Gudrun Vande Walle is postdoctoral researcher at the University College Ghent – Department Business and Public Administration where she is a member of the Governing and Policing Security research unit. She has a master degree in Law (KULeuven), in Criminology (UGent) and a doctoral degree in Criminology (UGent). Her PhD project (2004) concerned “conflict resolution between private companies and consumer victims of corporate practices in the pharmaceutical industry”. Nowadays Gudrun is doing research in the field of corruption and anti-corruption policy in public and private organisations. Research and teaching experience cover: Governance and Ethics, Governance of Security, Sociology of Law, Organisational criminology, Financial-Economic Crime.

 

In short, fields of interest are:

• Organisational crime: phenomenon, compliance and conflict resolution
• Sociology of Law
• City and security     
• Ethics and corruption      

 Research networks:

• Gofs – Associated Research Team Governance of Security
• GERN – Groupe Européen de Recherches sur les Normativités.
• VVC – Vlaamse Vereniging voor Criminology
• Member of the European Society of Criminology - co-chair of EUROC (European Research unit on Organisational