Matt Bowden

Short Resume

Matt Bowden leads the Culture & Society Research Hub at Technological University Dublin, Ireland, and is a senior lecturer in sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Law & Education. His research interests include rural crime, the study of security fields along with security in the context of the Anthropocene epoch. He is co-founder of the Bristol University Press book series on Research in Rural Crime and a member of the international editorial board of the International Journal of Rural Criminology. He has also been a key contributor to the growing interest in applying the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu in security studies and in criminology more generally.