QUT Centre for Justice is proud to support the Brisbane Pride Festival and QUT Pride Month.  Queer Research Group In particular, QUT Centre for Justic e is proud to support its Queer Research Group which is a multi-disciplinary team, drawn from all over the university, researching a range…

QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Jodi Death has provided commentary in an article titled, “Hundreds of Qld child abuse victims. More than $100 million in payments” in Brisbane Times, August 2023.  This article discusses that the amount of money the Queensland government pays out to settle…

Congratulations to QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Danielle Watson, who has been  awarded a “Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)” by the Australian Research Council. Beyond Imported Understandings of Domestic Violence in the Pacific High occurrences of domestic violence across the Pacific region threatens the growth…

QUT Centre for Justice member, A/Prof Erin O’Brien has had a paper published in Business and Politics titled,  ‘Banning indirect boycotts: Contentious interactions and the role of the state in marketplace activism’ by Erin O’Brien, Hope Johnson, and Yu-An Murray. This article analyses two key instances of the…

“As a former childcare worker stands accused of more than 1,600 charges, experts say changing technology habits are making offenders harder to detect.”  The Guardian QUT Centre for Justice member, Dr Jodi Death, has provided commentary in a recent article published in The Guardian about serial child abusers,…

QUT Centre for Justice member, A/Prof Matthew Ball has been awarded American Society of Criminology Division of Queer Criminology’s ‘Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award’ for a paper published with colleagues in 2022 titled, “Building an Intersectional and Trans-Inclusive Criminology: Responding to the Emergence of “Gender Critical” Perspectives in Feminist…

“Pedestrians are five times more likely to die on the roads in the NT than in other states and territories, and 87% of pedestrians killed in the NT since 2012 were Indigenous.” QUT Centre for Justice member Professor Kieran Tranter, provided media commentary around these statistics last week.  Professor Tranter’s research has focused on how to reduce the NT’s high rate of Indigenous pedestrian deaths. “Issues of speed, intoxication and not stopping are particularly prevalent, and clearly we need…

QUT Centre for Justice member, Dr Katie Woolaston (pictured) provided media commentary following the recent dingo attack on K’gari (Fraser Island). Dr Woolaston, who studied the K’gari dingo problem for her PhD on human-wildlife conflict, said current dingo management actions were not working and dangerous attacks were increasing.…

(Image:  A/Prof Laurianne Sitbon (QUT Centre for Robotics and QUT Centre for Justice), Professor Melissa Bull (QUT Centre for Justice) and A/Prof Janice Rieger (QUT Centre for Robotics and QUT Centre for Justice) QUT Centre for Justice and QUT Centre for Robotics recently hosted a Disability…