Sharon Pickering is an academic who serves as the Vice-Chancellor of

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

since 2024. Pickering graduated from the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public university, public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in the state ...

with a

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in 2000 for her thesis ''Women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland''. Pickering is a scholar of

criminology Criminology (from Latin , 'accusation', and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'', 'word, reason') is the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is a multidisciplinary field in both the behaviou ...

who earned her the Australian Human Rights Commission Award. In 2018, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences.

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Living people Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Australian academic administrators Date of birth missing (living people) Australian women criminologists Year of birth missing (living people) University of Melbourne alumni Academic staff of Monash University Vice-chancellors of Monash University {{Criminologist-stub