CASSANDRA CROSS
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Dr Cassandra Cross is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from Queensland University of Technology.
Dr Cassandra Cross is currently Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching), Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice. She also holds a position as Professor in the School of Justice, QUT. In 2021, she completed a Senior Research Fellowship, with the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) on the topic of romance fraud. Previously, Dr Cross worked as a research/policy officer with the Queensland Police Service, where she commenced research on the topic of online fraud and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2011.
Since taking up her position at QUT in 2012, she has published in this area across several journals and continued her research into fraud focusing on policing, disruption, prevention and victim support. She has received over AUD $3.1 million in grants and industry funding to further this work.
Dr Cross is regularly requested by media to provide insights into current events and is a regular speaker at community events across the country. She is co-author (with Professor Mark Button) of the book entitled “Cyber frauds, scams, and their victims”, which was published by Routledge in 2017.
