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Research Associates

Jennifer Balint
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology
Research Area
The legal-societal interface, crime and the state, the constitutive role of law, and the relationship between law and the reconstruction of post-conflict societies.

John Barnett
ARC Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts
School of Social and Environmental Enquiry
Research Area
The impacts of environmental change on social systems, includes research on environmental security, climate change, and water.

Jennifer Beard
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law
Institute for International Law and the Humanities
Research Area
Law and development, legal ethics, law reform, international economic development and migration

Gabrielle Berman
Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
McCaughey Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, School of Population Health
Research Area
Ethno-racial diversity and discrimination with a particular focus on institutional discrimination.

Kathleen Brasher
Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health
Research Area
Social inclusion, ageing, disability, qualitative research methods

Angela Clarke
Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, School of Population Health
Research Area
Social justice issues for Aboriginal people which includes access to health services and addressing social determinants of health

Margaret Coady
Senior Lecturer, Arts and Education
Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Research Area
Children’s rights, in particular as related to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; how the rights of children and the rights of future children are taken into account in policy on Artificial Reproductive Technology; how children are taught about their rights and about human rights; and general theoretical questions about the nature of rights.

Michael Coelli
Lecturer, Economics
Economics and Commerce
Research Area
All aspects of the economics of education, welfare and public policy, and labour markets; earnings inequality and inequality in university attendance in Australia

Kylie Cripps
Indigenous Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Centre for Health and Society, School of Population Health
Research Area
Indigenous family violence; Indigenous child abuse (all forms); Indigenous health; Indigenous women’s issues; Indigenous policy

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Andrew Dawson
Professor, Arts
School of Social and Environmental Enquiry
Research Area
The Anthropology of human mobility. In particular, deconstructing and developing alternatives to sedentarist assumption within both academic and policy discourses.

Alison Duxbury
Senior Lecturer, Law
Research Area
International law, international institutions, human rights law, and the Commonwealth and human rights. In particular, the intersection between international institutional law and human rights law.

Robyn Eckersley
Professor, Arts
Political Science, Sociology and Criminology
Research Area
Environmental policy, politics and ethics (especially the climate change negotiations); Political theory of justice and democracy; International Relations theory

Simon Evans
Associate Professor and Deputy Dean, Law
Research Area
Constitutional law and human rights (including social rights and property rights). I am particularly interested in the relationship between courts and political institutions – who is best placed to decide questions about social justice and human rights in real-world democracies.

Peter Feldman
Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics / School of Population Health
Research Area
Social Determinants of Inequality, including but not limited to: Health inequalities; Spatially patterned disadvantage; Income and wealth distribution. Neo-liberal economics, globalization and the shrinking state. Governing through ‘communities’.

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John Fitzgerald
Principal Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Centre for Health and Society
Research Area
Drug use (legal and illegal), drug policy, social policy, marginalisation. My research focuses on the social outcomes from alcohol and drug use and the development of knowledge that can facilitate better drug and social policy.

Marion Frere
Deputy Director, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health
Research Area
The health and wellbeing impacts of violence, including: Family violence; Violence and culture; Public policy and governance, especially networks and partnerships; Community wellbeing and community indicators

Beth Gaze
Associate Professor, Law
Research Area
Generally I am interested in women’s’ rights and domestic implementation of human rights. My current research projects include evaluation of discrimination complaints procedures and of the experience of individuals appealing to the Social Security Appeals tribunals. I am also a member of the Victorian Mental Health Review Board and a past member of the Social Security appeals Tribunal.

Bill Genat
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Centre for Health and Society
Research Area
Bill is interested in action research methods that acknowledge local Indigenous understandings and ways of working, support self-determination and create positive social change. Currently, he co-ordinates a project focused on the design and delivery of curricula in Indigenous Australian public health.

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Ray Green
Associate Professor
Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning
Research Area
The perceptual consequences of tourism development in small town communities . Exploring links between urban open spaces and benefits to public health. Exploring relationships between environmental sustainability and public environmental values and perceptions. Community participation in environmental planning. Development of methods for modelling public perceptions and experiences of environmental change in fragile environments – coastal, mountain, arid region, etc.

Russell Gruen
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Surgery (RMH/WH)
Research Area
Medical Professionalism & social justice/ public responsibilities of health professionals. Evidence-based practice & relevance/applicability to disadvantaged populations & settings. Trauma, injury & violence research. Quality & safety of medical care

R. Harindranath
Senior Lecturer, Arts
Media & Communications, School of Culture and Communication
Research Area
Global media, economy and cultures; Media audiences and democratic participation; The cultural politics of ‘race’ and representation; Refugee communities, social justice, and ethnomimesis; South Asian media, culture and society; Transnational cultural formations and the media.

Lou Harms
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Social Work
Research Area
Social work practice with Indigenous populations; Trauma (psychosocial) and health, particularly in relation to road trauma, but other emergency care; Trauma and resilience issues – refugee experiences, substance abuse – intimately connected with social justice issues.

Cathy Humphries
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Alfred Felton Chair of Child and Family Welfare, Social Work at Melbourne and Alfred Felton Research Program
Research Area
My research interests traverse the area of domestic and family violence, the children and families sector; and research utilisation (the knowledge exchange agenda). In each of these areas I have a keen interest in the issues of social justice and the complexities of the human rights agenda applied across the areas of violence against women and the issues of child abuse. The children’s rights agenda is one in which I hold a particular interest.

lynette Joubert
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Nursing and Social Work
Research Area
Health and social inequalities in particular in relation to access and barriers to health services.

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Anne Kavanagh
Associate Professor
Key Centre for Women’s Health, School of Population Health
Research Area
Women’s health, social epidemiology, screening for disease, research methods in public health

Marcia Langton
Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Centre for Health and Society, Department of Population Health
Research Area
Indigenous agreements, treaties and settlements; Indigenous water management; traditional ecological knowledge; Indigenous land tenure; Indigenous visual and performative arts; social aspects of political and economic development in Australia, East Timor and other postcolonial states.

Wendy Larcombe
Senior Lecturer, Law
Research Area
Violence against women; Criminal justice responses to sexual violence; Reproductive rights and sexual health; Normative and non-normative subjectivities

Glenda MacNaughton
Professor and Director, Education
Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood
Research Area
Children as citizens and children’s rights; Human rights in the early childhood curriculum, especial focus on cultural diversity and gender; Social justice and early childhood

Anthony Marcus
Senior Lecturer, Arts
Development Studies, School of Social and Environmental Enquiry
Research Area
Research focuses on the intersection of class inequality and social caste designations, such as race, gender, ethnicity, etc. Particularly interested in political responses, at all social levels, to social injustices. Much of his work has been on urban poverty, public policy and social mobilisation in Spanish and English-speaking America, particularly Mexico, the US, Guatemala, and Cuba, where he has done field research. Also interested in educational access as a vehicle for melding social justice theory and practical applications.

Shelley Mallet
Senior Lecturer
Key Centre For Women’s Health in Society, Dep Public Health, School Population Health
Research Area
Social disadvantage and young people; Homelessness; Health inequalities, particularly in relation to marginalized populations; Health and welfare policy, program and service delivery

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Paul Mees
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning
Research Area
Transport planning; Urban planning
Nikos Nikiforakis
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Economics and Commerce
School of Economics
Research Area
Laboratory experiments to investigate issues such as anti-social behavior, feuds, decentralized enforcement of cooperation, the impact of fairness consideration in markets, charitable giving and gender roles

Jane Page
Senior Lecturer, Education
Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood
Research Area
Young children’s discourses of emotions and citizenship. Children’s rights, Young children’s perceptions of the future

Sundhya Pahuja
Associate Professor, Law
Co-Director, Law and Development Research Programme, Institute for International Law and the Humanities
Research Area
Interested in understanding inequality on an international scale. Conducts interdisciplinary research in the areas of international economic law, public international law and development refracted through an overtly theoretical lens drawing on methods which include postcolonial approaches, political philosophy and political economy and political and economic history

David Philips
Associate Professor (retired), Arts
School of Historical Studies
Research Area
Modern British social history, with an emphasis on crime, criminal justice, policing and punishment; Crime, criminal justice, policing and punishment in Colonial Australia; Comparative history of relations between indigenous people and white colonists in British colonies of settlement (notably South Africa and Australia); South African history, especially the history of apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994

Winsome Roberts
Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Social Work
Research Area
Political economy and increasing inequality in Australia; Historical perspectives on inequality in Australia; Social movements; Social justice and economic (human) rights

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Kate Shaw
Research Fellow
Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning
Research Area
‘Creative cities’, cultural diversity and social equity; Urban regeneration and gentrification; Student housing and place-making

Paul Smythe
Professorial Fellow
Centre for Public Policy, School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology
Research Area
Australian social policy – the interrelationship of social and economic policy; wages, welfare and employment policies; social rights and obligations; state and civil society in delivery of welfare; corporate social responsibility; place based social policysearch Area

Joo-Cheong Tham
Senior Lecturer, Law
Research Area
Political finance and its regulation; Australian and UK counter-terrorism laws; Regulation of non-standard work

Peteres Verhezen
Senior Fellow, Economics and Commerce
Department of Management
Research Area
A philosophical understanding of the notion of ‘social justice’; corporate social responsibility and ethics in business and society; the concept of ‘fairness’ in business and society; equality, competitiveness and social justice; anti-corruption campaigns constituting social justice; public good versus private interests; the dynamics of social norms and ethical values across (cultural) borders; the relevance of integrity in any form of exchange (in society); ethical norms and values: a cultural relativist perspective versus an ethical universalism; how clash of cultural and religious perspectives affect social justice

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