BIOGRAPHY FOR
PROFESSOR ROSS HOMEL AO
Ross Homel, Ph.D., is Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith
University in Brisbane, Australia, and was Director of the Griffith Institute for Social and
Behavioural Research, a multi-centre network of 200 researchers, from 2008–2010. He has also
served as Head of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director of the Australian
Research Council Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance; and a Commissioner of
the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission. In 2003 he worked with the Australian Research
Alliance for Children and Youth to establish a research network to promote child well-being.
He is a former Board member of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, is a
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and has won numerous awards for his
research on the crime prevention. He has published three monographs and seven edited
collections on crime and violence prevention, as well as more than one hundred peer-reviewed
papers and chapters and numerous high impact government reports. His accomplishments
were recognized in January 2008 when he was appointed an Officer in the General Division of
the Order of Australia (AO) “for service to education, particularly in the field of criminology,
through research into the causes of crime, early intervention and prevention methods.”
In May 2008 he was recognized with an award from the Premier of Queensland as a
‘Queensland Great’, “for his contribution to Queensland’s reputation for research excellence,
the development of social policy and justice reform, and helping Queensland’s disadvantaged
communities.” In December 2008 he was shortlisted for 2009 Australian of the Year, and in
November 2010 received the American Society of Criminology Sellin-Glueck Award for
criminological scholarship that considers problems of crime and justice as they are manifested
outside the United States, internationally or comparatively.