Researcher Profile

Tim Legrand

Overview

A/Professor Legrand's research is concerned with national and international dimensions of global security decision–making, particularly in transnational networks and institutions. His work traverses a range of security themes, principally in global blacklisting and sanctions, digital security, terrorism, political violence and political exclusion. This research is oriented around a cross-pollination of public administration (law, sociology and public policy) literatures and International Relations (critical security studies, global governance) perspectives to navigate the complex terrain of security in domestic and international spaces.

His research draws widely from critical scholarship in security studies and beyond, using an array of analytical methods that illuminate how threats are constructed and conceived, and how policies and power are deployed. He is also leading research in computational social science (Data61 and Flinders Uni) that develops network-based models of social media, and machine-learning in large qualitative datasets.

Beyond academia:

A/Professor Legrand engages widely with governments, NGOs and IGOs. He works with the UN as an advisor on blacklisting and sanctions in East Africa and Afghanistan; his research has been cited in the International Court of Justice in The Hague; and he consults to international NGOs on blacklisting and sanctions compliance. In 2015-16 he was appointed expert advisor to the Commonwealth Inspector of Transport Security on aviation and maritime security. His research has been used in training for the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, The Department of Home Affairs, Department of Defence, Australian Federal Police and Prime Minister & Cabinet. His work has also formed the basis of submissions to a Queensland Parliamentary committee, the COAG Review of Counter-Terrorism Legislation and the Commonwealth Independent National Security Legislation Monitor. Tim has a professional background in policy, having worked with the UK's Home Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Departments of Health and Communities and Local Government. In addition to delivering public policy training to federal officials in Canberra, he has also delivered policy training to government officials from Bhutan, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam.