Rhiannon Bandiera

Dr Rhiannon Bandiera is a Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University.

Rhiannon specialises in state-corporate, state, and transnational crime and (social) harm and regulation. She publishes on a wide variety of topics, most recently, crime and harm within corporate supply chains, from modern slavery to harmful, non-criminalised forms of labour exploitation such as wage theft. She also publishes in the area of pharmaceutical (prescription and non-prescription) crime and harm, including: prescription and non-prescription medicine quality, safety, and efficacy; false and misleading direct-to-consumer advertising and marketing to healthcare  professionals; and, medicine and medical device counterfeiting.

Prior to joining the School of Law and Criminology in 2020, she taught criminology, criminal justice, and legal studies for close to a decade at Flinders University, South Australia. She has also held teaching positions at the University of South Australia and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Rhiannon was born and raised on Kaurna land. She was the first woman in her family to attend university and first in her family to obtain a postgraduate qualification. Rhiannon studied psychology and criminal justice in a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology), and finished top in her class in a Bachelor of Behavioural Science Honours (Criminal Justice), graduating with first class. She holds a PhD in criminology from Flinders University and Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (Learning and Teaching) from Deakin University, Victoria. Her work is critical and interdisciplinary in nature. She is passionate about teaching (having come from a long line of teachers).