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Biography
Rebecca Wickes is an Associate Professor in Criminology and the Director for the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. She is the lead investigator of the Australian Community Capacity Study, a multi-million, multisite, longitudinal study of place. Dr Wickes’ research focuses on physical and demographic changes in urban communities and their influence on social relationships, inclusion and the concentration of social problems, in particular crime, social exclusion and public disorder.
She has published substantive works in Criminology, Journal for Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Forces, Social Science Research, the Sociological Review and the Journal for Urban Affairs among others. Dr. Wickes is the Vice President of the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology, the Associate Editor for the Australia New Zealand Journal of Criminology and is on the advisory board for Welcoming Cities.
Dr Wickes was awarded the ANZSOC New Scholar of the Year Prize and received an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award from 2012 through to 2015. She has supervised numerous honours and PhD students to completion.
External positions
Associate Editor, Australia New Zealand Journal of Criminology
Vice President, Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology
Advisory Board Member, Welcoming Cities
Research area keywords
- Ecology of crime
- Criminological Theory
- Crime prevention
- Community resilience
- Quantitative methods
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Projects 2013 2021
Cultivating empathy through conversation: Developing a randomised trial for reducing Islamophobia
Benier, K., Ladegaard, I., Wickes, R. & Faulkner, N.
22/07/19 → 30/09/20
Project: Research
Social Cohesion and Pro-social Responses to Negative Perceptions of Crime
Lee, M., Wickes, R., Jackson, J., Ellis, J. & Keel, C.
22/05/19 → 21/05/20
Project: Research
Community Safety Networks Project Evaluation
Wickes, R., Forbes-Mewett, H., Gordon, E., Blaustein, J., Benier, K., Pickering, S., Powell, R., Hargreaves, K., Keel, C. & Helps, N.
28/02/18 → 31/10/19
Project: Research
BC-GRIP Encouraging Australians to be more inclusive
Hsieh, W., Wickes, R., Faulkner, N. & Smith, L.
27/02/18 → 25/02/21
Project: Research
The Social Impact of Family Separation on Refugee Settlement and Inclusion in Australia
Wickes, R., Powell, R. & Van Kooy, J.
18/02/19 → 14/06/19
Project: Research
Research Output 2006 2019
Community social capital and individual functioning in the post‐disaster context
Wickes, R., Zahnow, R., Taylor, M. & Corcoran, J., 2019, In : Disasters. 43, 2, p. 261-288 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Neighbourhood social conduits and resident social cohesion
Wickes, R., Zahnow, R., Corcoran, J. & Hipp, J. R., 2019, In : Urban Studies. 56, 1, p. 226-248 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
The social impacts of family separation on refugee settlement and inclusion in Australia
Wickes, R., Van Kooy, J., Powell, R. & Moran, C., 28 Aug 2019, 69 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
Open Access
A sense of belonging in Australia: examining settlement experiences for Chinese and Indian migrants. Final report to the Scanlon Foundation.
Wickes, R. L., Forbes-Mewett, H. M., Markus, A. B. & Keel, C. J., Jan 2018Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
International students in Australia: A review of the literature. Final report to the Scanlon Foundation
Forbes-Mewett, H. M., Wickes, R. L., Markus, A. B. & Nguyen, K. T., 10 Jan 2018, 75 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
Activities 2018 2019
- 5 Contribution to conference
2019 Victorian Transcultural Mental Health Forum: 'Doing it Differently - Putting 'community' at the centre of mental health practice'
Rebecca Wickes (Keynote/plenary speaker)1 Aug 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2018
Leanne Weber (Organiser), Rebecca Leigh Wickes (Invited speaker), Jarrett Blume Blaustein (Invited speaker), Kathryn Jayne Benier (Invited speaker), Sara Leanne Maher (Invited speaker), Diana Johns (Invited speaker)5 Dec 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
11th Liveable Cities Conference 2018
Rebecca Wickes (Keynote/plenary speaker)17 Jul 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
'Informal social control and crime prevention: Do the actions of ordinary citizens prevent crime?
Rebecca Wickes (Keynote/plenary speaker)6 Jun 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
'Safer communities' at the Future of Policing symposium
Rebecca Wickes (Invited speaker)23 Aug 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press / Media
Designing Future Cities, Episode 12, A Different Lens
Markus Jung, Maud Cassaignau, Rebecca Wickes, Megan Farrelly, Carl Grodach, Graham Currie, John Grundy & Paul Francis
13/03/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
'I'm black … I'm seen as a threat': Crime and panic on the streets of Melbourne
6/11/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
Media coverage of African offenders 'skewed', warns Melbourne chief judge
5/11/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Fact check: Offending among African Australians has not been examined systematically or quantitatively
16/10/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Crime statistics in Victoria can be trusted: Audit
5/09/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment