Criminology staff

Find contact details and information about Criminology staff.

Director

Dr Russil Durrant

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

russil.durrant@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1120, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Deputy Director (Undergraduate)

Dr Sara Salman

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

Postgraduate coordinator for PhD and MA students

Dr Sara Salman

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

Postgraduate coordinator for MCrim students

Dr Trevor Bradley

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

trevor.bradley@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1101, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Programme staff

AProf Lynzi Armstrong

Associate Professor

School of Social and Cultural Studies

lynzi.armstrong@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1121, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Sex worker rights and safety, sex work law, street-based sex work, migration and anti-trafficking policy, stigma, sport, gender and crime, sexual violence... read more

Rebekah Bowling

Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas: Research interests include Māori data sovereignty, kaupapa Māori methodologies, artificial intelligence and biometric surveillance, settler colonialism, and Mā... read more

Dr Trevor Bradley

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

trevor.bradley@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1101, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Crime Prevention, crime reduction and community safety; policing, plural policing (including private security/private policing and citizen-led, voluntary... read more

Criminology Police administration, procedures and practice Private policing and security services

Dr Roberto Catello

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

roberto.catello@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas: Berkeley School of Criminology, corporate crime, crime history, crimes of the powerful, critical pedagogy, Foucault, Global South, historical criminology, hi... read more

Critical approaches to crime Criminology Crime and social justice Critical theory Historical studies of crime History and philosophy of education Historical studies History and philosophy of the social sciences

Dr Russil Durrant

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

russil.durrant@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1120, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Species justice, animal ethics, green criminology, human-invertebrate relationships.... read more

Criminology

Amy FitzGerald

Assistant Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

amy.fitzgerald@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas:

Research interests include 'sexting' and non-consensual sexual media sharing; gender and sexuality and digital media; sexuality education.

James Haydock

Lecturer in Criminology

Tutor CRIM

School of Social and Cultural Studies|School of Social and Cultural Studies

james.haydock@vuw.ac.nz
MY , Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Dr Fiona Hutton

Associate Professor

School of Social and Cultural Studies

fiona.hutton@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1103, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Gender and drug use, drug law reform, drug policy, alcohol and other drug use, harm reduction... read more

Criminology Crime policy

Dr Samantha Keene

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

School of Social and Cultural Studies

samantha.keene@vuw.ac.nz
MY , Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas:

Critical perspectives on adult pornography; 'rough sex' and the 'rough sex defence'; strangulation; sexual choking; family violence

Criminology Gender and crime Causes and prevention of crime Critical approaches to crime

Dr Ti Lamusse

Lecturer, Criminology

School of Social and Cultural Studies

ti.lamusse@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas: New Zealand Prisons, Prison Abolitionism, Penal Abolitionism, Critical Criminology, Critical Theory, Social Movements, Human Rights, Justice, Queer cr... read more

Criminology Sociology Social change Social theory Human rights and justice issues (excl. law)

Prof Simon Mackenzie

Head of School

School of Social and Cultural Studies

simon.mackenzie@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1118, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: White-collar crime, organised crime, transnational crime, trafficking, policing, critical criminology, socio-legal criminology, theoretical criminology,... read more

Criminology Criminological theories

Dr Liam Martin

Lecturer in Criminology

School of Social and Cultural Studies

liam.martin@vuw.ac.nz
MY 1114, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

Research Areas:

Incarceration, alternatives to prison, electronic monitoring, carceral studies, digital criminology, methodologies for sensitive research

Criminology Crime policy Sociology

Claudia Murdoch

Teaching Fellow

Visiting Scholar

School of Social and Cultural Studies|School of Social and Cultural Studies

claudia.murdoch@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Sara Salman

Senior Lecturer

School of Social and Cultural Studies

Research Areas: Critical social theory, cultural criminology, media representations of race and crime and deviancy, citizenship in democratic regimes, state and structural... read more

Criminology Policy and administration Sociology Social theory Psychoanalytic philosophy