DrImogen Richards

My role at Deakin University has been focused on fostering and developing critical digital and political literacy among students. In doing so, I have leveraged over a decade of teaching experience from the Criminology departments at Deakin and Monash Universities to coordinate, chair, and contribute to the development and delivery of multiple critical criminological subjects.

At Deakin University, I have recently chaired and campus coordinated in units such as ACR210 (Crime, Surveillance, and Society), ACR213 (Crime, Terrorism, and Security), and ACR301 (International and Comparative Justice). Additionally, I have led ACR302 (Criminology Research), the third-year capstone criminology methods unit. This most recent role has involved instructing on mixed research methods to over 500 students across two campuses and online.

Beyond teaching, my academic responsibilities have included mentoring undergraduates in structured programs, training colleagues, and coordinating research training seminars for Higher Degree by Research students at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI).

Currently, I supervise three PhD students as their Principal and Associate advisor on topics ranging from conspiracy and protest during the Covid-19 pandemic to economic narratives on carbon capture and storage as climate change mitigation measures communicated in Australian news media.