Rhiannon Bandiera

Dr Rhiannon Bandiera (she/her) is a Lecturer in Criminology and Co-Director of the Research Centre in International Justice at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University. 

Rhiannon is a specialist in state-corporate crime/social harm, regulation, and their transnational dimensions. She publishes on a variety of topics, most recently on state-corporate crime/harm within supply chains, from modern slavery to harmful, rarely-criminalised forms of labour exploitation, such as the under- and non-payment of wages (or wage theft). She also publishes on the harms of prescription and non-prescription medicines in areas such as: the regulation of medicine quality, safety, and efficacy; the regulation of direct-to-consumer advertising and marketing to healthcare professionals; and, medicine and medical device counterfeiting. Her upcoming book with Routledge, Neoliberalism, State-Corporate Power and Regulatory Failure, examines the harms of prescription and non-prescription medicines regulation in Australia and how these stem from neoliberal capitalism and its reinforcement of state and corporate power.

Rhiannon studied psychology and criminal justice in a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology) and Bachelor of Behavioural Science Honours (Criminal Justice), graduating in the latter with first class. She has a PhD in criminology from Flinders University, South Australia and Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (Learning and Teaching) from Deakin University, Victoria. In 2024, she was a Visiting Scholar of the Centre for Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales. Prior to joining Maynooth's School of Law and Criminology in 2020, she taught at Flinders for close to a decade in criminology, criminal justice, and legal studies. She has also held teaching positions at the University of South Australia and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.