Public Safety and Security

Overview

Mission statement:

To advance public safety and security in Australia and globally through multi-disciplinary, collaborative, impactful, industry relevant research and consultancy outputs.

The Public Safety and Security research area brings together a large number of researchers and those with the potential for research from across the faculty with diverse disciplines and knowledge areas, including but not limited to:

• Artificial intelligence
• Behavioural sciences
• Biosecurity and bioterrorism
• Customs and border protection
• Counter-terrorism
• Criminology
• Cyber security
• Data sciences
• Defence studies
• Ethics, privacy and security
• Emergency management
• Engineering
• Forensics
• Financial crime
• Intelligence studies
• Justice studies
• Law
• Policing and law enforcement studies
• Science and technology studies
• Security studies

Some areas listed, for example cyber security, are the focus of existing and vibrant research areas in the Faculty. The Faculty Research Area (FRA) for Public Safety and Security does not dilute or duplicate efforts being made in other groups. Rather, this FRA will work closely with existing research groups and industry to help better broker and coordinate researchers and research efforts across different groups where there is a public safety or security component to the research.

The FRA Public Safety and Security: National and CSU Research Priorities

The FRA is aligned with the National Innovation and Science Agenda, particularly the pillars–collaboration and talent and skills. The FRA as discussed above promotes greater research outputs in partnership with relevant industry partners that can produce world leading research and improved research infrastructure at Charles Sturt University (CSU). The FRA also focuses on ‘talent and skills’ by identifying strategies to attract high quality digitally literate and entrepreneurial HDR and researcher talent. The group will also develop the talent skills of CSU researchers.

The FRA also works towards improving and expanding CSU’s ERA ratings, particularly in discipline areas where it has received a rating of 3 or more in recent ERA assessments (e.g., criminology and applied ethics).  Additionally, the FRA’s activities will align strongly with the ERA’s Engagement and Impact Assessment initiative, which seeks to assess the engagement and impact of research to end users beyond academia. From a University research policy perspective, the FRA will be built around the Research Narrative. While a large proportion of FRA research will fall under the Narrative’s ‘flourishing communities’ research sphere, the cross-disciplinary nature of the research will undoubtedly lead to outputs that cut across the two other spheres (resilient people and sustainable environments). Indeed, while the bulk of the researchers for this FRA may reside in the Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences, the group actively collaborates with researchers in other faculties on research in the public safety and security space.

Industry engagement and impact

FRA members are already working with a number of national and international stakeholders. Current and potential industry partners include but are not limited to:

Research comparative advantage:

CSU and particularly the Faculty has a significant workforce capacity to develop a strong multi-disciplinary public safety and research agenda. For example, all of the 3.4 FTE staff allocated to work on the Cyber Security CRC come from either Australian Graduate School of Policing & Security (AGSPS), the School of Computing and Mathematics or Marketing. Staff allocated to the Cyber Security CRC will work on projects that cut across a lot of research topics being pursued by this FRA. Hence, there are already in place natural synergies that the FRA can exploit and develop further beyond the Cyber landscape into other public safety and security areas identified earlier.

In particular, CSU has the strongest police and intelligence links of any university in Australia, including through the AGSPS. The AGSPS has more than two decades of experience in collaboration with national and international industry (e.g., law enforcement and security agencies), short courses in cyber security and policy, investigations, counter-terrorism and strategic intelligence. The AGSPS thus provides a well-established mechanism for the sharing and promotion of knowledge about policing, security risks and threats, and public safety.

The AGSPS and School of Computing and Mathematics researchers working in the public safety and security areas are also frequently called upon for media commentary as well as releasing media statements after major policy announcements or critical incidents such as a terrorist event. The FRA will build on the branding that CSU has with many national and international media outlets by developing a media strategy for a more coordinated response to issues that promote the FRA and CSU.

The FRA already demonstrates its capability to be a national leader in public safety and security related research. For example, in the 2015 ERA assessment, CSU achieved a rating of 3 in relevant areas such as criminology and artificial intelligence and a 4 in applied ethics. The FRA allows CSU to provide a more coordinated and strategic approach to its research capabilities, thereby making it highly possible to achieve ratings of 4 or 5 in these and possibly other public safety and security related ERA clusters in the near future.

The FRA also seeks to develop those members of staff who do not have a track record in research and publishing from within the Faculty, but who want to engage with industry partners. Finally, the FRA includes a number of researchers, who have already demonstrated significant capability to complete impactful research and consultancy work in the public safety and security context and who would act as mentors for those individual wishing to develop in this area (see members section).

Members

Name	Title/Position	Location	Email	Picture
Yeslam Al-Saggaf	Assoc Professor	School of Computing & Mathematics	yalsaggaf@csu.edu.au
Cesar Alvarez	Lecturer	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	calvarez@csu.edu.au
Phillip Birch	Associate Professor	Centre for Law & Justice / Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	pbirch@csu.edu.au
Terry Bossomaier	Adjunct Professor	School of Computing & Mathematics	tbossomaier@csu.edu.au
Oliver Burmeister	Professor	School of Computing & Mathematics	oburmeister@csu.edu.au
Lisa Coates	Lecturer	Centre for Law & Justice	lcoates@csu.edu.au
Emma Colvin	Senior Lecturer	Centre for Law &Justice / Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	ecolvin@csu.edu.au
Ruth Delaforce	Lecturer	Centre for Law & Justice	rdelaforce@csu.edu.au
John Gaffey	Lecturer	Centre for Law & Justice	jgaffey@csu.edu.au
Alison Gerard	Professor	Centre for Law & Justice / Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	agerard@csu.edu.au
Xiaodi Huang	Associate Professor	School of Computing and Mathematics	xhuang@csu.edu.au
Valerie Ingham	Assoc Professor	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	vingham@csu.edu.au
Mir Rabiul Islam	Lecturer	Psychology	rislam@csu.edu.au
Mikhail Kashubsky	Senior Lecturer	Centre for Customs & Excise Studies	mkashubsky@csu.edu.au
Charles Knight	Lecturer	School of Policing Studies	chaknight@csu.edu.au
Carli Kulmar	Lecturer	School of Accounting & Finance	ckulmar@csu.edu.au
Andrew McInnes	Senior Lecturer	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	anmcinnes@csu.edu.au
Amber McKinley	Lecturer	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	amckinley@csu.edu.au
Seumas Miller	Professor	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	semiller@csu.edu.au
Alain Neher	Lecturer	School of Management & Marketing	aneher@csu.edu.au
Manoranjan Paul	Professor	School of Computing & Mathematics	mpaul@csu.edu.au
Robert Preece	Senior Lecturer	Centre for Customs and Excise Studies	rpreece@csu.edu.au
Henry Prunckun	Research Criminologist	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	hprunckun@csu.edu.au
Sabih-Ur Rehman	Senior Lecturer	School of Computing and Mathematics	sarehman@csu.edu.au
Susan Robinson	Lecturer	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	surobinson@csu.edu.au
Colin Rogers	Professor	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Manly	corogers@csu.edu.au
Patrick Walsh	Assoc Professor	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Manly	pawalsh@csu.edu.au
Levi West	Lecturer	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	lwest@csu.edu.au
Peter White	Adjunct Lecturer	School of Computing & Mathematics	pewhite@csu.edu.au
Troy Whitford	Lecturer	Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security	twhitford@csu.edu.au
David Widdowson	Professor	Centre for Customs & Excise Studies	dwiddowson@csu.edu.au
Tanveer Zia	Professor	School of Computing & Mathematics	tzia@csu.edu.au

Grants and Publications

Grants Awarded

Cesar Alvarez, (2018). DFAT Council on American Latin American Relations (COALAR) grant to run an Australia-Colombia Policy Dialogue.  The dialogue will focus on four key strategic issues that bring Australia and Colombia together, namely, trade, with a specific focus on mining; connectivity, also with a special emphasis on tourism, transportation, and people-to-people initiatives; education, with an emphasis on research and international student exchanges and security, with a special focus on transnational organised crime, border security and law-enforcement diplomacy (Chief Investigator: Cesar Alvarez).

DFV Victim Safety Strategies: Planning and Awareness. Chief Investigators: Dr. Philip Birch (CSU, Aus.) and Professor Jane Ireland (UCLan, UK).

NSW Police reported child abuse cases: An examination of patterns and trends between 1994-2014. Chief Investigators: Dr. Philip Birch (CSU, Aus) and Sergeant Ineke Romeyn (NSW Police, Child Sex Abuse Command).

Sexual assault on university campuses: Examining safety strategy approaches and techniques.  Chief Investigators: Dr. Philip Birch (CSU, Aus.) and Professor Jane Ireland (UCLan, UK).

Exploring self-harming behaviours amongst students in vocational degrees entering high risk professions: The role of risk and preventative measures. Chief Investigators: Dr. Philip Birch (CSU, Aus.) and Professor Jane Ireland (UCLan, UK).

Ex-soldiers and Criminal Justice Contact: Exploring the role of mental health. Chief Investigators: Dr. Philip Birch (CSU, Aus.) and Professor Jane Ireland (UCLan, UK).

Animal abuse: An investigation into the association with psychopathy and personality functioning. Chief Investigators: Dr. Philip Birch (CSU, Aus.) and Professor Jane Ireland (UCLan, UK).

Evaluation of Enough is Enough Anti-Violence project (Chief Investigator: Dr Philip Birch, CSU).

Intelligence and National Security: Ethics, Efficacy and Accountability. (ARC Discovery Grant $277,994). Chief Investigators: S. Miller (CSU), P. Walsh (CSU), R. Bradbury (ANU), A. Henschke (ANU)

Addressing the illicit flow of tobacco products: A case study from Australia Chief Investigator R Preece (CSU)

Tax modelling and policy engagement in the Vietnam alcohol market.  Chief Investigators D Widdowson (CSU), R Preece (CSU) E Oczkowski (CSU) Y Bara (CSU).

Review of Australia’s National Committee on Trade Facilitation and Australia’s Progress Towards Implementation of the Single Window Concept. Chief Investigators: D. Widdowson (CSU), B. Blegen (CSU), G. Short (CSU), M. Kashubsky (CSU).

Reforming Automobile Excise Taxes in the ASEAN Region for Pro-Growth and Pro-Environment Outcomes. Chief Investigators: D. Widdowson (CSU), R. Preece (CSU).

Girls in Cyber Security Advancing (GiCSA) project funded by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS), as part of the Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship Program. Chief Investigator: T Zia.  (WISE64796 July 2018- June 2020 - $353,744)

Publications - 2018

Alvarez, C. (2018) Drug Trafficking and Maritime Security. An Australian Perspective. (In Spanish). Published in Revista CIMCON, the Indexed Magazine of the International Maritime Analysis Centre against Drug Trafficking (CIMCON as per its acronym in Spanish). CIMCON is a Research Centre led by the Colombian Navy and Coast Guard

Birch, P. Ireland, J.L. and Ninaus, N. (2018) Treating Stalkers: A framework for understanding process components in International Handbook on Aggression: Current issues and perspectives, Ireland, J.L., Birch, P. and Ireland, C.A. (eds.), London: Routledge.

Birch, P., Ozanne, R.L. and Ireland, J.L. (2018) Homophobic and Non Homophobic Aggression: Examining its portrayal in print media in International Handbook on Aggression: Current issues and perspectives, Ireland, J.L., Birch, P. and Ireland, C.A. (eds.), London: Routledge.

Birch, P. and Veljanova, I. (2018) Raising awareness, improving victim safety: Exploring the efficacy of DFV proactive prevention measures in International Handbook on Aggression: Current issues and perspectives, Ireland, J.L., Birch, P. and Ireland, C.A. (eds.), London: Routledge.

Birch, P. (2018) ‘Higher Education and Police’, Edited by C. Rogers and B. Frevel.  Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, special issue on Higher Education in Policing.

Birch, P., Vickers, M., Galovic, S. and Kennedy, M. (in press – due August 2018). Cultivating wellbeing amongst police officers: Examining challenges in the workplace in M. De Guzman & D. K. Das (eds.) Urban Security: Challenges for 21st Century Global Cities and policing. Florida: CRC Press.

Birch, P. and Wintle, E. (in press – due September 2018) Sex Offender Registration and Public Protection: Rethinking the management of sex offenders in the community in Violent and Sexual Offenders: Assessment, Treatment and Management (2nd ed.), Ireland, J.L., Ireland, C.A., and Birch, P. (eds.), London: Routledge.

Cozens, P and Rogers, C., (2018), ‘Let’s be Friends’: Exploring Governance, Crime Precipitators and Public Safety in the Night time economies of Cardiff (Wales) and Perth (Australia), The Journal of Urbanism; International research on Place making and Urban Sustainability.

Harrison, M., Walsh, P.F, Lysons-Smith, S. Truong, D. Horan, C and Jabbour, R (2018). Tradecraft to Standards – Moving Criminal Intelligence Practice to a Profession Through the Development of a Criminal Intelligence Training Development Continuum, Policing Journal.

Huang, H., Zhu, J, Huang, X,  Yang, M, Fung, G and., Qintai Hu, Q. (2018) A Novel Approach for Entity Resolution in Scientific Documents Using Context Graphs, Information Sciences, Vol.432. Pp.431-441, 2018 (IF 4.305, ERA2010 ranking B)

Ireland, J.L., Birch, P. and Ireland, C.A. (eds.) (2018) Routledge International Handbook on Human Aggression: Current issues and perspectives London: Routledge.

Ireland, J.L., Ireland, C.A., and Birch, P. (eds.) (in press – due September 2018) Violent and Sexual Offenders: Assessment, Treatment and Management (2nd ed.), London: Routledge.

Ireland, J.L, Birch, P. and Ireland, C.A. (2018) Human Aggression: How far have we come? in International Handbook on Aggression: Current issues and perspectives, Ireland, J.L., Birch, P. and Ireland, C.A. (eds.), London: Routledge.

Islam, R., Ingham, V., Hicks, J. & Kelly, E. (2018). From coping to adaptation: Flooding and the role of local knowledge in Bangladesh. JDisaster Risk Reduction. Available online 3 Jan 2018, currently in press https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420917304144?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb&dgcid=raven_sd_aip_email

Liao, X., Huang, X and Huang, W. (2018). Visualization of Farm Land Use by Classifying Satellite Images, Proceeding of The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, Oct 2018. (accepted; to be published by the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Maclean, C., and Charles Vandepeer, (2018). 'Military Intelligence: Expectations and Challenges', in Daniel Baldino and Rhys Crawley (Eds.), Intelligence and the function of government, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2018.

Moraro, P.  (2018) On (not) Accepting the Punishment for Civil Disobedience", The Philosophical Quarterly (online first) https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqx058/4807502?guestAccessKey=29ccc7e5-af53-47b3-bb81-a7c1c56d30d9

Moraro, P. (2018) "Is Bossnapping Uncivil?", Raisons Politiques [Special Issue on "Uncivil Disobedience"](forthcoming)

Pawsey, N., Nayeem, T and Huang, X. (2018), Use of Facebook to Engage Water Customers: A Comprehensive Study of Current UK and Australian Practices and Trends, Journal of Environmental Management (IF 4.005, 5-Year Impact Factor: 4.449, J EMA-D-18-01011, under revision)

Preece, R. (2018). Excise Taxation in ASEAN: An Analysis of the Need to Develop a Coordinated Approach to Excise Tax Policy as Part of Implementing the ASEAN Economic Community https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/excise-taxation-in-asean-an-analysis-of-the-need-to-develop-a-coo-2

Prunckun, Hank (forthcoming 2018). Counterintelligence Theory and Practice, Second Edition.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield;

Prunckun, Henry, and Whitford, Troy (forthcoming 2018). Terrorism and Counterterrorism: An Introduction. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Prunckun, Henry, writing as Oliver Yardley (forthcoming 2018), In the Garden Where We’ve Been Planted. Oregon City, OR: Champagne Books;

Prunckun, Henry, editor (2018).  Cyber Weaponry: Issues and Implications of Digital Arms New York: Springer;

Rogers, C., and Frevel, B., (2018), Higher education and the Police: an international View, Springer Pub., Cham, Switzerland.

Rogers, C., (2018) Researching sensitive topics for the police-insights from the UK, Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,

Rogers, C., (2018), Predicting problems- thoughts on big data and algorithms, Police Professional,

Rogers, C., (2018), Alley gates and domestic burglary: findings from a longitudinal study in urban south Wales, the Police Journal, vol.91 (1), 5-21

Scally, E. and Rogers, C., (2018), Police and technology- insights from the literature, International Journal of the Emergency Services,

Vandepeer, C (2018). 'Intelligence and Knowledge Development: What are the questions intelligence analysts ask?' Intelligence & national Security: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684527.2018.1454029?journalCode=fint20

Walsh, P.F (2018). Intelligence, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. Palgrave Macmillan (Springer): Basingstoke, UK

Xu, H., Huang, C., Huang, X, Xu, C., and Huang, M. (2018), Combining Convolutional Neural Network and Markov Random Field for Semantic Image Retrieval, Combining Convolutional Neural Network and Markov Random Field for Semantic Image Retrieval, Advances in Multimedia (in press)

You, R., Huang, X, Zhu, S. (2018) DeepText2GO: Improving Large-scale Protein Function Prediction with Deep Semantic Text Representation, Methods, ScienceDirect (IF 3.998, in press: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.05.026)

Raza Khan, U., Zia, T. A., Perera, K., Pearce, C. (2018).  The My Health Record (MyHR) Adoption in General Practices:  Literature Review and Future Research Direction.  The International Technology Management Review. ISSN (print) 2213-7149, ISSN (online) 1835-5269) (in-press)

Raza Khan, U., Zia, T. A., Perera, K., Pearce, C. (2018).  Perceptions and Experiences of General Practice Users about MyHealthRecord. The 7^th International Conference on Heath Information Science (HIS 2018).  October 5-7, 2018. Cairns, QLD. (in-press)

Publications - 2017

Birch, P., Vickers, M., Galovic, S, and Kennedy, M. (2017) ‘Wellbeing, Occupational Justice and Policing Practice: An ‘affirming environment’?. Police Practice and Research: An international journal 18(1): 26-36.

Birch, P., Baldry, E. and Hartley, V.H. (2017) ‘Procuring sexual services: Evidencing masculinity diversity and difference through sex work research’. Sexuality and Culture, 21(4): 1106–1119.

Birch, P., Ozanne, R. and Ireland, J.L. (2017) 'Examining the portrayal of Homophobic and Non Homophobic Aggression in print media through an Integrated Grounded Behavioural Linguistic Inquiry (IGBLI) approach'.  Journal of Forensic Practice 19(3): 239-244.

Birch, P. and Prenzler, T. (2017). Community-based Crime Prevention in Prenzler, T. (eds.) Understanding Crime Prevention: The Case Study Approach. Queensland: Australian Academic Press.

Birch, P., and Crofts, N. (2017) Law Enforcement and Public Health: Papers from the 3rd Annual Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference 2016.  Special Edition - Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice 3(3): 1-54.

Birch, P and Emmerton, E, (2017) ‘Immediate Response Service Provision for Victims of Violent Crime: An Examination of Good Practice’. Research Report for Windermere Victim Support Service, Victoria. Port Macquarie: Charles Sturt University.

Johnson, L, Dorn, Walter, Webb, Steward, Kreps, Sarah, Krieger, Schwartz, Elke, Shapiro, Sclomo, Walsh, P.F., and Wirtz James. (2017). An INS Special Forum: Intelligence and Drones/Eyes in the Sky for peacekeeping: the emergence of UAVs in UN Operations/The democratic deficit on drones/The German Approach to Drone Warfare/Pursuing peace the strategic limits of drone warfare/Seeing but unseen: intelligence drones in Israel/Drone paramilitary operations against suspected global terrorists: US and Australian perspectives/The “Terminator Conundrum’ and the future of drone warfare.  Intelligence and National Security, 32(4), 411-440.

FitzGerald, G., Rego, J., Ingham, V., Cottrell, A., Manock, I., Surjan, A., Mayner, L., Webb, C., Maguire, B., Crawley, H., Mooney, J., Toloo, S., and Archer, F. (2017). Teaching emergency and disaster management in Australia: standards for higher education providers. AJEM 32(3)22-23

Ingham, V. (April 2017). Review of the book Incident Management in Australasia: Lessons learnt from emergency responses Edited by Stuart Ellis and Kent MacCarter, CSIRO Publishing: Clayton, Victoria ISBN 9781486306176 AJEM, 32(2) 27.

Ingham, V. & Redshaw, S. (2017). Connecting Community Organisations for Disaster Preparedness, International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering. 7(1)52-64.

Ingham V, Redshaw S. (2017). Vulnerable voices on fire preparedness: Policy implications for emergency and community services collaboration. Aust J Soc Issues. 52:313–330. doi: 10.1002/ajs4.22

Ireland, J.L., Birch, P., Kolstee, J. and Ritchie, A. (2017) ‘Partner abuse and its association with emotional distress: A study exploring current LGBTI relationships’. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 54:107-117.

Islam, R., Ingham, V., Hicks, J., & Manock, I. (2017). The Changing Role of Women in Resilience, Recovery and Economic Development at the Intersection of Recurrent Disaster: A Case Study from Sirajgang, Bangladesh. Journal of Asian and African Studies. 52(1)50-67: http://jas.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/12/10/0021909614560244.full.pdf?ijkey=9JjbrF3I2UiOIjO&keytype=finite

Kennedy, M. and Birch, P (2018) ‘Changing the perception of police culture: Recognising masculinity diversity and difference in a ‘dirty hands’ vocation’.  Journal of Forensic Practice, 19(1): 1-6.

Neher, A., Jungmeister, A., Wang, C., & Burmeister, O. (2018). The effect of embedded managerial values on corporate financial outcomes. Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, 19, 165-204.

Redshaw, S., Ingham, V., McCutcheon, M., Hicks, J. and Oliver Burmeister (online first 27 Oct 2017). Assessing the impact of vulnerability on perceptions of social cohesion in the context of community resilience to disaster in the Blue Mountains, Australian Journal of Rural Health. DOI: 10.1111/ajr.12377 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/doi/10.1002/ajs4.22/full

Redshaw, S. & Ingham, V. (online first 3^rd Sept 2017) ‘Neighbourhood is if they come out and talk to you’: Neighbourly connections and vulnerable people. Journal of Sociology: http://journals.sagepub.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1177/1440783317729762

Redshaw, R., Ingham, V., Hicks, J. & Milne, J. (2017).Emergency preparedness through community sector engagement in the Blue Mountains. Australian Journal of Emergency Management. 32(2) 35-40.

Walsh, P.F. (2017). Securing State Secrets. In R. Dover, H. Dylan and M. Goodman (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Intelligence and Security (177-193). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Walsh, P.F. (2017). Teaching intelligence in the Twenty-First Century: Towards an Evidence Based Approach for Curriculum Design. Intelligence and National Security Journal, 32(7), 1005-1021.

Walsh, P.F. (2017). Improving Strategic Intelligence Analytical Practice Through Qualitative Social Research. Intelligence and National Security Journal, 32(5), 548-562.

Walsh, P.F. (2017). Making Future Leaders in the US Intelligence Community: Challenges and Opportunities. Intelligence and National Security Journal, 32(4),441-459.

Widdowson, D. (2017) Regulation of border management in Mexico. In Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, (2017) Review of the Regulation of Freight Transport in Mexico. Paris.

Widdowson, D., Blegen, B., Short, G., & Kashubsky, M. (2017). Review of Australia’s National Committee on Trade Facilitation. Canberra: CCES, CSU.

Widdowson, D., Blegen, B., Short, G., Lewis, G., Garcia-Godos, E., Kashubsky, M., & Baker, H. (2018). Review of Australia’s Progress Towards Implementation of the Single Window Concept. Canberra: CCES, CSU.

Widdowson, D., Blegen, B., Short, G., & Kashubsky, M. (2018). National committees on trade facilitation. World Customs Journal 12(1) 27-48.

Ali, Z., Imran, M., Alsulaiman, M., Zia, T. A., and Shoaib, M. (2017). A zero-watermarking algorithm for privacy protection in biomedical signals. Future Generation Computer Systems. ISSN: 0167-739X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.12.007

Majeed, A., and Zia, T. A. (2017). Multi-Layer Network Architecture for Supporting Multiple Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing and Dependable Applications (JoWUA). Published byInnovative Information Science & Technology Research Group.Vol. 8, No. 3. ISSN (print):2093-5374, ISSN (online): 2093-5382.  DOI:10.22667/JOWUA.2017.09.30.036

Zobrist, S., and Zia, T. A. (2017). Current State of Chemical Laboratory Equipment Using Virtual Machines. Research Briefs on Information & Communication Technology Evolution. Published byInnovative Information Science & Technology Research Group. ISSN: 2383-9201 http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/a6c9b6_801d2232334a4d0eb2b6d48ab53f4fa0.pdf

Rehman, S., Khan, M. A., Imran, M., Zia, T. A., and Iftikhar, M. (2017). Enhancing Quality of Service Conditions Using an X-Layer Paradigm for Ad-hoc Vehicular Communication. IEEE Access. Print ISSN: 2169-3536, Online ISSN 2169-3536. DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2717501

Khan, F. A., Haldar, N. A. H., Ali, A., Iftikhar, M., Zia, T. A., Zomaya, A. Y. (2017). A Continuous Change Detection Mechanism to Identify Anomalies in ECG Signals for WBAN-based Healthcare Environments. IEEE Access. Print ISSN: 2169-3536, Online ISSN 2169-3536. DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2714258

Philippe-Jankovic, D., Zia, T. A. (2017) Breaking VM Isolation – An In-Depth Look at the Cross Flush Reload Cache Timing Attack.  International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security. Vol. 17, No. 2. ISSN 1738-7906

Events & Latest News

Faculty Research Area Public Safety and Security Group- inaugural research symposium (7-8^th Feb)

A two day symposium served to launch the new Faculty Research Area -Public Safety and Security.  The symposium brought together at AGSPS (Canberra) 12 researchers across SOMM, CCES, AGSPS and other areas.  There were also another 18 research stakeholders at the symposium. The symposium discussed the aims and objectives of the new group and funding opportunities for public safety and security research.  It also allowed researchers to hear from other important state and federal stakeholders about how to make their research more impactful and applied to their interests.

International Police and Security Conference  - Sydney Darling Harbour 7-8^th November 2018

Prof Rogers is currently heading a team which is planning the Police and Security Conference in Sydney in November. This conference will attract international guest speakers and as well as aimed at local and national police practitioners.

Partnership in Customs Academic Research and Development (PICARD) Conference 2018

Professor David Widdowson (Member of the Scientific Conference Board) and Dr Mikhail Kashubsky from the Centre for Customs and Excise Studies (CCES) are working closely with and providing support to key officers of the World Customs Organization (WCO) who are organising this annual conference in relation to some organisational and academic aspects of the conference including selection of papers, organising and moderating a panel and a roundtable discussion.

World Customs Journal (Vol.12 No.1) Published

The World Customs Journal, which is published jointly by CSU’s Centre for Customs and Excise Studies (CCES) and the University of Muenster, has released its latest issue in March 2018. This issue of the World Customs Journal contains papers that address a range of topics such as trade data availability and use, single window implementation and interagency coordination, national trade facilitation committees, and customs valuation. The journal also has a Special Report on WCO announcement about the 2018 Edition of the WCO SAFE Framework of Standards to Security and Facilitate Global Trade.

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