Sharon Pickering

Sharon Pickering is an Australian criminologist whose scholarship centers on migration, border governance and human rights. She earned her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2000 with research on women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland, and her later work examined border criminology, human trafficking and refugee policy. Pickering received the Australian Human Rights Award for Print and Online Media in 2012 and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2018. She became Vice-Chancellor of Monash University in 2024. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/