QUT Centre for Justice is building a strong body of research in relation to Housing and Homelessness. As part of a QUT Centre for Justice-funded research project, Dr Shane Warren and Adam Barnes of QUT School of Public Health and Social Work hosted two focus groups with specialist…
Queensland Future Conversations: Housing Challenges and Homelessness
Image L to R: Chris Whiting (Member for Bancroft), Professor Melissa Bull (QUT Centre for Justice), Ali King (Member for Pumicestone), Rebekah Russell-Bennett (Co-director, QUT Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology), and Joe Kelly (Member for Greenslopes). During 2022 QUT and UQ have been hosting Queensland Future…
QUT C4J member success – ARC Discovery Project
QUT Centre for Justice is pleased to announce the success of three of its members as part of an ARC Discovery Project. Project Team (Centre members in bold): Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik; Dr Hope Johnson; Associate Professor James Blinco; Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari; Associate Professor Mark Lauchs; Dr Anja Goldmann…
Event: Professor Ross Garnaut: “The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia’s Zero Carbon Future”
World Wide Fund for Nature Australia and QUT Centre for Justice warmly invite you to the Brisbane book launch of Professor Ross Garnaut’s new edited book, “The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia’s Zero Carbon Future.” In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia – rich in…
Research impact: Fostering healthy masculinities among men and boys
Professor Michael Flood has given a series of keynote presentations and workshops on promoting non-violent, gender-equitable masculinities among men and boys in a recent six-day trip to Sweden and the UK. Professor Flood gave an invited keynote address on “Masculinity and violence against women” to a two-day conference…
Book Launch: “The Wizards of Oz”
On Tuesday 25 October QUT Vice-Chancellor, Professor Margaret Sheil hosted a book launch for QUT School of Justice Adjunct Professor The Honourable Dr Brett Mason for his new book, “Wizards of Oz”. “Wizards of Oz” tells the story of childhood friends physicist Mark Oliphant and medical researcher Howard…
Event: National Scams Awareness Week 2022
Please join Associate Professor Cassandra Cross (School of Justice) and Professor Anup Basu (QUT School of Business) for an event to mark National Scams Awareness Week 2022 to launch findings of a research project examining financial literacy and fraud awareness in those who have self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF).…
Publication: It’s time to move beyond a Western understanding of development
QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Danielle Watson, with Dr Julie Berg of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) at University of Glasgow, have published a policy piece in Asia and the Pacific Policy Society. The authors discuss that measurements of the UN’s Sustainable…
This week (October 24-30) is International Open Access Week #OpenForClimateJustice
So what is open access? Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. Through licensing via an open license (usually a Creative Commons License), freely available outputs can also be…
Award: Best peer-reviewed publication
QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Cassandra Cross was awarded “Best peer-reviewed publication” from the American Society of Criminology Division of Cybercrime for the following publication: Cross, C. and Lee, M. (2021) Exploring fear of crime for those targeted by romance fraud. Victims and Offenders, 17(5): 735-755.…