QUT Centre for Justice will this month commemorate Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month. QUT Centre for Justice has many researchers working in the area of Domestic and Family Violence, particularly in the areas of: interpersonal violence and its prevention, focusing on engaging men in violence prevention,…
Media: Porn, online misogyny driving gendered violence – Professor Michael Flood
QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Michael Flood, has provided commentary in recent media around concerns over easy access to pornography and extreme online misogyny, and its harmful effects on attitudes towards relationships. NSW Women’s Safety Commissioner, Hannah Tonkin, has called on men to lead cultural change by…
Research Impact: School of Teacher Education and Leadership
QUT Centre for Justice members from School of Teacher Education and Leadership have had great research impact recently. Australian Law Reform Commission: A/Prof Lisa van Leent led a submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission with Dr Michelle Jeffries, Dr Naomi Barnes and Dr Steph Jowett (School of…
Justine Coneybeer: Submission to the Inquiry into the Ethical Clothing Extended Responsibilities Scheme 2005 (NSW)
The NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner, Dr James Cockayne and QUT Centre for Justice PhD student, Justine Coneybeer, have jointly authored a submission to the Inquiry into the Ethical Clothing Extended Responsibilities Scheme 2005 (NSW) by the NSW Parliament Modern Slavery Committee. The submission is informed by research interviews undertaken…
IJCJSD ranked Q1 in Law
The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (IJCJSD) ranked well in the release of the annual Scimago International Journal Rankings for 2023. The Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator is a measure of the scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or…
Farewell Professor Melissa Bull and Welcome Professor Rowena Maguire
Yesterday QUT Centre for Justice farewelled Professor Melissa Bull as Centre Director of QUT Centre for Justice. Melissa has led the Centre since its inception in 2020. Under Melissa’s leadership the Centre has grown to become a true interdisciplinary research centre with membership across all faculties of QUT. …
Publication: Queer(y)ing the Teaching of Writing
QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Lisa van Leent (pictured), has published a paper with QUT preservice teacher, Jordan Pickering to assist teachers to engage in queer(ing) pedagogies. Gender expansive pronouns belong in English language classrooms. This is the argument that Lisa and undergraduate co-author, Jordan, make…
Media: High pornography exposure among young Australians helps fuel violence against women
QUT Centre for Justice members, Professor Michael Flood and PhD students Maree Crabbe and Kelsey Adams have drawn on a nationally representative survey of 1,985 Australians aged 15 to 20 on their exposure to and use of pornography. They have published their findings in the Australian and New…
Media: Why social media is rife with multi-level marketing schemes
QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Deanna Grant-Smith, appeared in a number of media reports this week discussing how social media has become the new ‘front door’ for many multi-level marketing schemes with people using the platform to sell products, but also to recruit friends for financial gain.…