Research projects
Completed
The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (TAPPC) - Systems approaches to the prevention of lifestyle related chronic disease
TAPPC identifies new ways of understanding what works and what doesn’t to prevent lifestyle-related chronic health problems in Australia.
The Canberra bullying and life at school project (1996-1999)
This project tracked children who bullied others, and were the victims of bullying, and provides insight into their thoughts and actions over a three-year period.
The domestic moral economy in the Asia and Pacific region
This project involved international comparative work with the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester under a project ‘The domestic moral economy: an ethnographic study of values i
The effectiveness of model work health and safety laws
An integrated series of research projects examining the implementation and impact of Australia’s harmonised work health and safety (WHS) laws.
The governance of synthetic illicit drugs
This project sought to identify outstanding examples of the ways in which police harness external resources to control illicit synthetic drugs.
The impact of political reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
This collaborative ARC Discovery Project (with Prof. Renee Jeffery and Prof. Dr Joanne Wallis) involved research on reconciliation practices in Timor-Leste, the Solomon Islands and Bougainville.
The new policing: Partnerships, resources and modes of governance
This project aimed to establish Australia as a world leader in policing research and policing practice.
The politics of international criminal justice after the Arab uprisings
This project interrogates how international criminal law can reshape state-society relations in periods of transition after conflict or repressive rule.
The reintegrative shaming experiment (RISE) and shaming in institutional settings
This project examines the relationship between shame and guilt and how the social process of shaming interacts with institutional settings and personal characteristics to produce shame/guilt feelings.
The role of the banking industry in global climate change mitigation
The finance sector - particularly the banking, investment and insurance industries - has potential through its own business practices to facilitate and incentivize greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduct
