Dr Rob Robertson
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
BackgroundRob is a criminologist and behavioural scientist with a background in prisoner welfare. He worked as a welfare officer at Queensland’s ‘Boggo Road’ jail in the 1980s, and in the community welfare sector with the Prisoner and Family Support Association and the Catholic Prison Ministry.
Career history
1992 - 1994: lectured in Criminology at QUT in the School of Human Services
1999 - Present: sessional lecturer in Criminology at QUT’s School of Justice (Faculty of Law).
Rob completed a Master of Justice (Research) at QUT in 2004, researching childhood violence in the lives of serial murderers. He is currently nearing completion of a PhD on the topic of criminal desistance, using a postmodern, poststructuralist analysis of individual paths of criminal desistance.
Research interests
- Criminal desistance
- Constructive-interpretivist methodology
- Restorative justice
- Victim-offender integrative therapy (VOIT)
- Zemiology (social harm)
- Life course criminality.
Personal details
Discipline
Law
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Justice (Research) (Queensland University of Technology)
- PGDipSocPlanning (University of Queensland)
- BA (Darling Downs Inst. of Adv. Ed.)
Teaching
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
To find publications by Rob, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.