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Associate ProfessorDiarmaid Harkin

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • +61 3 925 17645 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Dr Harkin has a Fellowship in Higher Education (FHEA) from the Higher Education Academy. 

He is currently interested in PhD applications from students focused on issues of cyber-security; policing; technology; private security; technology-facilitated abuse in the context of domestic and family violence. A particular interest is in questions of cyber security that impact groups such as journalists, activists, political actors, lawyers, diaspora communities, and other civil society groups.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Network Study of Professional Money Laundering
    Sufian Dilbar - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Deciphering the Going Dark Debate: Impacts of Encryption-weakening Laws on the Cyber Security Practices of Tech Companies in Australia
    Md Mehedi Hassan Onik - School of Information Technology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Wagner Group in Africa: Motivations, Impact and Redress
    Oluwaseyi Mike Bamigboye - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Spyware industry vs. journalists: How does the commercial spyware industry influence democratic decision-making to limit press freedom
    Vasileios Panagiotopoulos - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Big Data and National Security: Impacts for Intelligence
    Miah Hammond-Errey - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2022