Dr Matt Bowden is Academic Lead in the TU Dublin Culture & Society Research Hub (C&S+).  Matt teaches and researches in sociology and criminology, specialising in areas of criminological theory, policing and the governance of security. Dr Bowden supervises PhD research on security production and consumption, non-state security in West Africa, policing, security and the Anthropocene, and minority group experiences of everyday security. Matt Bowden is Principal Investigator for BORDEX centred on the role of civil society in the production ‘everyday security’ in post-Brexit Ireland (Shared Island, North-South Research Programme) in collaboration with Queens University Belfast (2022-2025). He is co-PI for the award winning project GroSafe focused on building societal resilience to child grooming (Research Ireland – National Challenge Fund)  (2023-2027).  Dr Bowden is internationally recognised for his contribution to rural criminology for which he received the Ralph Weisheit Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Rural Criminology in 2025.

Criminology, Security Governance, Comparative Criminology, Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu