Dr Janet Hope came to ANU as a National Undergraduate Scholar in the early 1990s. She worked as a barrister for several years in Australia and New Zealand before completing a PhD in Law at RegNet in 2004. As a final year PhD candidate, Janet was lead investigator on a successful ARC Discovery grant application and Postdoctoral Fellowship.
From 2005 until 2010 she was a member of RegNet’s academic staff, leading a second successful ARC Discovery application and publishing an international award-winning monograph with Harvard University Press. During this time her research and teaching focused on intellectual property law and policy, governance of collaborative technology development and the process of creating scientific and other forms of knowledge.
In 2011, Janet’s experience over two decades volunteering in disability, health and mental health advocacy and victim support led her to step out of academia and train as an International Coach Federation PCC-credentialed coach. For 8 years she ran an independent coaching practice, joining the Canberra Restorative Community Network (CRCN) in 2016.
She has recently returned to academia as a Senior Lecturer at Canberra Law School, University of Canberra. Janet works with Dr Holly Northam OAM and others to develop explicit restorative practices in the UC Hospital and at UC more broadly. With other members of the CRCN she is carrying out a community interviewing project, mapping individual stories behind the concept of Canberra as a restorative city.
