Issue No. 8 of the QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Paper Series has been released, titled, “A great awakening with many dangers: What has the #MeToo movement achieved?” The proliferation of the global #MeToo movement has been a watershed moment, capturing the global imagination and breaking a longstanding…
Call for Papers – Law, Technology and Humans
Papers for consideration in volume 3(1) are invited. Volume 3(1) will be published in May 2021. Preference will be given to research and scholarship that: Challenges and critically examines the promises and perils of emergent technologies; Engages with the futures (and pasts) of law, technology and humans; Involves…
Law Faculty announces VRES projects for Summer 2020-2021
Each year the Law Faculty provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to work on cutting edge research with academic experts in the School of Law and School of Justice. The Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES) is a scheme held during the summer vacation period. Students who participate will…
Podcast: Justice Focus – Professor Kerry Carrington
Professor Kerry Carrington was interviewed as part of Justice Focus podcast. Listen here. Justice Focus is a criminology podcast that focuses on the latest exciting projects happening in criminal justice all over the world. It brings together practitioners, front line staff, NGO workers, academics – basically all those people…
Event: Disability Action Week – Design for Change
As part of Queensland Disability Action Week from 13-18 September, QUT Design Lab’s Marissa Lindquist is moderating a conversation about designing for change. QUT C4J member, and Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries, Dr Janice Rieger, is involved in his conversation. Details below – Details: Location: https://qut.zoom.us/j/96409099439 Start Date:…
Podcast: Disability Action Week: Universal and Building Design
Image: Paralympian Karni Liddell (L) and Dr Janice Rieger Queensland Disability Action Week runs from 13-19 September and this year’s theme is “Access-ability – making things better for everyone” As part of the week Dr Janice Rieger, member of QUT C4J and Senior Lecturer, Creative Industries discusses Universal…
EVENT: Free Webinar: Digital Justice – Emerging Technologies, Methods and Research
Friday 11 September 2020 9.30am – 2.30pm This online event aims to bring together HDR students and early, mid, senior career researchers, and industry professionals from around Australia to talk about the latest cutting-edge research and policy developments in the space of Digital Justice: Technologies, Methods, and Research.…
Crime rates and justice innovations in the Torres Strait Islands
QUT Centre for Justice has recently published Issue 5 in the QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Paper Series. QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Papers provide short, accessible accounts of topics and issues related to justice. The paper titled, “Crime rates and justice innovations in the Torres Strait Islands”…
IJCJSD Volume 9 issue 3 2020 Double Issue
A new issue of International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is now available. This third issue for 2020 is a double issue and includes diverse articles from scholars in the UK, China, Colombia, Australia, France and Spain. In two parts, the first part is a special issue:…
QUT C4J Briefing Paper: What Australia can learn from women’s police stations to prevent gender violence
An Australian Research Council (ARC) funded research team from QUT Centre for Justice, led by Professor Kerry Carrington conducted three months of field research in Argentina, interviewing 100 employees from 10 women’s police stations. Women’s police stations are a unique invention that emerged in Latin America in the…