QUT Centre for Justice PhD Scholarship

Application dates

Applications close

30 April 2024

What you'll receive

You will receive an annual stipend paid fortnightly, indexed annually to support living costs. The duration will be for 3.5 years inclusive of a 6-month extension and subject to satisfactory progress. From 1 January 2024, the annual stipend rate is $33,637 (AUD) full-time rate, tax exempt.

Domestic students receive a Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset funded by the Australian Government.

International students receive a QUT Tuition Fee Sponsorship.

Eligibility

How to apply

To apply, email qutc4j@qut.edu.au and provide the following:

• a statement about the project you are interested in undertaking (1-6) with reference to your academic and research background
• your CV
• copies of academic transcripts.

What happens next?

• This process will be competitive and applicants will be ranked on the basis of the material provided. This means you do not have to go through a lengthy application for candidature process if you are not supported for the award of the scholarship.
• If supported to apply, you will then submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) via the how to apply for a research degree webpage.

About the scholarship

QUT Centre for Justice has the following research projects available (one scholarship only on offer):

Project 1: Safety, fear of crime and victimisation risk at mass events

Dr Michael Chataway, Professor John Scott, Dr Jacques Mellberg

Mass events such as concerts and sporting gatherings provide numerous social, economic, and cultural benefits to communities. While such events bring people together for entertainment and community engagement, they also present unique challenges related to security and safety. There is currently a lack of data on the factors associated with safety perceptions at mass events from the perspective of attendees/visitors and those who work at these large gatherings. Such perceptions are important for informing and developing security policies for mass events. To address this gap in knowledge, the proposed project will seek to examine visitors, workers, and volunteers’ safety concerns, fear of crime and perceptions of victimisation risk at mass events (e.g., concerts, sporting events).

The advertised project is suitable for a student with an undergraduate degree in criminology,
psychology, tourism and/or sports management. Applications for either the MPhil or PhD courses are welcomed.

Project 2: Climate finance, green capitalism and barriers to climate justice

Applications closed.

Project 3: Co-designing multisensory technologies for access & inclusion in museums and galleries

Associate Professor Laurianne Sitbon, Associate Professor Janice Rieger

In this project, the PhD student will co-design a suite of multisensorial technologies with people of all abilities and with artists and museum curators. Through a design research methodology, the student will integrate triangulated findings from contextual interviews, reflections and observations, and workshops in order to construct theory of technology-supported socio-spatial justice to museums and galleries.

Throughout this interdisciplinary project, the student will leverage access to QUT’s makerspaces, robotics, and augmented reality technology, as well as expertise in social justice in the Centre for Justice, and contacts in museums and galleries and in the disability sector.

Project 4: Archives of the death chase in the Australian settler state

Professor Kieran Tranter, Professor Thalia Anthony

The project focuses on accounts of police chases at have lead to the deaths of First Nations peoples within the coronial archive.

In the seminal Royal Commission of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody police chases that ended with the death of First Nations peoples were excluded from the definition of a death in custody. In the decades that have followed there have been a repeated number of 'death chases' where First Nation people have died due to being chased by police or white 'settlers' in vehicles. Often this ends with a coronial inquest that presents the death chase as an 'accident.' This project engages with the coronial archive of death chases to identify both institutional and cultural causes of chasing and the framings that generally allow police and 'settlers' who chased a First Nations person to their death to be considered victims of an accident rather than perpetrators.

Project 5: Actioning the access to justice agenda in least developed countries

Associate Professor Danielle Watson, Professor John Scott

The issue of access to justice is at the forefront of global discussions about transitioning towards peaceful and just societies across the globe. Despite the significant attention given to the topic by international bodies, and the emergence of bodies of literature describing the actioning of the justice agenda in the Global North, there continues to be deficiencies in how access to justice is described and understood in non-Western contexts in the Global South. Such definitions remain largely deficient in their understandings of indigenous forms of justice, the nature of such regimes and the interface between state and non-state regimes. Not much has been done to examine local or non-state justice frameworks or describe conceptualisations of access to justice in the least developed countries across the Global South. Our project seeks to expand conceptualisations of access to justice by examining and introducing understandings of ‘access’ and ‘justice’ from the periphery. We are interested in supervising an HDR project that looks at actioning the access to justice agenda in a developing small island state.

Do you have any questions?

For further information about this scholarship or the research projects on offer contact qutc4j@qut.edu.au.