Conor O'Reilly
Conor O'Reilly, who has held positions at Durham University, the University of Porto, and as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology of the University of Oxford, is an Associate Professor in Transnational Crime and Security at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law, University of Leeds. O'Reilly, who remains an Affiliate Professor of the School of Criminology, University of Porto, and who was a Visiting Scholar at John Jay College for Criminal Justice in New York, had conducted his doctoral research at Queen's University, Belfast, focussing on the transnational security consultancy industry. Research Interests
His interest in the transnational dynamics of crime, policing and security led to a focus on intersecting trends towards commodification of security and transnationalisation of policing, where he explores how policing models and security solutions are increasingly reconstituted as brands and actively promoted on the global stage.
His research projects have included collaborative work on the circulation of police officers in Portugal, Lusophone Africa and Brazil (FCT, Portugal), as well as research into processes of state-corporate symbiosis in the transnational policing sphere (ESRC).
He is also part of an international and interdisciplinary team to research ‘Policing and Urban Imaginaries: New Security Formats in Southern Cities’ (FAPESP/FCT).