Sharon Pickering (academic)
Sharon Pickering | |
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Pickering in 2025 | |
| Awards | Australian Human Rights Award for Print and Online Media 2012 Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 2018 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Monash University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Criminology |
Sharon Pickering FASSA is an academic who serves as the Vice-Chancellor of Monash University since 2024.
Pickering graduated from the University of Melbourne with a PhD in 2000 for her thesis Women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland.
Pickering is a scholar of criminology who earned her the Australian Human Rights Commission Award.
In 2018, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences.