Louise Skilling

Curriculum Manager 4311617

Dr Louise Skilling

PgCLTHE (HEA Fellowship), PhD in Criminology and Social Policy, Masters by Research in Development Geography, BSc (Hons) Development and Health in Disaster Management

Curriculum Manager
Goulburn

Profile

Louise has worked for over twenty years in the field of human security and education. She has operational policing experience and worked with international organisations and the United Nations in the field of curriculum design, development of training and project materials, project evaluations, research, integrating results-based management systems, facilitating trainings and establishing new community safety projects.

Prior to becoming the Curriculum Manager with the School of Policing Studies with Charles Sturt University Louise worked for four years with the University of South Wales implementing the Police Education Qualification Framework with five police services in England and Wales.

Louise has a PhD from the International Centre for Policing & Security, areas researched included community crime prevention, community safety and procedural justice. She has published in peer reviewed journals and presented at numerous international conferences, including EUROCRIM, the Stockholm Criminology Symposium and the United Nation Programme of Action.

Teaching

  • Senior Lecturer in Policing Practice, University of South Wales
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Research

  • Research interests include policing education, community crime prevention, community safety and procedural justice.
  • Current project – ‘student officer research projects: evidence-based knowledge embedded into policing practice?’

Other Information

  • Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
  • Member of the Commonwealth’s Pool of Specialist for the Countering Violent Extremism Unit.