Professor Margaret Mitchell

• Qualifications  
• Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Associations 
• Contact Details

Qualifications

PhD in Psychology, University of Glasgow
MSc in Psychology, University of Calgary, Canada
MA in Psychology, University of Glasgow

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Current Projects

Police Leadership in the 21st Century: Redesigning Roles and Practices, Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (2009). Awarded: $428,000
Margaret Mitchell, Seumas Miller (ANU), Tim Prenzler (Griffith Uni.), John Kleinig (Charles Sturt Uni.), Greg Chilvers (Police Assoc. of NSW), Steven Grover (Uni. of Otago) and Vincent Hughes (WA Police Academy).
Industry Partners: NSW Police Force, WA Police, University of Otago

City of Gosnells, Western Australia
‘STR8 Talking’ Community Capacity Building
Attorney General Commonwealth National Community Crime Prevention Programme, awarded 2007

Intuition, expertise or system? Decision making in criminal investigations, with E. Grote, awarded 2007
Industry Collaboration Grant with ECU and Western Australia Police

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Selected Publications

Books

Mitchell, M. & Casey. J. (eds) (2007) Police Leadership and Management, Federation Press Publishers, Sydney. ISBN 978 186287 649 1, 290pp

Mitchell, M. (ed) (2007) Remember Me: Constructing Immortality. Routledge: New York. ISBN 0415954843 (hbk) ISBN 0415954851, 249pp

Mitchell, M. (ed) (1997) The Aftermath of Road Accidents: Psychological, Social and Legal Consequences of an. Everyday Trauma. Routledge: London, ISBN 0- 415-13052-2 (hbk) 0-415-13053-2 (pbk) 261pp

Book chapters

Mitchell, M. (2008) Investigations: Improving Practice and Building Capacity. In A J Brown (ed), Whistleblowing in the Australian Public Sector: First Report of the Australian Research Council ‘Whistling While They Work’ Project, Australia & New Zealand School of Government Research Series / ANU E-Press.

Mitchell, M. & Jennett, C. (2007) Research literacy in police organizations: A luxury that we can afford. In Ruiz, J. & Hummer, D. (Eds) Handbook of Police Administration, Taylor & Francis: New York.

Mitchell, M. (2007) Evidence based policy and practice in police management. In Mitchell & Casey (Eds) Police Leadership and Management, Federation Press Law Publishers, Sydney, NSW.

Mitchell, M. & Casey, J. (2007) Community-Police Consultation: What is it and what is it intended to do? In Mitchell & Casey (Eds) Police Leadership and Management, Federation Press Law Publishers, Sydney, NSW

Casey, J. & Mitchell, M. (2007) Requirements of police managers and leaders from sergeant to commissioner, In Mitchell & Casey (Eds) Police Leadership and Management, Federation Press Law Publishers, Sydney, NSW.

Grote, E. & Mitchell, M. (2007) Investigative Interviewing: A research note from Western Australia. In Mitchell & Casey (Eds) Police Leadership and Management, Federation Press Law Publishers, Sydney, NSW.

Casey, J. & Mitchell, M. (2007) Police community consultation in Australia: Working with a conundrum. In Ruiz, J. & Hummer, D. (Eds) Handbook of Police Administration, Taylor & Francis: New York.

Mitchell, M. (2007) Constructing immortality: The role of the dead in everyday life. In Mitchell, M. (Ed) Remember Me: Constructing Immortality. Routledge: New York. p1-18.

Lennon, J. J. & Mitchell, M. (2007) Dark tourism: The role of sites of death in tourism. In Mitchell, M. (Ed) Remember Me: Constructing Immortality. Routledge: New York. p167-178.

Mitchell, M. (2000) Psychological distress in police officers attending serious and fatal road traffic accidents. In Hickling, E. and Blanchard, E. (Eds.) International Handbook on Road Trauma. Elsevier Science, The Netherlands.

Mitchell, M. (1999) A current view from the UK on post incident care: 'Debriefing', 'Defusing' and just talking about it, In Paton, D. and Violanti, J. (Eds) Traumatic Stress in Police Organisations. Springfield: Illinois.

Mitchell, M. (1997) Death and injury on the road. (in) The Aftermath of Road Accidents: Psychological, Social and Legal Consequences of an Everyday Trauma, Mitchell, M. (ed), Routledge: London. p3 - 14

Hetherington A., Munro, A. and Mitchell, M (1997) At the scene: Road accidents and the police. (in) Mitchell, M. (ed) The Aftermath of Road Accidents: Psychological, Social and Legal Consequences of an Everyday Trauma, Routledge: London. p113-122.

Mitchell, M. (1997) Community disasters: help-seeking by community residents following the Lockerbie Air Disaster, In Black, D., Newman, M., Harris-Hendriks, J. and Mezey, G. (Eds) Psychological Trauma: A developmental approach. Royal College of Psychiatrists: London.

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Journal articles

Den Heyer, G. Mitchell, M. Ganesh, S. & Devery, C. (2008) An Econometric Method of Allocating Police Resources. International Journal of Police Science and Management, Vol. 10(2), p192–213.

Government and other reports

Grote, E., Mitchell, M., Oliver, R., & Vanderford, S. (2007) Language Use in Investigative Interviews: A comparative study of a ‘pen-and-paper’ method and an audio-assisted method. Faculty of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University.

Mitchell, M., Boyle, J. and Smith, S. (2001) Sickness Absence in Lothian and Borders Police. Lothian and Borders Police: Edinburgh, Scotland.

Mitchell, M., Boyle, J. and Smith, S. (2001) Alcohol, Crime and Policing Practice: Policies and Perceptions. Scottish Executive.

Mitchell, M., Poole, D. and Stevenson, K. (2000) Managing Post Incident Reactions in the Police Service. Contract Research Monograph. Health and Safety Executive Policy Directorate. Health and Safety Executive Books. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office: London. ISBN 0 7176 1846 3

Mitchell, M. and Hamilton, R. (1999) Health Directions: A Study of the Health and Welfare of Strathclyde Police Officers. Strathclyde Police: Glasgow.

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Associations

Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Graduate School of Policing, Charles Sturt University

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