Karl Roberts

Consultant World Health Organisation Health Security, Professor and Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice Western Sydney University and Senior Research Associate of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg, Western Sydney University

I am Consultant in Health Security: Policing Pandemics for the World Health Organisation Geneva, Professor of Policing and Criminal Justice at Western Sydney University and Senior Research Associate of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg.

I have a PhD in Psychology, MSc in Forensic Psychology and BSc Hons in Psychology. I am a Fellow of the U.K. higher Education Academy, Chartered Forensic Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an FBI trained hostage negotiator.

My research focuses on police procedures particularly policing during pandemics and health security, and violence prevention focusing upon domestic abuse, harmful traditional practices and stalking.

Experience

2013–present

Professor and Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice, Western Sydney University
2014–present

Adjunct Professor of Pacific Policing, University of the South Pacific

Education

2001

Leicester University, MSc Forensic Psychology
1994

Brunel University, PhD
1989

Dundee University, BSc (Honours) Psychology

Professional Memberships

Associate Fellow British Psychological Society
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Chartered Forensic Psychologist