CHRISTIAN DAWSON: My name is Christian Dawson.

I graduated from a double degree in Law and Justice, majoring in criminology.

I did a dual degree because I've always had an equal passion for both areas, not only the criminal side of things, but also law in general, so when the opportunity arose to do this double degree at QUT, it gave me that opportunity to pursue my passion.

With the dual degree I focus primarily on a 50/50 per cent ratio, so I do half Justice, half Law; five subjects per semester over the course of five years.

If you do summer school, which is another option as well, you can speed up the degree, so I did my double degree in four years.

You can have the option of also mixing that ratio up as well, so you can do primarily Justice and then a little bit of Law or all Law and primarily Justice, so it's quite flexible in nature.

I went down Justice not only to give me that opportunity for a different career path if it came to the case where Law in the real world, as we know it, was different to what I expected when I started four years ago.

But, also I've always had a passion for it as indicated earlier, so for me to be able to have that opportunity of the Law in addition to something that I've always loved, which is Justice, it was just a perfect opportunity.

PROFESSOR KERRY CARRINGTON: I'm Professor Kerry Carrington.

I'm the Head of School for Justice in the faculty of Law at QUT.

If students want to enhance their career prospects, or if they're not so sure about what they want to do, they can do a double degree of Justice, they can do a double degree of Law that is the most popular one.

Or they could do a double degree with a Bachelor of Human Services, or they could do a double degree with Corporate Systems Management.

You might want to do a double degree if you're a student because it enhances your range of career prospects and your graduate outcomes, so hence, if you did a double degree, for instance, with Justice and Law, it places you in a position to either work in the field of Law or to work in a much wider range of fields where you get to apply Law within a Justice setting, so it's a very good combination, it provides an excellent grounding for students to have a wide possible range of careers across a very big sector.

DR MARK LAUCHS: I'm Dr Mark Lauchs and I'm a senior lecturer in the School of Justice.

Biggest advantage of a dual degree in Justice is if you want to practice law in the criminal law area, you're going to be far, far better at it with a dual degree than if you just did Law.

You combine that with your Law you'll be a really, really good criminal barrister, criminal solicitor, or someone else who's working with the criminal law in another aspect, and we have people here who are barristers, who have worked in criminal law, and they tell students all the time if you want to be a criminal barrister, you need all this other knowledge as well.

JESSICA ELDRIDGE: My name is Jessica Eldridge.

I'm a dual degree student in Law and Justice, and I study at QUT.

I think it's important to choose a dual degree so that you don't get a one narrowed version of what your faculty's like, and get a wider perspective of everything out there and what your career path is going to entail.

Law and Justice works together so well because they can only teach us a certain amount in one degree, and I think that there's a certain perspective of Law that needs to be balanced by Justice, you need those two sides to fully understand what the law can do to someone.

I believe graduating with a Law and Justice degree will give me an advantage in the professional field because I will be multi-purpose.

I will not only be able to give them one discipline, but I'll be able to give them several different view points on one issue and I can bring that into any Justice or Law degree that I actually go into.