SAGE Publishing have supported QUT since 2014 in supporting and encouraging high quality publishing by our HDR students through the SAGE HDR Publication Prize Awards. This year, QUT Centre for Justice member, Madeleine Bennett, won the Indigenous HDR student prize with her recently accepted paper titled, “Any male…

Professor Deanna Grant-Smith and Dr Melinda Laundon from the QUT Centre for Decent Work & Industry and the Centre for Justice have curated a special issue on Educator Wellbeing in Higher Education in the Student Success journal. Research has repeatedly shown that quality of instruction and positive student–faculty…

QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Matthew Ball, along with a team of co-authors, was awarded the American Society of Criminology Division on Queer Criminology Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award. This was awarded at the ASC conference recently held in Philadelphia in November 2023. The article was titled, “Building…

In early 2023 the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy editorial team established the Rosa del Olmo Prize to be awarded biennially for the  article(s) that, in the editors’ opinion and based on the recommendations of a panel of experts, most contributes to innovative thinking in the development…

Everyone should have a safe place to call home, but our current reality means entire families are living out of tents, in their cars, couch surfing, or sleeping rough. The Queensland Government is committed to tackling homelessness and developing social and affordable housing and community housing with its…

QUT Centre for Justice has released a Briefing Paper to commemorate World Toilet Day on 19 November 2023 The Briefing Paper titled, “Making leaky bodies at work and study:  Improving the provision of sanitary infrastructure in male-designated toilets at higher education institutions” – was authored by Deanna Grant-Smith…

QUT Centre for Justice member, Dr Shane Warren, has had an article published in the international journal, Feminist Media Studies. The article, authored with Mr Elliott Bryan, is titled, “The manosphere under the microscope: a critical discourse analysis of the news media reporting of Rowan Baxter’s murder of…

QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Michael Flood, appeared in a number of  media sources following the release of a proposal that family violence experts would like governments to consider after five women were killed in nine days in Australia. Under the proposal, men flagged as potential killers…

In 2022, Australians reported over $3 billion lost to fraud. This is a figure which has been rising annually for over a decade. Fraud uses deception and lying to obtain a financial reward, and offenders have embraced the evolution in technology to target victims globally. Australians are not…

This week (23-29 October) is Open Access Week – an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. This year’s theme is ‘Community over Commercialisation’. This theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize…