Dr Helen Berents from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently published an article in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. The article “Hashtagging girlhood: #IAmMalala, #BringBackOurGirls and gendering representations of global politics” won the 2015 Enloe Award, which is awarded annually to an emergent scholar in recognition…
Reminder: Southern Criminology Seminar this Friday
The Crime and Justice Research Centre will be hosting an upcoming seminar on ‘Southern Criminology’, with speakers Professor Kerry Carrington, Professor Russell Hogg, Dr Helen Berents and Professor John Scott.
Young people working for peace
Dr. Helen Berents, lecturer in the School of Justice, recently published Not just victims or threats: Young people win recognition as workers for peace in The Conversation with her colleague Lesley Pruitt from RMIT. The article discusses the UN Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2250 on “youth, peace…
QUT Academics Presenting at the 2015 APSA Conference
Dr Erin O’Brien and Dr Helen Berents from QUT’s School of Justice have been in Canberra this week presenting their research at the Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference.
Recently Published: Children, violence, and social exclusion: negotiation of everyday insecurity in a Colombian barrio
photo: Helen Berents Dr Helen Berents recently published the article Children, violence, and social exclusion: negotiation of everyday insecurity in a Colombian barrio in Critical Studies on Security. Discourses on in/security are often concerned with structures and meta-narratives of the state and other institutions; however, such attention misses…