Dr Shields is leading the Centre's education and training portfolio . He is also a Lecturer in the field of cultural studies and the Holocaust and is a member of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He recently worked as a consultant to the with United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and The Responsibilty to Protect( OSAPG) to produce an Atrocity Prevention education module that is being  trialed globally. 

He is an Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellow, and a Fellow of the Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilisation at Royal Holloway University of London.