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School of Social Sciences, Law, and Education



Matt Bowden

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Senior Lecturer

Email: matt.bowden@tudublin.ie

Tel: +353 1 2205444

Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7840-2542

Qualifications

  • BA Moderatorship in Business Economic and Social Studies [Sociology and Politics], University of Dublin, Trinity College, 1993.
  • PhD, School of Social Science and Philosophy, University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2008, supervised by: Professor Robert J. Holton.
  • PgDip Learning and Teaching [Third Level], Dublin Institute of Technology, 2010.
  • Diploma in Addiction Studies, Trinity College Dublin, 1984.

Teaching Subject Areas

  • Undergraduate: Introductory Sociology; Social Theory; Drug Problems, Policies and Approaches.
  • Postgraduate: Criminological Theory; Policing, Crime Prevention and Security Governance.

Research Interests

Security and Inclusive Societies

  • Technology & Ethics: Populism & Democracy
  • Crime Prevention and Local Crime Control
  • Urban Security Governance
  • Rural Crime & Security
  • Comparative Criminology
  • Bourdieu, Field Analysis and Multiple Correspondence Analysis

Current / Recent Research Projects

  1. PI for Project BORDEX - The Post-Brexit Security Field on the Island of Ireland: The Role of Civil Society in Everyday Security, funded by North South Research Programme, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science / Higher Education Authority, 2022-2024 (ongoing).
  2. ‘The Constitution of the Security Field – Ireland’, 2015-2021 – TU Dublin Research Seed Award
  3. ‘Crime, Risk and Resilience in the Countryside: Governing Rural Security’ with Artur Pytlarz, Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Scholarship 2016-2022.
  4. Drug Intimidation Initiative, collaboration with Ana Liffey Drugs Project 2020-2021
  5. Drug economy and youth interventions, collaboration with City Wide Drugs Crisis Campaign, 2018-2019
  6. National Expert (Ireland) GOPA / EU Commission / DG Home Crime Statistics Comparability Project 2018-2020
  7. Being and Becoming Secure: Investigating and Exploring the Security Habitus, with Jason Quinn, IRC Government of Ireland Scholar, 2019-2022

Current Research Student Supervision

  1. Artur Pytlarz - Crime, Risk and Resilience in the Countryside: Governing Rural Security, IRC Government of Ireland Scholar
  2. Andy Bray- Re-Modeling the National Children’s Detention Campus: How does the change in in the focus of offender management impact on the existing historical child-care habitus?
  3. Adeyemi Adekanle: Police police career choices of sub-Saharan Africans: Questions of culture and procedural justice.
  4. Maura Finnie: Police occupational culture and intergenerational police habitus, TU Dublin Fiosraigh scholar
  5. Jason Quinn: Being and Becoming Secure: Investigating and Exploring the Security Habitus, IRC Government of Ireland Scholar
  6. Ola Falodun: Policing and non-state security governance in West Africa: The case of Nigeria
  7. Killian Cullen: Investigating and Exploring the Impact of Police Pluralisation on Police Culture and Police Dispositions, TU Dublin Research Scholar Award

Recent Publications

Bowden, M. & Harkness, A. (2022) (eds.) Transformations and Rural Crime: International Critical Perspectives in Rural Criminology.  Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Bowden, & Pytlarz, A. (2022). Late Modernity and the Governance of Rural Security: From Solid to Liquid, in Bowden, A. & Harkness, A. (eds.) Transformations and Rural Crime: International Critical Perspectives in Rural Criminology, pp. 66-86. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Harkness, A., Bowden, M. & Donnermeyer, J. F. (2022) The Future for Rural Criminology: Transformation and Transcendence of Borders, in Bowden, A. & Harkness, A. (eds.) Transformations and Rural Crime: International Critical Perspectives in Rural Criminology, pp. 183-202. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Bowden, M. & Pytlarz, A. (2022) Entering the Relational Space: Using Field-Analytic Methods in Researching Rural Security, in Weisheit, R., Peterson, J. & Pytlarz, A. Research Methods for Rural Criminologists, pp. 143-145. London: Routledge.

Harkness, A., Peterson, J, Bowden, M., Pedersen, C. & Donnermeyer, J.F. (2022). The Encyclopedia of Rural Crime. Bristol: Bristol University Press (in Press, December 2022).

Pytlarz, A. & Bowden, M. (2022) Crime-Talk in the Countryside, in Weisheit, R., Peterson, J. & Pytlarz, A. Research Methods for Rural Criminologists, pp. 91-102. London: Routledge.

Bowden, M. & Pytlarz, A (2020). The Development of Rational Models of Crime Prevention: A Critique of the Situationist Commonsense in Rural Contexts, in Harkness, A. (ed) Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques, pp. 30-42. London: Routledge.

Bowden, M. (2020) The Gift Relation, in List, R., Anheier, H. & and Toepler S., (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. New York: Springer

Bowden, M. (2019). The security field: Forming and expanding a Bourdieusian criminology. Criminology & Criminal Justice. 21(2), 169-186 https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895819839734

Pytlarz, A., & Bowden, M. (2019). “Crime-Talk”, Security and Fear in the Countryside: A Preliminary Study of a Rural Irish Town and its Hinterland. International Journal of Rural Criminology, 4(2): 138-172.

Bowden, M. (2019). The Drug Economy and Youth Interventions: An Exploratory Research Project on Working with Young People Involved in the Illegal Drugs Trade. Dublin: Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign.

Bowden, M. (2017). Community Safety, Social Cohesion and Embedded Autonomy: A Case from South-West Dublin. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 19(2): 1-16.

Bowden, M & Topping, J. (2016). ‘Crime Prevention and Community Safety’, in Healy, D., Hamilton, C., Daly, Y. & Butler, M. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology.  London: Routledge.

Bowden M, (2015). Evaluation of the Community Safety Initiative – Assignment of RAPID Co-ordinators. Dublin: Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative

Bowden, M. (2014). Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence: Governing the Urban Periphery. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Professional Activities & Engagement

  • Editor International Book Series, Research in Rural Crime, Bristol University Press / Policy Press with Alistair Harkness, Federation University, Victoria, Australia
  • Member (incoming) Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences Committee, 2022-
  • Head of Research, Faculty of Arts & Humanities (formerly College of Arts & Tourism), Technological University Dublin, 2018-2022.
  • Member of European Culture & Technology Lab ECt+, European University of Technology, 2020-
  • Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England, New South Wales, Australia 2021-
  • Research Associate, Centre for Rural Criminology, the University of New England, New South Wales, Australia 2020-
  • Hon. Treasurer and Director of the Sociological Association of Ireland 2012-2017
  • Vice-President of the Sociological Association of Ireland, 2017-2018
  • Peer Reviewer for a range of national and international journals including Theoretical Criminology, Sociological Forum, Irish Journal of Sociology, Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, Administration, International Criminology.
  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Rural Criminology 2021-
  • Independent Chair South West Clondalkin Community Safety Forum, 2017-2021
  • Board member, St Teresa’s Gardens Regeneration Board, 2019-
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