Professor Marleen Easton

Marleen Easton is Professor at the Department of Public Governance and Management, Ghent University.

She has thirty years of experience conducting qualitative, empirical research on policing and security related topics that include processes of (de)militarisation, community policing, radicalisation, 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. Easton is a member of the Evolving Securities Initiative.

In March 2022 she was became an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology. Since 2000, she has combined her academic career with an active role as board member of the Belgian Centre for Policing and Security. From 2014-2021, she was President of the Innovation Centre for Security (INNOS/IUNGOS) in Belgium.

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