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Legal Decision Making, Coroners and the colonial narrative in Australia
The death of George Floyd in the USA in May this year has once again highlighted how people of colour are dealt with by the criminal justice system in colonial settler societies. Australia is not exempt from this scrutiny, which has been made clear through Coroners Inquests and Royal Commissions into the deaths of Aboriginal people in prison, detention centres and police custody over the past 30 years.However, Aboriginal people are also failed by other legal systems, such as in …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- Centre for Justice
Narrative politics, policy and political activism
Dr Erin O'Brien is interested in talking to students who wish to undertake research on the topics of activism and campaigning, political decision making, or narrative politics and policy.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- Centre for Justice
Domestic Violence
Dr Bridget Harris and Dr Laura Vitis are available to supervise students who are interested in the areas of technology-facilitated coercive control, online abuser networks, post-separation abuse or rural/regional domestic violence.
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- Centre for Justice
End of life decision making
Professor Ben White is interested in talking to students who wish to undertake research in the topics of end of life decision making, euthanasia and assisted suicide, withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment, advance care planning, adult guardianship or consent to medical treatment.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Child sexual abuse in institutions
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is the latest public inquiry to consider harms to children. One result of this is the production of hours of testimony on systems that have allowed, and at times facilitated, the sexual abuse of children and adolescents. This testimony has much to offer researchers in terms of data for closer examination. Areas of interest include policy development, dark networks, secondary victimisation, victims' perspectives and experiences, and state management of harms …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- Centre for Justice
Legal education
Associate Professor Judith McNamara is interested in talking to students who wish to undertake research on the topic of legal education. She is particularly interested in areas such as Compassion in legal education, Experiential learning, and Community lawyering, pro bono and community legal education.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- School of Law
Responsibility to Protect
Senior Lecturer Andrew Garwood-Gowers is interested in talking to students who wish to undertake research on the topics of public international law, use of military force and the responsibility to protect.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- School of Law
Homicide and forensic criminology
Dr Claire Ferguson is interested in talking to students who wish to undertake research on the topics of homicide investigations, forensic criminology, offender behaviour at crime scenes, offender decision making, sexual abuse allegations or domestic homicide.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- Centre for Justice
Youth justice
Associate Professor Kelly Richards is interested in talking to students who wish to undertake research on the topics of youth justice and sexual offending.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- Centre for Justice
Sexuality, gender, criminal justice and queer criminology
Associate Professor Matthew Ball is interested in talking to students who wish to undertake research on the topics of applied research exploring the experiences of LGBTI/queer communities in criminal justice contexts (victimisation, policing, punishment) and theoretical research - seeking projects that push the conceptual boundaries of, and seek to 'queer' the discipline.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- Centre for Justice
International human rights law (environment and climate change)
Dr Bridget Lewis is interested in talking to students who wish to undertake research on the topics of environmental justice and human rights protections in energy and natural resource policies, climate change mitigation and adaption, or international human rights law (environment and climate change).
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- School of Law
Children's health law
Associate Professor Shih-Ning Then is interested in talking to students with interests in the areas of consent to treatment, special medical procedures, parental decision-making in health care, bioethics, assisted reproductive technology, pre-implementation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and embryo selection, or children as tissue donors.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law
- Lead unit
- Australian Centre for Health Law Research