Dr Michael Chataway

Biography

Dr Michael Chataway is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Queensland University of Technology. Dr Chataway has significant expertise in quantitative research and app based methods of research.  His current research focuses on better understanding occupational violence incidents in healthcare, and in particular, fear of occupational violence among nurses and midwives.  Michael is well known for his innovative contributions to the fear of crime scholarship.  His innovative research using mobile apps to collect real time information about fear of crime and perceptions of disorder has given rise to new social-psychological models of fear of crime.  This model has improved our overall understanding of the social psychological processes involved in risk perceptions, perceptions of threat and dangerousness.  In addition to this mobile app research, Michael has also began a program of research exploring the efficacy of virtual reality as a tool to better understand bystander intervention in incidents of sexual harassment with researchers at the University of Manchester and University of Sunshine Coast. Dr Chataway's research has been published in several national and international journals including the Journal of Environmental Psychology, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology , the Journal of Applied Geography,  City & Community and Victims & Offenders.  He has also recently published a book titled Space, Time, and Crime, which explores various developments in the study of spatio-temporal features of crime and offending. The latest edition, incorporates new insights from studies using technologies to map fear of crime, victimisation, and offending. Michael is recognised as an innovative thinker and is passionate about making our communities safer.