Clifford Shearing

Expertise: Environmental, AI and physical security with a focus on the development of theoretical understandings that can be used to enhance the quality of security governance, risk and regulation.

Professor Clifford Shearing holds professorships at the Universities of Cape Town and Toronto, as well as the Australian National University and is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford. Clifford co-leads the Global Risk Governance programme (GRG), within the Law Faculty, at UCT. There are two principal research foci with the GRG, namely Environmental Security and Artificial Intelligence. The GRG supports an active Social Responsibility hub that focuses on supporting emerging leaders concerned with enhancing environmental security and reducing urban harms.

A major focus of Shearing's academic work has been on broadening theboundaries of criminology with a primary focus on security governance. For further details, see: cliffordshearing.com