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Jason Ferris
Jason Ferris
Jason Ferris is a senior research fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR).  Jason has over ten years of public health research experience.   He has a well-established publication record with a strong focus on alcohol and drug research, sexual health, and adolescent health.  With a master’s degree in biostatistics he has well developed and expansive quantitative methods skills.  He...

Research Projects
National Social and Cultural Wellbeing Survey
Queensland Community Engagement Trial (QCET)
Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon
Dr. Gordon is a Professor of Criminology and the Director of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is also the Director of the International Cyber-Crime Research Centre, a member of the management committees of both the Centre for Forensic Research and the Centre for Restorative Justice, and a distinguished fellow of the Canadian Center for Elder Law at the University of British Columbia.   A former police officer in several countries, Dr. Gordon...
William (Bill) Paterson
William (Bill) Paterson
Mr Paterson was Australia’s Ambassador to Thailand from 2004-2008. He has extensive experience in international strategic and security policy, politico‑military affairs, intelligence and regional issues as a senior government official, including as head of DFAT’s Anti-Terrorism Task Force immediately after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. In 2002-03 he was head of the Australian Government’s Iraq Task Force. He has also served as head of the International...
Kasun Ubayasiri
Kasun Ubayasiri
Kasun Ubayasiri is a Lecturer at the School of Humanities, Griffith University.   Research expertise Media, insurgency and political violence Terrorism Cmmunication, culture and identity politics Ethno-nationalist media and armed conflict Journalism practice ...
Troy Whitford
Troy Whitford
Dr Troy Whitford lectures in history and politics at CSU and is a doctoral supervisor at the Australian Graduate School of Policing. His research interests include political intelligence gathering and the place of private investigation firms within the broader intelligence community. Dr Whitford has written on elements of the extreme right in Australia and the nature of political intelligence in the 21st century. He is a licensed private investigator and a director of Civintel PTY Limited an...