QUT’s School of Justice welcomes Dr. Nyasha Mutongwizo, who commenced as a postdoctoral research fellow on 1 May 2025. Nyasha will be working on a research project titled: On the Radar?: Real, Perceived and Obscure Human Security and Development Threats in the Pacific. The project will specifically look at how security threats are perceived by Pacific Islanders, drawing on insights from law enforcement professionals enrolled in the SINU postgraduate diploma in Security Studies. The research will address three key questions:
1) what are the most pressing human security threats in the Pacific?
2) how do people in the Pacific perceive, articulate and rank less tangible, non-traditional threats? and
3) how does the discourse and articulation to these threats vary between institutions and everyday people?
By foregrounding local perspectives and elevating often-overlooked dimensions of insecurity, the project aims to inform and support the development of security policy and practice that is people-centred, contextually grounded and responsive to the realities of life in the Pacific.
This appointment stems from a DT Global Asia Pacific Grant for a project titled “Developing Security Studies Capacity at the Solomon Islands National University”, awarded to Associate Professor Danielle Watson and Dr Sarah Warner from QUT Centre for Justice.
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