Grants and achievements
Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
The discipline of law at QUT was given a rating of 3 in the 2010 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) report, which equates to research quality of world standard. The national average for law is a rating of 2. The field of justice at QUT made a significant contribution to the law discipline submission.
Australian Research Council (Discovery Project)
Safeguarding rural Australia: addressing masculinity and violence in rural settings
- Investigators
- Prof Kerry Carrington, A/Prof Russell Hogg, A/Prof John Scott
- Duration
- 2008-2011
- Funding
- $277,000
An integrated legal regime for a sustainable carbon cycle
- Investigators
- Prof Sharon Christensen, Prof Bill Duncan, Prof Doug Fisher, Dr Pamela O'Connor (Monash), Dr Nicola Swayne
- Duration
- 2010-2012
- Funding
- $339,279
An integrated legal regime for a sustainable carbon cycle
Australian Research Council (Linkage)
Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults lacking capacity: enhancing medical decision-making through doctors' compliance with the law
- Investigators
- A/Prof Ben White, Prof Lindy Willmott, Prof Colleen Cartwright (SCU), Prof Malcolm Parker (UQ), Prof Gail Wiliams (UQ)
- Duration
- 2009-2012
- Funding
- $302,168
Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults lacking capacity
Managing family objection to autopsy: a case study of the Queensland coronial system
- Investigators
- Prof Belinda Carpenter, Dr Gordon Tait
- Duration
- 2011-2013
- Funding
- $175,909
Managing family objection to autopsy
Families and generational asset transfers: making and changing wills in contemporary Australia
- Investigators
- A/Prof Ben White, A/Prof Cheryl Tilse (UQ), Prof Jill Wilson (UQ), Prof Linda Roseman (Victoria University)
- Duration
- 2011-2014
- Funding
- $268,074
QUT is not the lead institution in this project
Futile treatment at the end of life: legal, policy, sociological and economic perspectives
- Investigators
- A/Prof Ben White, Prof Lindy Willmott, EM/Prof Cynthia Gallois (UQ), Prof Malcolm Parker (UQ), Prof Nicholas Graves, Dr Sarah Winch (UQ), A/Prof Leonie Callaway (UQ)
- Duration
- 2012-2014
- Funding
- $273,347
Canadian Institutes for Health Research Operating Grant
Articulating standards: translating the practices of standardising health technologies
- Investigators
- Dr Fiona McDonald (co-investigator)
- Duration
- 2011-2015
- Funding
- CAD$442,066
QUT is not the lead institution in this project.
Queensland Health and Medical Research Scheme
Assessment of physical injury during disaster recovery activities and the development of injury prevention strategies
- Investigators
- Dr Fiona McDonald (co-investigator)
- Duration
- 2012-2013
- Funding
- $169,000
Queensland Smart Grant
Police knowledge management PhD scholarship
- Investigators
- Prof Geoff Dean, Zoe Staines
- Duration
- 2009-2012
- Funding
- $22,500
Criminology Research Council
Sentencing of Indigenous offenders in the lawyer courts: a study of three Australian jurisdictions
- Investigators
- Dr Samantha Jeffries, Dr Christine Bond
- Duration
- 2010-2012
- Funding
- $18,284
Reporting victimisation to LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex) police liaison services: a mixed method study across two Australian states
- Investigators
- Dr Angela Dwyer, Dr Christine Bond, Dr Matthew Ball
- Duration
- 2012-2013
- Funding
- $16,332
GLTQ police liaison officers
- Investigators
- Dr Angela Dwyer, Dr Matthew Ball, Dr Christine Bond, Dr Murray Lee
- Duration
- 2011-2012
- Funding
- $15,000
ARC Centre of Excellence
Young people and sexting in Australia: ethics, representation and the law
- Investigators
- A/Prof Ben Mathews, A/Prof Kate Crawford (UNSW), Dr Kath Albury (UNSW)
- Duration
- 2011-2013
- Funding
- $14,462
Queensland Health Clinical and Statewide Services
Longitudinal study of coronial case types in greater Brisbane 2002-2010
- Investigators
- Prof Belinda Carpenter
- Duration
- 2012
- Funding
- $12,500
Queensland Department of Health
Longitudinal study of coronial case types in greater Brisbane 2002-2010
- Investigators
- Prof Belinda Carpenter
- Duration
- 2012
- Funding
- $12,500
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The risks of carbon fraud
- Investigators
- Prof Reece Walters, Dr Peter Martin
- Duration
- 2012
- Funding
- $4,000
Major research consultancies
Our staff have been called upon to undertake consultancy work in a range of fields, including:
- Review of the Environmental Protection Act, funding of $94,000 provided by the Department of Environment and Resource Management in 2011 .
- $481,000 to fund a research secondment to the Queensland Law Reform Commission to conduct various research, including into Jury Selection Practices and Procedures in Queensland (2011-2014)
- The Queensland Department of Public Works is funding work in 2011 to review the Queensland Government's Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) policy ($80,000)
- The Department of Justice - Victorian Law Reform Commission funded work to review Victoria's guardianship laws with particular respect to those with impaired decision-making ($18,000)
Staff and student achievements
International grants
Fiona McDonald is part of an international, interdisciplinary team working on the project Articulating Standards: translating the practices of standardising health technologies funded by an international competitive grant.
A project on tort law and environmental litigation involving Rowena Maguire has been awarded CDN$10,000 under the International Research Linkages program of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. The project, which is with a team of two Canadians, Professors Robert Solomon and Erika Chamberlain from the University of Western Ontario, will start in July 2012.
Fellowships
Rowena Maguire, in collaboration with the International Project Unit at QUT, was recently successful in obtaining an AusAID Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship worth close to $200,000. The funding has been provided for the development of a program that examines climate adaptation and renewable energy policy and practices. The funding allows for 10 candidates from Kenya to travel to QUT for a month-long intensive training program in November this year.
On 14 January 2011, higher degree research student Keith Loft was admitted to the Australasian Institute of Policing as a Fellow in recognition of his contribution to the Institute and policing profession. To date only nine individuals have been admitted as Fellows and fifteen as Honorary Fellows. Keith is the first Queensland Police Officer and QUT representative to be awarded this honour.
