JENNIFER TURPIN: I’m Jennifer Turpin, and I’m studying the Bachelors degree in Justice, and I’m currently in my second year. 

Why QUT?

I chose QUT because I knew that it was very technologically based, and I knew that I was going to be working a bit so I needed a course that would be flexible for me.

QUT offers the podcasts which made it easier for me because I could work and if I don’t go to uni I can catch up on that lecture a couple of days later, and also a lot of my friends came here and they told me a lot of good things about it as well.

We’ve had a guest lecturer from the CMC, had Professor Jeff Dean who’s one of the professors here at QUT, and he’s actually one of the leading criminal profilers in Queensland, and he brought real crime scene photos, he talked us through an actual crime scene, and as a class we sort of had to put together who we thought the perpetrator would have been, so I thought that that was really cool.

So they do bring real crime circumstances into the lecture rooms.

The Illuminate Session is run for students who are either sick or they have work commitments so they can’t physically attend the lectures.

So basically what happens is the lecture still runs as per usual and you’ll log on at home and it’s sort of like a real session on the computer, they’ve set it up like MSN Messenger, so you could ask the lecturer questions and they’ll give you feedback, so it’s really helpful for students who can’t make it into uni.

PROFESSOR KERRY CARRINGTON: I’m Professor Kerry Carrington, I’m the head of the School of Justice in the Faculty of Law at QUT.

The Bachelor of Justice has two majors one in Criminology, one in Policing, but you can also take a major in Law as well as, or instead of a major in Psychology.

It’s multi-disciplinary, you can also do a minor, which is a group of four units, in Indigenous Studies, and it’s a first for Queensland; and you can also do a minor in Forensic Investigation with any of those majors.

So you can mix and match them up depending on your choice of careers and what you want to do with your life.

If you do a Bachelor of Justice there’s a wide variety of graduate employment opportunities available to you, you can go off into Youth Justice, you can go off into Law Enforcement, you can go off into corrections, probation, parole; but also within policy in Government about half our graduates end up in either crime policy, or social policy, or crime prevention policy in aspects of Government.

Some of our graduates end up with careers in the non-government sector and we’re thinking here in areas like Indigenous Justice bringing alternative models of justice to communities such as in alternatives to the formal system, such as community justice, what we call youth conferencing, so there’s a very wide variety of professions and careers that our graduates can end up in.

LEONARD SULLIVAN: Hi my name is Leonard Fitzgerald Sullivan, and I’m studying a Bachelor of Justice at QUT.

A Bachelor of Justice leads to jobs, pretty much in policing field, you can work in intelligence, you can work for the government, military, those types of things like that.

But there’s so many fields in the Bachelor of Justice, it’s not just one area, so it could be anything, it could be Psychology, it could be Health or whatever, it’s just a lot of things that you can use with a Bachelor of Justice.

Analyst Notebook is pretty much something that, pretty much all intelligence, in any field, that’s policing, AFP, military, they use Analyst Notebook to cipher through clues, to have profiles on different peoples or different groups to try to find out, you know, what their activities are.

I just went through that course and it’s pretty much what they do, so you’re getting real world experience.

Doing those two courses along with the other ones I’ve done this semester have actually really made me say oh okay, well look I know I can do this in the real world because everybody else is doing the same thing, and I’ve had someone grade my papers; you never know, my papers might have been good enough, or ‘Oh I remember you’ when you come for a job interview, so you never know, especially when you’ve got people who are in the field actually grading your work.