Claire Moran is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences. She is a sociologist of migration, youth and digital cultures, with a specific emphasis on African youth experiences, and the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia. She is currently engaged in research that examines community-led surveillance and policing through social media platforms and the evaluation of the Public Intoxication Reform in Victoria.

Claire's research has been published in the a number of peer-reviewed academic journals Media, Culture and Society, the Journal of Youth Studies, Convergence and the Australasian Review of African Studies. She has also been featured in The Conversation

With over a decade of teaching experience in Australia and abroad, Claire has taught subjects across the disciplines of Criminology, Sociology and Media and Cultural Studies.