QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Christine Morley, continues to gain impact in research around unpaid work placements – or ‘placement poverty’. As part of a research team, Professor Morley has been researching the current financial burden on students required to complete long, and mostly unpaid, social work…
QUT Centre for Justice PhD candidate, Justine Coneybeer, was awarded a Doctoral Student Bursary Award to attend Crossing Boundaries: the 2023 Business and Modern Slavery Research Conference is to be held in Bath, UK on 20-21 September 2023. This conference is likely to be the largest gathering of…
QUT Centre for Justice Director, Professor Melissa Bull recently attended the European Society of Criminology “EuroCrim” Conference in Florence, Italy where she presented a keynote and panel participation as part of the pre-ESC 2023 on “Research Methodologies in Policing Studies.” as well as presenting as part of a…
QUT Law and Creative Industries alumni, and QUT Centre for Justice Adjunct Lecturer, Dr Fiona Crawford has written two articles in The Conversation around The Matilda’s and the 2023 Women’s World Cup. During the World Cup Dr Crawford published an article titled, “From handing out their own flyers,…
A new issue of International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy has been published. This general issue publishes a diverse mix of criminology research from Spain, China, the UK, Ireland, the US, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago and Australia. Included in the issue, Xue Yang reviews the evolution of…
QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Mark Lauchs has provided media commentary in a number of publications discussing the changing face of bikies in Queensland, and their impact on organised crime. “We’ve seen just recently the former head of the Commanchero’s wearing designer dressing gowns in the…
QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Cassandra Cross, has provided extensive media commentary on the current scams associated with buying and selling items on online marketplaces. Cassandra’s research was recently published in The Conversation in an article titled, “‘My brother will pick it up, what’s your PayID?’ -…
QUT Centre for Justice is proud to support the Brisbane Pride Festival and QUT Pride Month. Queer Research Group In particular, QUT Centre for Justic e is proud to support its Queer Research Group which is a multi-disciplinary team, drawn from all over the university, researching a range…
QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Jodi Death has provided commentary in an article titled, “Hundreds of Qld child abuse victims. More than $100 million in payments” in Brisbane Times, August 2023. This article discusses that the amount of money the Queensland government pays out to settle…
Congratulations to QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Danielle Watson, who has been awarded a “Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)” by the Australian Research Council. Beyond Imported Understandings of Domestic Violence in the Pacific High occurrences of domestic violence across the Pacific region threatens the growth…
