Sharon Pickering (academic)

Sharon Pickering
Pickering in 2025
AwardsAustralian Human Rights Award for Print and Online Media
2012
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
2018
Academic background
Alma materMonash University (PhD)
ThesisWomen, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland
Academic work
DisciplineCriminology

Sharon Pickering FASSA is an academic who serves as the Vice-Chancellor of Monash University since 2024.

Pickering graduated from the University of Melbourne with a PhD in 2000 for her thesis Women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland.

Pickering is a scholar of criminology who earned her the Australian Human Rights Commission Award.

In 2018, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences.