Alan Beckley Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia 2015

Alan Beckley

Alan Beckley, MSc, LLM, LLB Alan Beckley is Acting Director of the Office of Widening Participation at University of Western Sydney (UWS). He also holds the post of Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences & Psychology at UWS and is an Associate Investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS). From 2010-12, Alan was a Senior Lecturer, Policing and Law Enforcement, in the Australian Graduate School of Policing & Security, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, where he taught several post-graduate subject areas, mainly Police Leadership and Management. Prior to this, in England, he was a management consultant specialising in assignments in the education sector, criminal justice, central and local government. He formerly served for 30 years as a police officer in the UK, where he published many articles and books on policing subjects. He is an FBI National Academy Graduate from Session 160 (1990). He is currently studying for a PhD with University of Western Sydney on the subject of policing, ethics and human rights.