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Ms Julie Ayling
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Julie Ayling is an Associate Investigator on the CEPS project ‘Illicit Organisations’, headed by Professor Peter Grabosky. Ms Ayling is examining new and emerging crime threats from illicit organisations such as youth gangs, drug suppliers and terrorist groups. Ms Ayling's research interests include the role of public police of all kinds (including transnational), their relationship with the non-government sector, and the broader effects of national criminal justice policies at international levels, particularly in relation to illicit drugs, organised crime and terrorism.

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Dr Robert Ayson
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Robert Ayson is an Associate Investigator on the CEPS projects ‘Transnational Actors’, ‘Extending Frontiers’ and ‘International Responses’ headed by Professor Bill Tow. He directs the Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence Program where he teaches Strategic Concepts. His research interests centre on the relationship between strategic ideas and strategic policy. Dr Ayson is an authority on the Nobel Prize winning work of the American strategic theorist Thomas Schelling, and is currently undertaking a study of Hedley Bull's strategic thinking. He is also a Chief Investigator for an Australian Research Council Linkage Project on Australia's Nuclear Choices. Dr Ayson has written on security issues involving Asia's great powers, Australian strategic policy towards Asia, and the future of the nuclear non-proliferation regime. In January 2010, Dr Ayson will take up a new chair in Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington where he will also be Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies. Dr Ayson's research interests include strategic thought, nuclear proliferation, Asia-Pacific security, and Australian/New Zealand strategic policies.

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Professor Roderic Broadhurst
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Rod Broadhurst is an Associate Investigator engaged in several CEPS projects including 'Illicit Organisations' and 'Investigative Practices' headed by Professor Peter Grabosky. Professor Broadhurst brings to CEPS extensive experience in criminal justice, as a practitioner and researcher. His previous research has focussed on criminal behaviour, lethal violence, victimisation and cyber crime, and has involved longitudinal research applying risk analysis methodologies to problems of recidivism, persistent offending, sex offending and dangerous offending. His current research includes work on crime and modernisation in Cambodia, homicide in Hong Kong, crimes against business in China, and a national survey of attitudes to sentencing in Australia. Professor Broadhurst has considerable international experience and has conducted UN crime victim surveys in China and Cambodia. He serves on the steering committee of the UNDOC/Korean Institute of Criminology Cybercrime Forum and the UNODC Expert Group on Crime Statistics.

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Professor Simon Bronitt
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, ANU College of Law

Simon Bronitt is an Associate Investigator on the CEPS project ‘Legal Frameworks’ headed by Professor Mark Finnane. Professor Bronitt is a Professor of Law in the ANU College of Law and Associate Director of the Australian Centre for Military Law and Justice within that College. He was the Director of the National Europe Centre (ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences) 2003 – 2009. Professor Bronitt has been an Associate of the Australian Institute of Criminology since 1996 and is also an Adjunct Professor in the Centre of Applied Philosophy and Ethics based at ANU.

Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, Professor Bronitt has published widely on criminal justice issues including counter terrorism law and human rights, covert policing, telecommunications interception and international criminal law. He has coauthored a number of books including Principles of Criminal Law (2nd edition, Lawbook Co., 2005), Law in Context (3rd edition, The Federation Press, 2006) and Regulating Deviance: The Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of Criminal Law (Hart Publishing, 2008). He was the lead Chief Investigator of an ARC-funded Discovery Project on counter-terrorism law (2005 – 2008), which has culminated in the recent publication of Fresh Perspectives on the 'War on Terror' edited by Miriam Gani and Penelope Mathew (ANU E Press, 2008).

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Dr Lorraine Elliott
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Department of International Relations, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Lorraine Elliott is an Associate Investigator on the CEPS projects ‘Extending Frontiers’ and ‘International Responses’ headed by Professor Bill Tow. Dr Elliott is a Senior Fellow (Associate Professor) in the Department of International Relations at The Australian National University. She returned to the ANU in September 2005 after a two-year secondment to the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, where she was Reader in International Relations and Programme Director for the MA in International Relations. She is currently undertaking research on transnational environmental crime, illegal resource activity and regulatory responses via the Transnational Environmental Crime project, and has delivered a number of papers within Australia and internationally on this topic, for which she has received grants from the International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies and the ANU Linkage Pilot Program. She is also Chief Investigator for the Macarthur Foundation Asia Security Initiative project on ‘Climate Security, Human Security and Social Resilience’ based at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Dr Elliott holds a Senior Visiting Fellowship at NTU for the duration of this project. She also works on regionalism and environmental governance with a particular focus on Southeast Asia.

In 2005, Dr Elliott completed a project funded by the United States Institute of Peace, working with her co-researcher Dr Graeme Cheeseman of the Australian Defence Force Academy, on cosmopolitan militaries and the use of military force and forces in support of cosmopolitan objectives. Under this project they ran two workshops in the UK and an international conference at the ANU, and in 2004, published a co-edited book with Manchester University Press, entitled “Forces for good: cosmopolitan militaries in the 21st century.”

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Professor Alexander Gordon
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Sandy Gordon is an Associate Investigator on the CEPS project ‘Illicit Organisations’ headed by Professor Peter Grabosky. His research focuses on the nature of the linkages between terrorism and transnational crime, and specifically on the issue of whether terrorist/transnational crime groups are capable of 'morphing', or whether their links are essentially only functional and temporary. Professor Gordon is examining whether the linkages differ between countries and cultures, and is analysing the ways in which highly secretive groups actually seek each other out, including in so-called 'crime hubs'. Professor Gordon is investigating international cooperation against terrorism and transnational crime, and specifically, is exploring the growing need of security agencies to expand cooperation beyond normal regional mechanisms as the reach of criminal and terrorist groups increasingly extends beyond their traditional 'crime regions'. The findings offered by Professor Gordon's research into these areas will offer law enforcement agencies a practical means by which to probe weaknesses in terrorist and criminal groups. Australian government law enforcement and criminal agencies will also benefit greatly from such research as they face a critical transition period over the next 18 months in determining new directions for Australia’s national policies on criminal and terrorist groups in an international context.

Professor Gordon’s research experience ranges from the study of South Asia, including criminal and terrorist groups and policing, to intelligence, transnational crime and terrorism. He possesses invaluable practical knowledge of police intelligence, gained from his six years with the Australian Federal Police, including as head of intelligence.

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Professor Rikki Kersten
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Department of Political and Social Change, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Rikki Kersten is an Associate Investigator on the CEPS projects ‘Extending Frontiers’ and ‘International Responses’ headed by Professor Bill Tow.

Professor Kersten has been educated in Wollongong, Adelaide and Oxford, and has spent numerous extended periods in Japan at various tertiary institutions along the way, notably at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science, and Keio University. She spent five years in the Australian Foreign Service, completing a posting in the Political Section of the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, before returning to academic life. Professor Kersten has taught modern Japanese history at Sydney and Leiden Universities, and has served as Research Manager and subsequently Director of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific at the University of Sydney. She joined The Australian National University in 2006 as Dean of the Faculty of Asian Studies, and is currently Professor of Modern Japanese Political History in the Department of Political and Social Change.

Professor Kersten's research interests are Japanese security policy, modern Japanese history, political thought and foreign policy. She is attracted to the intangible realm of political thought, particularly the history of political ideas in modern Japan. She aspires to communicate and analyse Japanese political thought for non-Japanese audiences, and to integrate Japanese thinking into global scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Professor Kersten works extensively with primary sources in the vernacular. Her main areas of research interest are democracy and fascism, debates over war apologies and war guilt in Japan, contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy, and historical and philosophical revisionism.

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Mr John McFarlane
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

John McFarlane is an Associate Investigator on the CEPS projects ‘Intelligence Methods’ and ‘Minimise Threats and Enhance Wellbeing’. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism (PICT) at Macquarie University, and has Visiting Fellowships in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA). He also lectures at Victoria University of Wellington. He is an Associate Investigator with CEPS at The Australian National University and provides consultative input to various CEPS projects. Mr McFarlane's research interests include transnational crime, links between crime and terrorism, corruption and governance, police peace operations, military support for law enforcement, and maritime security.

Mr McFarlane retired from the Australian Federal Police in December 1999, having previously served as the AFP's Director of Intelligence. He also has a background in the Australian Intelligence Community, and from 2000 to 2004 was the Executive Director of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific.

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Dr Damon Muller
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences

Damon Muller works with Professor Gabriele Bammer at CEPS where he is involved with the 'Integration and Implementation' CEPS program and is specifically looking at issues of uncertainty in relation to policing and security. His research investigates how issues related to ignorance and uncertainty are conceptualised and dealt with in the realms of policing and security.

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Dr Brendan Taylor
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Brendan Taylor is an Associate Investigator on the CEPS projects ‘Extending Frontiers’ and ‘International Responses’ headed by Professor Bill Tow. Dr Taylor's research interests include Northeast Asian security, American foreign policy, economic statecraft and alliance politics.

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Ms Emma Thomas
Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Emma Thomas is an Associate Investigator on the CEPS project 'Illicit Organisations' headed by Professor Peter Grabosky. Her major research focus within CEPS is the profiling and analysis of illicit organisations, including youth gangs, organised crime and terrorist groups. Specifically, Dr Thomas is investigating the nature of linkages between terrorism and transnational crime, and of international cooperation against terrorism and transnational crime, particularly in an Asia-Pacific context. Dr Thomas holds a PhD in social psychology gained through the ANU Department of Psychology. Her other research interests involve exploring the psychological factors which motivate commitment to positive social movements (for example those defined by anti-poverty ideals).

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