Dr Claire Ferguson has joined the School of Justice and the Crime and Justice Research Centre in the Faculty of Law, QUT. She is a lecturer, researcher and consultant in forensic criminology. Her areas of interest generally surround offender behaviour during the commission of violent crimes. Her doctoral research examined offender evidence manipulation in homicide cases, specifically focusing on staged crime scenes and how offenders attempt to ‘get away with murder’. This year she has published papers on staged suicide scenes, domestic homicides staged as burglaries, and how to detect evidence manipulation at a crime scene.
Dr. Ferguson has been nominated for the ‘Excellence in Teaching and Learning’ award and the ‘UniJobs Lecturer of the Year’ award by her students. She maintains an active social media profile, and often provides commentary in print media and on radio.
As an early career academic, Claire’s research and supervision interests have been diverse. She has participated in several multidisciplinary research projects covering a range of criminology and forensic psychology issues, for example treatment for arsonists, and criminal defenses for battered women who kill their abusers. Recently, Claire has published on the use of arson in Australian homicide cases, false allegations of sexual assault, and other issues surrounding forensic criminology, criminal profiling, and homicide investigation.
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