Mark Israel

Mark has a degree in law from Cambridge and postgraduate qualifications in sociology (DPhil, Oxford), criminology (MPhil, Cambridge) and education (GradCertTertEd, MEdStud, Flinders). Between 1988 and 1992, Mark lectured in the United Kingdom. He moved to Flinders University in 1993 and became Associate Dean (2010-12) and Winthrop Professor of Law and Criminology (2010-16) at the University of Western Australia in 2010, Chair of the Board of Studies for the BA in 2014, and Deputy Chair of Academic Board 2015-16.

Mark is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences.

He is available to undertake consultancy in higher education, research ethics and research integrity, and criminology. He has acted as a consultant to various institutions and agencies, including the Commonwealth, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australian Governments, CSIRO, the National Health and Medical Research Council and the European Research Council, and on educational matters to a range of universities and private higher education institutions in Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

His editorial roles have included being Associate Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, and Criminal Justice Ethics and Pacific Rim Editor for Critical Criminology: an International Journal. He is or was also a member of the Editorial Boards of Teaching Sociology, Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences, Journal of Academic Ethics, Research Ethics, the Journal of Empirical Research on Human-Research Ethics, Research Integrity and Peer Review, and the International Journal for Educational Integrity.

Research

Mark has published in the areas of: criminology (crime and the media, state violence, community corrections, victims), research ethics and research integrity, higher education (teaching criminology and law), and racism (racial discrimination in recruitment, indigenous under-representation on juries, antisemitism).

Companies

• TEQSA Expert Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (2018)
• Non-Executive Director and Chair of Academic Board Stanley College (2018)
• Fellow The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) (2017)
• Fellow Academy of Social Sciences (2017)
• Senior Consultant Higher Education Evaluation & Development (HEED) Consulting (2017)
• Adjunct Professor, Social Sciences The University of Western Australia (2016)
• Principal Fellow Higher Education Academy (2012)
• Senior Consultant and Director Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services Pty Ltd (2008)
• Dean Learning and Teaching Murdoch University (2019 — 2021)

Education

• DPhil, Sociology University of Oxford (1989 - 1997)
• MPhil, Criminology University of Cambridge (1987 - 1988)
• MA, Law University of Cambridge (1984 - 1987)
• Masters of Educational Studies Flinders University (1995 — 1999)
• Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz (1984 — 1984)
• University College School, London (1975 — 1984)