Roach Anleu, Sharyn

Sharyn Roach Anleu is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Dean of Research in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Adelaide and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences. She is a past president of The Australian Sociological Association and the author of Law and Social Change and four editions of Deviance, Conformity and Control. She has contributed to the Masters Program at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain. She was recently co-Chair of the Law and Society Association’s Collective Research Network: Law and Emotion. With Emerita Professor Kathy Mack she leads the Judicial Research Project at Flinders University which undertakes socio-legal research into the Australian judiciary and its courts. Their latest book is Judging and Emotion: A Socio-Legal Analysis (Routledge 2021).
In 2022, Sharyn received the TASA Award for Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology, and in 2023, the Law & Society Association’s International Prize and the Podgorecki Prize awarded by the ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Law.
Area(s) of expertise: Courts, judges, emotion, emotion work, research design