Emmanuel Bunei

Research and Evaluation Fellow

College of Medicine and Public Health

place O'Keefe House, Katherine District Hospital

Dr. Emmanuel Bunei is an interdisciplinary rural criminologist and social researcher with demonstrated expertise in rural crime and criminal justice issues, program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, and a history of working in the higher education industry. I have strong collaborative research links with community, government, and non-governmental organizations and with colleagues in diverse disciplines, including economics, sociology, public health, law, agriculture, and political science. Emmanuel holds a PhD in criminology from the University of New England, Australia and BA and MA in Sociology with a focus on rural communities and areas. In 2023, he was awarded the Joseph Donnermeyer Early Research Award, a testament to his scholarly excellence and unwavering dedication to rural and remote regions and rural communities. Emmanuel is regularly called to contribute to international and regional webinars, with the most being a webinar on Crime and Place in the Making organized by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

 

Emmanuel is currently supporting the Katherine Justice Reinvestment project as a Research and Evaluation Fellow at Flinders University. Emmanuel is responsible for research and evaluation activities of the KTJR project, contributing to the ethics proposal, project design and implementation, the collection and analysis of data, and knowledge translation activities, including the preparation of high-quality manuscripts, reports, and conference presentations. Emmanuel Bunei is also a research associate at the Centre for Rural Criminology at the University of New England.

Qualifications

PhD (Criminology), University of New England, 2022

MA in Sociology, Moi University, 2014

BA (Sociology), Moi University, 2009

Honours, awards and grants

UNE IPRA PHD Scholarship, 2018

Joseph F. Donnermeyer Rural Criminologist Award, 2023