QUT Centre for Justice congratulates the following members who received promotions as part of the 2024 promotion round to Professor and Associate Professor. These promotions recognise the significant contributions of our C4J colleagues to academic leadership at QUT. QUT Centre for Justice explores the proposition that research can help…
The Conversation: First Nations people are 3 times more likely to die on the road. Here’s how to fix Australia’s transport injustice.
QUT Centre for Justice member and Indigenous Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Gina Masterton has co-authored a piece in The Conversation titled, “First Nations people are 3 times more likely to die on the road. Here’s how to fix Australia’s transport injustice.” Some of the…
New Special Issue: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
The Emergence of a Pacific Criminology Guest editors Moses Faleolo (Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka, Aotearoa New Zealand) and Miranda Forsyth (The Australian National University, Australia) have curated a set of articles from the inaugural symposium on Pacific Criminology and this special issue is the first collection…
Media, event and publication: Scams Awareness Week 2024
QUT Centre for Justice hosted a successful event as part of Scams Awareness Week 2024 titled, “Stop a Scam, Share a Story”. As we wrap up Scams Awareness Week we would like to thank those who contributed to this conversation. Chaired by Professor Cassandra Cross from the…
Event: Queer Justice
This event is a collaboration between the Queer Research Group (QUT Centre for Justice) and the newly formed Gender and Sexuality group (Digital Media Research Centre), hear from leading and emerging scholar-activists, higher-degree research students and early career researchers. Speaking on topics from pinkwashing to…
Media: “Booming romance fraud genre giving victims a platform”
Main image: Professor Cassandra Cross and Associate Professor Phoebe Hart Documentaries have surged in popularity worldwide since COVID-19 and a QUT researcher says true crime and romance fraud are leading the charge, giving victims a voice and warning…
The Conversation: Disaster season looms, but the senate inquiry has failed to empower communities
QUT Centre for Justice member, and PhD student, Monica Taylor has recently written for The Conversation on the topic, “Disaster season looms, but the senate inquiry has failed to empower communities.” “This week, a Senate committee examining Australia’s…
Media and Impact: QUT Centre for Justice Disaster Justice Briefing Paper Series
A series of briefing papers on natural disaster response and recovery in Queensland has been released by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from QUT’s Centre for Justice. The briefing papers cover some vital but little-studied areas such as the problems Brisbane’s increasing high-rise populations face when their utilities and…
Event: Unpacking Indigenous Identities: Pacific Island Perspectives
Please join us for a panel discussion on the topic, Unpacking Indigenous Identities: Pacific Islanders Perspectives. Thursday 29 August 2024 KG-E403 Kelvin Grove Campus 11.30am – 1.00pm A light lunch will be served after the panel discussion The panel will offer a nuanced exploration of the diverse and…
Media – “Experts and advocates say Crisafulli’s ‘Adult Crime, Adult Time’ Unproductive – Associate Professor Angela Higginson
QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Angela Higginson was interviewed by 4ZZZ radio to comment on the LNP’s latest youth justice proposal to apply adult sentencing to young people convicted of serious crime. Following the announcement by Opposition leader David Crisafulli that the LNP would seek to…