Melissa Jardine
Biography
Publications
Melissa Jardine, PhD, is a Partner Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project exploring gender-responsive policing in the Pacific with the University of the South Coast. She is also a consultant for UNODC’s Global HIV/AIDS Section and the Regional Office for Eastern Africa.
Dr Jardine is a former Australian police officer and security sector reform advisor. She travelled to Kabul in March 2021 on assignment for the United Nations. She is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee for the International Association of Women Police. Her PhD was on policing in a changing Vietnam. She is the author of Women, Policing and Security: Reforming the Afghan National Police, published in 2022.
A looming police shortage in the Pacific: Drug use can cripple a male workforce
The labour and public health consequences from expanding drugs surge in the region must be acted upon.
Far from the limelight, forgotten Afghans continue the fight
Accounts from Kabul hold lessons on how easily the world moves on, and some takeaways for Ukraine.
Would China? Australia’s chance to back women police in the Pacific
Promoting gender equality and enhancing maritime law enforcement will ensure Australia stands apart.
The world must evacuate women police in Afghanistan
The international community trained local women to put their lives on the line but has now abandoned them to danger.
Policing Vietnam: How Australia could help
Men comprise 90% of the country’s police, and a common complaint is male officers pay scant attention to women’s issues.
