(Image from L to R – Dr Dean Biron, Emma Jones, Prof John Scott) This summer, QUT School of Justice unit Crime in Popular Culture (JSB287) featured the second Crime in Popular Culture Writing Prize. The prize was awarded for the best submissions received for the first assessment…
Nomination: 2023 Meisel-Laponce Award – International Political Science Review
QUT Centre for Justice members Erin O’Brien (left) and Justine Coneybeer (right), together with Martijn Boersma and Alice Payne article titled, ‘Political Investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors’ was shortlisted as one of six articles considered for the Meisel-Laponce…
Event: The Future of Housing and Homelessness in Queensland
QUT Centre for Justice will co-host this event with QUT Centre for Decent Work and Industry and the TJ Ryan Foundation. Join us for a panel discussion about the future of housing and homelessness in Queensland. Our experts will be discussing the policy environment, current challenges and recommendations…
QUT Centre for Justice in the Media – Flood, Grant-Smith, Cross and Lauchs
QUT Centre for Justice has appeared in a number of media sources this week. Michael Flood “The Battle for our Boys”, Courier Mail, 11 March 2023 “Andrew Tate: Monster influencer flooding our schools with ‘toxic’ ideology,” Gold Coast Bulletin, 10 March 2023 Professor Michael Flood has appeared across…
Research and Impact: Professor Michael Flood
QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Michael Flood, has appeared in the media this past week on a number of different topics. Professor Flood provides commentary on an article authored by Jan Caro titled, “We are among the best-educated in the world. Why are workplaces failing us? “…
QUT Submission to the Queensland Parliament Economics and Governance Committee Strengthening Community Safety Bill 2023
Dr Shane Warren and Ms Alyssa Venning A number of academics from QUT School of Social Work and Public Health, many of who are members of QUT Centre for Justice, supported a submission to the Queensland Parliament Economics and Governance Committee Strengthening Community…
New Special Issue: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
A special issue of International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy has been published. Victoria Nagy (University of Tasmania) and Thomas Kehoe (The University of Melbourne) have curated a set of articles that bring history and criminology together and remind scholars of “how much there is for us…
Strategies for Improving Labour Conditions Within the Australian Cotton Value Chain
QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Erin O’Brien launched a research report for a project on preventing labour exploitation in the cotton value chain, commissioned by the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC). The project was led by Professor Alice Payne (RMIT, Adjunct QUT Centre for Justice)…
Publication: “Individual Responsibility and Disconnection: Practitioner Experiences of the First Wave COVID19 Lockdown”
QUT Centre for Justice member Michelle Newcomb, with Alyssa Venning from QUT Public Health and Social Work, has recently published an article in Q1 journal, Australian Social Work titled, “Individual Responsibility and Disconnection: Practitioner Experiences of the First Wave COVID19 Lockdown.” ABSTRACT The first wave of the COVID-19…
Research Profile: Dr Gina Masterton
QUT Centre for Justice and Carumba Institute Indigenous Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Gina Masterton, will speak at an International Women’s Day event for Moreton Bay Regional Council. Gina will join a panel of local women as they discuss the ways they choose to challenge inequality. Gina’s research…