Richard Evans

Richard Evans is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research. He is currently working on an ARC-funded research project Exploring the Experience of Security in the Australian Vietnamese Community: Practical Implications for Policing. The four-year study explores practical solutions to improve the effectiveness of community policing strategies with Vietnamese Australians.

He is also writing a book for Melbourne University Publishing on disasters in Australian history, which will be published in 2010.

Richard’s interests include social and political history, crime and policing, media, the nature of community, social justice, and religion. He has taught at every level of higher education, in subjects as diverse as media law, European history and criminology. He was a journalist for ten years before embarking on an academic career.

In addition to more than 300 newspaper and magazine articles, his publications include:

‘“A menace to this realm”:  The New Guard, and the New South Wales Police’, to be published in History Australia, 2008

‘Wainer, Bertram Barney’ in John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography: 1940–1980, Pik-Z, Vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, 2008

The Pyjama Girl Mystery: A true story of murder, obsession and lies, Scribe, Melbourne, 2004

Constructing Australia (with Alex West), Mungunyah Press, Melbourne, 2007

‘A passion for white elephants: Some lessons from Australia’s experience of nation building’ in John Butcher (ed), Australia Under Construction: Nation-building past, present and future, ANU Press, 2008

‘Reporting a “Mercenary and Inglorious War”: The Argus, the Boer War and Breaker Morant’, in Muriel Porter (ed), The Argus: The life and death of a great Melbourne newspaper, 1848–1957, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2003

‘The Glass Coffin’, in Kerry Greenwood (ed), On Murder 2: True crime writing in Australia, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2002

Office: EW203
Telephone: +61 3 9214 4569
Email: rwevans@swin.edu.au