Melissa Bull

B: 1962
Biblio: Associate Professor and began her career in criminology and criminal justice as a researcher at the Australian Institute of Criminology in 1990. Since 1996 she has taught criminology, sociology and policy-related subjects in law, arts and multi-disciplinary programmes at the University of New England, University of Queensland and Queensland University ofTechnology, joining the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in 2005. From 2012 until 2015, she was Deputy Director and then Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security. Her research expertise crosses the fields of drug regulation and policing diversity. Key projects have explored international drug control, justice responses for drug-related offenders, punishment practices, community policing in culturally and linguistically diverse communities and policing in differently organised states. She has extensive experience in qualitative research and a st.rong interest in social and political theory, and in particula.r, the relationship between theory, policy and practice in the governance of crime.