Professor Toby Miles-Johnson has a national and international profile as a scholar specialising in online survey research and semi-structured interview research with different institutions and groups of people in national (Australian) and international settings. He specialises in research with police organisations, national security agencies, international defence agencies, and diverse groups of people, and people categorised as vulnerable or hard to reach. He studies how institutions such as police and other national security agencies, should respond to and engage with diverse communities when experiencing victimisation or when professional engagement occurs.