Sharon Pickering (academic)

{{Short description|Vice-Chancellor of Monash University}}

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| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FASSA}}

| image = Prof Sharon Pickering.jpg

| caption = Pickering in 2025

| awards = {{Awards|award=Australian Human Rights Award for Print and Online Media|year=2012}}

{{Awards|award=Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|year=2018}}

| alma_mater = Monash University {{Small|(PhD)}}

| thesis_title = Women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland

| discipline = Criminology

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Sharon Pickering {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FASSA}} is an academic who serves as the Vice-Chancellor of Monash University since 2024.{{Cite web |last=Monash University |date=6 December 2023 |title=Monash University's new Vice-Chancellor and President |url=https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/monash-universitys-new-vice-chancellor-and-president |access-date=15 April 2024 |website=Monash University}}

Pickering graduated from the University of Melbourne with a PhD in 2000 for her thesis Women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland.{{Citation |author1=Pickering |first=Sharon |title=Women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland |publication-date=2002 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/29007232 |access-date=23 July 2024 |publisher=Beyond the Pale}}

Pickering is a scholar of criminology who earned her the Australian Human Rights Commission Award.{{Cite web |date=15 April 2024 |title=Professor Sharon Pickering, Vice-Chancellor and President |url=https://www.monash.edu/about/structure/senior-monash-staff/office-of-the-vice-chancellor-and-president/professor-sharon-pickering|website=Monash.edu}}

In 2018, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences.{{Cite web |last=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |date=26 September 2018 |title=ASSA-Elects-36-New-Fellows-in-2018 |url=https://socialsciences.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ASSA-Elects-36-New-Fellows-in-2018.pdf |access-date=15 April 2024 |website=socialsciences.org.au/}}