Brendan Walker-Munro
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan Walker-Munro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker-Munro |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER-MUNRO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Cross University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5484-1145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“A Lie Cannot Live”
In this article, we discuss the emerging prominence of ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation’ (SLAPPs) across Europe and the United Kingdom as mechanisms for chilling academic discourse, particularly around topics considered unpalatable to foreign governments. We argue that the increased prominence of SLAPPs foreshadows a new form of abuse of legal process against universities that attempt to protect their researchers: vexatious or mal…
Typology of transparency as best practice
Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) are commonly used in Australia in an under-regulated environment. Only two regulatory mechanisms currently direct FRT use – industry self-regulation and Australia’s privacy laws. Currently, best practices for FRT development and adoption are a key governance mechanism, including the recent guide to FRT privacy risks evaluation published by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in 2024. Transp…
Evaluating research security as enterprise risk management
1. Universities and higher education institutions (HEIs) are no strangers to risk. As HEIs have moved away from pure public institutions and more towards commercialised or industrialised business m
Universities as the Next Counterintelligence Battleground in Geopolitical Contests
Globally, universities are increasingly becoming the target of foreign national security actors, engaging in espionage, sabotage, foreign interference and intellectual property theft. Despite that, there has been no examination of the utilisation of counterintelligence approaches by universities to the threats they face from the subordination or manipulation of international collaboration and research partnerships. Tangentially, the concept of re…
Research security by roundtable
An increasingly fractured geopolitical environment is driving substantial change in the conduct of international academic research. In the European Union (EU) Member States have enacted numerous measures designed to limit or eliminate risks of espionage, foreign interference and illicit technological theft. However, these same measures are often rejected or resisted by higher education institutions, claiming they unnecessarily complicate research…
Sensitive research & anti-money laundering
Nation-states are increasingly turning to the use of espionage and foreign interference to further their programmes of technology acquisition. This threat is especially prevalent where sensitive, technological, and innovative research is taking place—namely our universities and higher education institutions. To prevent the diffusion of technological knowledge against the national interest, Western nations are erecting bulwarks against illicit tec…
(Professor) Hadrian’s Wall
Research security is the action of protecting sensitive, classified or commercially valuable knowledge and technologies from espionage, theft, interference and illicit transfers. Yet academic explorations of research security are still at their most formative stages. This is especially the case in Australia and its universities, which has been accused in recent years of falling behind research security efforts compared to other Western nations su…
National security, foreign investment & research security
Hyper-Collection
Corporations and governments have been in the business of collecting personal information for decades. However, recent trends demonstrate a prevalence for “hyper-collection”—the collection, analysis, and use of more information than is needed for truly legitimate commercial or legal purposes and in covert or passive ways. This prevalence by corporate actors to hyper-collect personal information of citizens as consumers is merely the latest iterat…
Domestic violence as terrorism
Scholars have recently begun to explore the similarities between domestic violence and domestic terrorism. Both forms of offending rely on the use and threat of violence in conjunction with controlling behaviours to instil fear in their victims, and both forms of offending are predominantly committed by men. Yet despite these similarities, terrorism offences are treated as grave offences against the security of the nation-State, whilst domestic v…
The Richardson Review
This article examines Australia’s recent review of its federal national security and intelligence agencies. The article argues that Australia’s current legislative structure for its intelligence agencies unacceptably blurs the lines between intelligence and law enforcement in a number of areas. In seeking to make several recommendations for law reform, this article engages with the ‘purpose’ of that legislation, and builds on the Richardson Revie…
An Examination of Cyber-Systemic Regulation in Criminology Through the Lens of “Flows
Silence in the Dock
The chequered history of the case of Gerard Baden-Clay has been played out in the media of Queensland, Australia and the world for the last five years. The case culminated most recently with the High Court overturning an earlier decision of the Court of Appeal, and replacing Baden-Clay's manslaughter conviction for one of murder. Advocates and civil libertarians have been quick to state that the case was bad law, and eroded our fundamental right …
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Silence in the Dock
The chequered history of the case of Gerard Baden-Clay has been played out in the media of Queensland, Australia and the world for the last five years. The case culminated most recently with the High Court overturning an earlier decision of the Court of Appeal, and replacing Baden-Clay's manslaughter conviction for one of murder. Advocates and civil libertarians have been quick to state that the case was bad law, and eroded our fundamental right …
Hyper-Collection
Corporations and governments have been in the business of collecting personal information for decades. However, recent trends demonstrate a prevalence for “hyper-collection”—the collection, analysis, and use of more information than is needed for truly legitimate commercial or legal purposes and in covert or passive ways. This prevalence by corporate actors to hyper-collect personal information of citizens as consumers is merely the latest iterat…
Domestic violence as terrorism
Scholars have recently begun to explore the similarities between domestic violence and domestic terrorism. Both forms of offending rely on the use and threat of violence in conjunction with controlling behaviours to instil fear in their victims, and both forms of offending are predominantly committed by men. Yet despite these similarities, terrorism offences are treated as grave offences against the security of the nation-State, whilst domestic v…
The Richardson Review
This article examines Australia’s recent review of its federal national security and intelligence agencies. The article argues that Australia’s current legislative structure for its intelligence agencies unacceptably blurs the lines between intelligence and law enforcement in a number of areas. In seeking to make several recommendations for law reform, this article engages with the ‘purpose’ of that legislation, and builds on the Richardson Revie…
An Examination of Cyber-Systemic Regulation in Criminology Through the Lens of “Flows
National security, foreign investment & research security
Sensitive research & anti-money laundering
Nation-states are increasingly turning to the use of espionage and foreign interference to further their programmes of technology acquisition. This threat is especially prevalent where sensitive, technological, and innovative research is taking place—namely our universities and higher education institutions. To prevent the diffusion of technological knowledge against the national interest, Western nations are erecting bulwarks against illicit tec…
(Professor) Hadrian’s Wall
Research security is the action of protecting sensitive, classified or commercially valuable knowledge and technologies from espionage, theft, interference and illicit transfers. Yet academic explorations of research security are still at their most formative stages. This is especially the case in Australia and its universities, which has been accused in recent years of falling behind research security efforts compared to other Western nations su…
“A Lie Cannot Live”
In this article, we discuss the emerging prominence of ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation’ (SLAPPs) across Europe and the United Kingdom as mechanisms for chilling academic discourse, particularly around topics considered unpalatable to foreign governments. We argue that the increased prominence of SLAPPs foreshadows a new form of abuse of legal process against universities that attempt to protect their researchers: vexatious or mal…
Typology of transparency as best practice
Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) are commonly used in Australia in an under-regulated environment. Only two regulatory mechanisms currently direct FRT use – industry self-regulation and Australia’s privacy laws. Currently, best practices for FRT development and adoption are a key governance mechanism, including the recent guide to FRT privacy risks evaluation published by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in 2024. Transp…
Evaluating research security as enterprise risk management
1. Universities and higher education institutions (HEIs) are no strangers to risk. As HEIs have moved away from pure public institutions and more towards commercialised or industrialised business m
Universities as the Next Counterintelligence Battleground in Geopolitical Contests
Globally, universities are increasingly becoming the target of foreign national security actors, engaging in espionage, sabotage, foreign interference and intellectual property theft. Despite that, there has been no examination of the utilisation of counterintelligence approaches by universities to the threats they face from the subordination or manipulation of international collaboration and research partnerships. Tangentially, the concept of re…
Research security by roundtable
An increasingly fractured geopolitical environment is driving substantial change in the conduct of international academic research. In the European Union (EU) Member States have enacted numerous measures designed to limit or eliminate risks of espionage, foreign interference and illicit technological theft. However, these same measures are often rejected or resisted by higher education institutions, claiming they unnecessarily complicate research…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Project commissioning (5 works) · Publishing (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Global Security and Public Health (3 works) · State (computer science (3 works)