Tim Legrand

Dr Legrand received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Birmingham in 2008. He joined the ANU in February 2012, and the National Security College in May 2014. Prior to joining the National Security College, he was a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security at Griffith University (2010-12) and the ANU (2012-). He has also held visiting research fellowships at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Johns Hopkins University and The University of Stockholm.

In Australia, he regularly presents his research on the governance of security (aviation, maritime and critical infrastructure protection) to the Commonwealth and State governments and he has provided public submissions to the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor and the Queensland Parliament on counter-terrorism and security legislation.

Through the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis (Uni. of Canberra), he has also delivered advanced training in Public Policy, Public Administration and Public Sector Management to Commonwealth and ACT government officials. In the United Kingdom, Tim has worked as a policy consultant for the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Health and the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Dr Legrand currently holds adjunct positions as Associate Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra and Research Fellow at Griffith University.

Dr Legrand's interdisciplinary research concerns the structures, agents and processes of international relations and public administration. His work draws on, and contributes to political science, law, international relations, security studies and public policy around several research streams:

The governance of national security
International policy transfer
Evidence-based policy-making
Transgovernmental policy networks
Emergency policy and crisis management.

These research interests are coalesced by a common emphasis on the emergence of transnational challenges to the state. Specifically, his workl explores the the question of how public policy officials understand and manage the dynamics of cross-border governance dilemmas induced by growing interdependence on the one hand, and internationalising threats on the other.

His research has been published in leading international journals, including Public Administration, Review of International Studies, Policy Studies, British Politics, European Political Science, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis and the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences. He is the co-editor (with Professor Allan McConnell) of Emergency Policy (Ashgate, 2012); the co-author (with Saskia Hufnagel) of Extreme Events: Legal and Policy Challenges in Managing Crises (Ashgate, forthcoming) and has contributed a number of chapters to edited collections.