Robin Cameron

Dr. Robin Cameron

Senior Lecturer

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Robin Cameron is Program Manager of the Bachelor of Criminal Justice and a Lecturer in Justice and Legal Studies. He is a member of the Social and Global Studies Centre.

Robin began managing the Bachelor of Criminal Justice mid-2015 and is consolidating its strong position within the discipline of Justice and Legal Studies and the wider school of Global, Urban & Social Studies.

Prior to joining Justice & Legal Studies, Robin was Program Manager of Human Security & Natural Disasters research in the Global Cities Research Institute at RMIT and a Research Fellow in Global & Language Studies in the School of Global Urban & Social Studies. He has previously lectured at La Trobe University, The University of Melbourne and Deakin University.

Industry experience:
Robin has undertaken commissioned reports for government and non-government organisations including:

Department of Premier and Cabinet (Victoria) and Our Watch.
Professional links and associations:

American Society of Criminology
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
Australian Political Science Association
British Society of Criminology
International Political Science Association

Supervisor projects

  • Entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries
  • 11 Jan 2024
  • Gender & the State: Analysing Australia’s Gender-based violence policy during the rise of neoliberalism
  • 23 Nov 2021
  • Men Feeling Differently: Masculinity, Normativity, and the Prevention of Gendered Violence
  • 2 Jul 2018
  • Antagonism: Conveying and Responding to Negative Evaluations in YouTube Comment Thread Interactions
  • 2 Jul 2018
  • Building collapse: Pathologies in Cities in Ghana
  • 29 Feb 2016
  • When Tech Disrupts Democracy: The Institutionalisation Of Populist Social Movements During The Transition To Techno-Feudalism
  • 23 Jul 2015
  • Vernacular Security and the Spiritual Landscape in Timor-Leste
  • 2 Mar 2015

Teaching interests

Terrorism, Counter-radicalisation, Social control, Urban protest, Disasters and urban space, Global crime, Refugees, Human security, Cyber-security, Critical security studies, International relations theory, Foucault, Post-structural analysis

Research interests

Criminology, Sociology, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Policy and Administration, Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

Robin's current research focuses on Digital Criminology with a focus masculinity and extremist violence in urban and online spaces, and the effects on community resilience. He has also conducted research into 9/11, the war on terror and security responses to other crises such as disasters and protests. These pursuits fit within a broader interest in how global security discourses are being incorporated into local forms of social order and control.

These research interests span the following fields:
Digital criminology
Global criminology
Terrorism studies
Critical security studies
Human security
International relations theory
Political theory
Social theory
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