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Dr Ahlawat has broad experience of working with government agencies and academic institutions. He has worked as an Honorary Associate with Macquarie University, Visiting Fellow with University of New South Wales and Center Associate with University of Pittsburgh-USA. In addition, he has worked in co...

Dr. Melanie Brand is a lecturer and researcher in the field of Intelligence Studies. Her research interests include intelligence analysis and warning, oversight and accountability, secrecy, and cultural perspectives on intelligence, espionage and spying. Her research has been published in Intelligen...

Brian is a historian of twentieth century international politics and US foreign relations. His research explores the changing legal frameworks of international and national security, and his current book project examines how the American use of military force during the Vietnam War reshaped the lega...

Julian Droogan is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology where he serves as Head of Department. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Routledge). Julian's academic research focusses on onli...

Dr Farida is a lecturer, researcher, and cultural consultant. She is currently a Lecturer in Terrorism Studies in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie university. She has also served as a consultant for Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) programs in CSNSW. Dr Farida has been...

Courtney J. Fung is Associate Professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology at Macquarie University. She is concurrently Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, Scholar in Residence at Asia Society Australia, and also Associate Fellow...

Tshepo is Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, in the Department of Security Studies at Macquarie University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow (non-resident) at the Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to this, he was lectu...

Roger Lee Huang is senior lecturer in terrorism studies and political violence and director of the Bachelor of Security Studies. He has broad research interests in the politics, international relations, and security of East and Southeast Asia. He has previously worked at Lingnan University (Hong Kon...

Dr. Jennifer S. Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber and Security Studies at Macquarie University specialising in the national security of critical systems such as cyber and energy. Current projects include: cyber-enabled information operations, foreign interference and electoral security, and disinfo...

Vince Hurley (PhD) is a university lecturer specialising on the contemporary role of the police and policing within criminological theories. He also lectures on Crisis Management and Disaster Relief.Before joining the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University Vince spen...

Dr Lavina Lee is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Sydney and joined Macquarie University in 2007. In 2020, she was appointed to the Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute by the Australian Defence Minister and was previous...

Dr. Yves-Heng Lim is a Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University. His research focuses on the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific, the evolution of China’s strategy, with a particular interest for China’s naval strategy, and inte...

A/Prof. Adam Lockyer is an Associate Professor in Strategic Studies at Macquarie University.He held the 2015 Fulbright Scholarship in US-Australian Alliance Studies at Georgetown University. Before joining the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, A/Prof. Lockyer was a Research Fellow in...

Ed Moore is a cyber security Lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University. He has a technical background with years of experience in implementation and auditing of cyber security platforms and has been using this experience to educate students for more than...

Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert joined Macquarie in 2024 as a Research Fellow in Security Studies. Kylie is a political scientist specialising in the Middle East and is a former Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her current project focuses on wrongful detention and hostage diplomacy...

Dr. Rolando Ochoa is a Lecturer at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology. He holds a PhD in Sociology and an MPhil in Latin American Studies, both from the University of Oxford, UK. He has carried out research on the history and political economy of kidnapping in Mexico, as well as the...

Dr Lara Palombo (she/her)  is a Lecturer in Criminology. She holds a BA (Hons), M.A. in Gender Studies and PhD in Cultural Studies. Her interdisciplinary research focuses upon spaces, practices and technologies of incarceration. In 2015, Lara completed her doctoral research on historical mutations o...

Informed by the cultural theory of Bourdieu, Foucault and Derrida, my research draws predominantly on ethnographic research methods to examine fundamental questions of power and inequality. This has led to a critical focus on the ‘performative rituals’ of elite social groups, the maintenance and dev...