Professor Marleen Easton

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Professor, Ghent University

Marleen Easton is a Professor and chair of the research group ‘Governing & Policing Security’ (GaPS) at the Department of Public Governance & Management at Ghent University. She has more than twenty years of experience conducting mostly qualitative, empirical research on policing and security related topics that include processes of (de)militarisation, community policing, radicalization, police (re)organisations, police culture, citizen participation, innovations in policing and the policing-science nexus.

Her current research focuses on three research lines: (1) the governance of security in relation to flows, (2) innovations in relation to technology and security and (3) knowledge exchange processes.

Since 2000 she combines her academic career with an active role as board member of the Belgian Centre for Policing and Security where interaction between researchers and practitioners is stimulated. Between 2014 and 2021 she was president of the Innovation Centre for Security (INNOS/IUNGOS) in Belgium.

You can find out more about Prof. dr. Marleen Easton on the Ghent University website.