Associate ProfessorClare Farmer

Associate Professor, Criminology

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Lifespan Institute

  • Associate Professor, Criminology
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Lifespan Institute
  • +61 3 522 72823 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Undergraduate Teaching Expertise: Unit Chair, unit design and re/development, unit assessment (with current unit codes)

 

  • ACR101: Introducing Crime and Criminology
  • ACR102: Introducing Crime and Criminal Justice
  • ACR201: Issues in Criminal Justice
  • ACR203: Crime, Victims, and Justice
  • ACR204: Crime, Media, and Justice
  • ACR302: Criminology Research

 

Post graduate Teaching Expertise: Unit Chair, unit design and re/development, unit assessment (with current unit codes)

 

  • ACR702: Criminological Policy and Policy-Making
  • ACR712: The Practice of Justice

 

 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    State Crime in Sri Lanka: Tamil Othering
    Taylor Sharne McCaw - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Strengths-Based Strategies for Justice Investment, Reinvestment and Diversion in Australia
    Cameron Ian Russell - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Supporting the Supporters. Community participation in restorative justice: implications for policy and practice
    Corrine Marsland - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Mandatory reporting requirements and supports for child victims of sexual abuse with intellectual disabilities in Victoria, Australia.
    Daniel Walsh - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Investigating how In Prison Programs Assist or Hinder Neurodiverse Individuals
    Elizabeth Waite - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Experiences of LGBTQIA+/GNC Australians with Rural Policing
    William Thomas McCarthy - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Extradition, transnational justice and domestic judicial decisions: A comparative analysis
    Sally Kennedy - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    'To be Seen in its Own Right': Recognising and Responding to Reproductive Coercion and Abuse in Australia
    Stephanie Komazec - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2026
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Reporting Sexual Violence: An Analysis of Policy and Practice at Australian Universities
    Emma Gretgrix - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    FEATURED
    Featured
    Regulating Technology-Facilitated Domestic and Family Violence Through Protection Orders
    Jessica Woolley - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2025
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING LEADERSHIP ROLE
    Deakin Undergraduate Criminology Course Team: 2026 ->
    1 Jan 2026
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING LEADERSHIP ROLE
    Deakin Post Graduate Criminology Course Team: 2022 ->
    1 Jan 2022
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ACR702 Criminological Policy and Criminal Justice Practice (as Unit Chair)
    Unit conceptualisation, design, and development as Grad Cert - then redevelopment as MCRIM core unit
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ACR302 Criminology Research (as Unit Chair)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ACR203 Crime, Victims and Justice (as Unit Chair)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ACR102 Introducing Crime and Criminal Justice (as Unit Chair)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ACR201 Issues in Criminal Justice
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ACR204 Crime, Media and Justice
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ACR101 Understanding Criminal Justice
  • TEACHING SKILL
    Unit conceptualisation, design, and development
  • MENTORING
    Deakin Academic Mentoring Program
    1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
    Appointed staff mentor
  • MENTORING
    DeakinHE Fellowship Mentor
    1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
  • MENTORING
    Deakin Academic Mentoring Program
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
    Appointed staff mentor
  • MENTORING
    Deakin Early Career Academic Futures (DECAF) mentoring program
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
    Appointed mentor
  • MENTORING
    DeakinHE Fellowship Mentor and Assessor
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024