Introduction
Dr Laura Bedford is a Lecturer in the Criminology at Deakin University. Laura has a PhD in Criminology awarded by the University of Queensland. Her thesis, Randomised Controlled Trials in Policing: An Organisational Learning Perspective, focused on the challenge of translating rigorous criminological research into evidence-based policy and practice in police organisations. She has led and contributed to a range of collaborative research projects and programs of research, and written numerous research reports and scholarly papers. She worked as an embedded criminologist at the Queensland Police Service (QPS), where she was the lead researcher on a two-year randomised controlled field evaluation of the role and impact of frontline mobile technology. Currently, Laura is working to advance knowledge related to green criminology, environmental crime, resistance and activism. Laura has worked for many years in complex, multisectoral contexts where she has gained a solid understanding of the challenge of engaging stakeholders to initiate and implement high quality, inclusive policy research, and translate good research into sound, implementable and effective policy.