Russell Brewer
@russellbrewer.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Criminology at Adelaide University | Researching cybercrime, policing, digital forensics & ways to keep kids safe online | Diehard Canucks fan.
📍 Adelaide, South Australia
🌐 www.AdelaideCybercrime.org
📍 Adelaide, South Australia
🌐 www.AdelaideCybercrime.org
🚨 The Adelaide Cybercrime Laboratory is hiring! We are seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in machine-learning enabled digital forensics. Applications close November 9. For more informational about the position, click here: lnkd.in/gGtgKJYW
October 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
🚨 The Adelaide Cybercrime Laboratory is hiring! We are seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in machine-learning enabled digital forensics. Applications close November 9. For more informational about the position, click here: lnkd.in/gGtgKJYW
Congratulations to our brilliant lab researcher Caitlan Miller - who graduated earlier today with a Masters of Philosophy. Her thesis is entitled “Digital drift, online sexual behaviours and internet pathology in adolescents”. Looking forward to seeing this important work in print!
September 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Congratulations to our brilliant lab researcher Caitlan Miller - who graduated earlier today with a Masters of Philosophy. Her thesis is entitled “Digital drift, online sexual behaviours and internet pathology in adolescents”. Looking forward to seeing this important work in print!
Very excited to be awarded an ARC Linkage Project to advance research that will improve child sexual abuse victim identification capabilities. Read more here:
able.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/20...
able.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/20...
New ARC Linkage Grant to improve victim identification capabilities
This ARC-funded project will develop and implement new analytical methods to both identify and facilitate the rescue of victims of child sexual abuse.
able.adelaide.edu.au
September 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Very excited to be awarded an ARC Linkage Project to advance research that will improve child sexual abuse victim identification capabilities. Read more here:
able.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/20...
able.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/20...
Adelaide University is recruiting an Associate Professor in #Criminology - the area of specialisation is open. Applications close next week (Feb 5). See below link or DM me for more info about our brilliant team. Please spread the word and repost!
Link to ad: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Link to ad: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
January 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Adelaide University is recruiting an Associate Professor in #Criminology - the area of specialisation is open. Applications close next week (Feb 5). See below link or DM me for more info about our brilliant team. Please spread the word and repost!
Link to ad: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Link to ad: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
🚨NEW JOB ALERT (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, CRIMINOLOGY)🚨
Adelaide University Criminology is seeking applications for an Associate Professor (Level D) - area of specialisation open. See below link for more info, or reach out directly for a confidential chat: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Adelaide University Criminology is seeking applications for an Associate Professor (Level D) - area of specialisation open. See below link for more info, or reach out directly for a confidential chat: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Come and celebrate our 150th year. Explore our events, our history, and the foundation we’ve built for the future.
careers.adelaide.edu.au
January 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🚨NEW JOB ALERT (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, CRIMINOLOGY)🚨
Adelaide University Criminology is seeking applications for an Associate Professor (Level D) - area of specialisation open. See below link for more info, or reach out directly for a confidential chat: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Adelaide University Criminology is seeking applications for an Associate Professor (Level D) - area of specialisation open. See below link for more info, or reach out directly for a confidential chat: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Reposted by Russell Brewer
📚New research out today - examining the risk factors associated with online fraud perpetration amongst adolescents. Download here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 26, 2024 at 6:28 AM
📚New research out today - examining the risk factors associated with online fraud perpetration amongst adolescents. Download here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Great to welcome so many colleagues to the University of Adelaide last week for our Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Research Showcase. Great to see so many brilliant and interdisciplinary projects featured!
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Great to welcome so many colleagues to the University of Adelaide last week for our Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Research Showcase. Great to see so many brilliant and interdisciplinary projects featured!
Congratulations on the publication of your first book Thomas Swearingen! @thswear.bsky.social is a researcher based in our Lab - and is working alongside our industry partners to develop pathbreaking digital forensic tools to combat crime online.
November 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Congratulations on the publication of your first book Thomas Swearingen! @thswear.bsky.social is a researcher based in our Lab - and is working alongside our industry partners to develop pathbreaking digital forensic tools to combat crime online.
Reposted by Russell Brewer
I started an academic criminologists/criminal justice scholars starter pack.
This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful.
go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z
#ASC2024 #criminology
This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful.
go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z
#ASC2024 #criminology
November 15, 2024 at 1:22 AM
I started an academic criminologists/criminal justice scholars starter pack.
This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful.
go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z
#ASC2024 #criminology
This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful.
go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z
#ASC2024 #criminology
Check out our team's latest publication examining the benefits and risks of using cloud-based technologies in child sexual abuse investigations:
📖 New publication alert: www.aic.gov.au/publications...
October 21, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Check out our team's latest publication examining the benefits and risks of using cloud-based technologies in child sexual abuse investigations:
📚New publication alert: academic.oup.com/ijlit/articl...
August 19, 2024 at 12:58 PM
📚New publication alert: academic.oup.com/ijlit/articl...
📢 Excited to welcome A/Prof Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar (Purdue University) as our @UniofAdelaide International Fellow. Join us this afternoon to hear more about her interdisciplinary approach to combatting child sexual exploitation offending. For more info:
adelaidecybercrime.org/seminar-series
adelaidecybercrime.org/seminar-series
Technology and Human behaviour Seminar Series — Home
adelaidecybercrime.org
July 10, 2024 at 2:59 AM
📢 Excited to welcome A/Prof Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar (Purdue University) as our @UniofAdelaide International Fellow. Join us this afternoon to hear more about her interdisciplinary approach to combatting child sexual exploitation offending. For more info:
adelaidecybercrime.org/seminar-series
adelaidecybercrime.org/seminar-series
📣 Check out the latest findings from the ARC Digital Youth Survey: Exploring the role of self-control across distinct patterns of cyber-deviance in adolescence. Available here #openaccess doi.org/10.1177/0306...
January 8, 2024 at 3:29 AM
📣 Check out the latest findings from the ARC Digital Youth Survey: Exploring the role of self-control across distinct patterns of cyber-deviance in adolescence. Available here #openaccess doi.org/10.1177/0306...
A privilege to participate in the ANZSOC 2023 keynote panel on technology and criminal justice with my fantastic colleagues!
December 7, 2023 at 3:18 AM
A privilege to participate in the ANZSOC 2023 keynote panel on technology and criminal justice with my fantastic colleagues!
📣 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER - only a handful spots left for next week's workshop! Join over 100 researchers and practitioners in Adelaide for this inaugural event. Registrations close on Nov 29 at 9:00AM (ACDT). More info: www.csaresearch.org
November 27, 2023 at 11:22 PM
📣 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER - only a handful spots left for next week's workshop! Join over 100 researchers and practitioners in Adelaide for this inaugural event. Registrations close on Nov 29 at 9:00AM (ACDT). More info: www.csaresearch.org
🚨 Early-bird registrations close TODAY - get in quick!
For more info click here: www.csaresearch.org
For more info click here: www.csaresearch.org
October 31, 2023 at 1:28 AM
🚨 Early-bird registrations close TODAY - get in quick!
For more info click here: www.csaresearch.org
For more info click here: www.csaresearch.org
📣 REGISTER NOW for the Child Sexual Abuse Reduction Research Network Workshop in Adelaide on December 4-5. Discounted early-bird registrations only available for a limited time (until October 31)! The full program can be downloaded here: csaresearch.org
October 26, 2023 at 1:28 AM
📣 REGISTER NOW for the Child Sexual Abuse Reduction Research Network Workshop in Adelaide on December 4-5. Discounted early-bird registrations only available for a limited time (until October 31)! The full program can be downloaded here: csaresearch.org
📣 Check out the latest paper from the Adelaide Cybercrime Lab exploring the ethical and legal use of web scrapers by #cybercrime and #cybersecurity researchers. Funded by the Cyber Security CRC. Available here (open access): doi.org/10.1093/ijli...
October 9, 2023 at 2:04 AM
📣 Check out the latest paper from the Adelaide Cybercrime Lab exploring the ethical and legal use of web scrapers by #cybercrime and #cybersecurity researchers. Funded by the Cyber Security CRC. Available here (open access): doi.org/10.1093/ijli...
Wonderful to connect with brilliant colleagues in Germany this morning at the Human Factor in #Cybercrime Conference - and share our latest research on combatting CSAM!
September 11, 2023 at 12:24 PM
Wonderful to connect with brilliant colleagues in Germany this morning at the Human Factor in #Cybercrime Conference - and share our latest research on combatting CSAM!