Dr Annette Robertson
Interim Head of Department
Department of Social Sciences; Glasgow School for Business and Society
Dr Annette Robertson has a multi-disciplinary background, having studied Russian and French for her first degree (BA Hons in Interpreting and Translating from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh); business administration for her master's (MBA from University of Exeter with specialization in International Business); and Comparative Labour Studies/Sociology at PhD level (University of Warwick).
She previously worked as a translator and upon completion of her doctoral research worked as a research consultant on various research projects in Russia, Georgia, and Romania. She joined Glasgow Caledonian in December 2007, having been a Research Associate and then Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester from 2001 till then.
Her research interests are in crime and policing in Russia and the former Soviet Union, police reform/the development of democratic policing in transition states, international criminal justice policy transfer, policing young people, and student victimisation.
She is a Member of the British Society of Criminology and Member of the European Society of Criminology.