Sharon Pickering (academic)

Sharon Pickering FASSA is an academic who serves as the Vice-Chancellor of Monash University since 2024.^[1]

Sharon Pickering FASSA
Pickering in 2025
Awards	Australian Human Rights Award for Print and Online Media 2012 Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 2018
Academic background
Alma mater	Monash University (PhD)
Thesis	Women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland
Academic work
Discipline	Criminology

Pickering graduated from the University of Melbourne with a PhD in 2000 for her thesis Women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland.^[2]

Pickering is a scholar of criminology who earned her the Australian Human Rights Commission Award.^[3]

In 2018, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences.^[4]