esther Harlow
GU
Public perceptions of police crime
Louise Porter
Joyce Shek
UQ
Fear of crime: Investigating the individual and community determinants
Rebecca Wickes
Renee Zahnow
UQ
Diversity and disorder: Pathways to perceptions
Lorraine Mazerolle,   Rebecca Wickes