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Associate Professor Robert van Krieken
Degree Director - Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies
Chair, Department of Sociology and Social Policy
robertvk@usyd.edu.au
Room 131
RC Mills Building
+612 9351 2641
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Associate Professor Robert van Krieken is the main author of Australia's leading
sociology textbook, "Sociology: Themes and Perspectives". He is Chair of the
Department of Sociology and Social Policy, and President of the International
Sociological Association's Research Committee 53, Sociology of Childhood.
After gaining his Bachelor of Arts and PhD from the University of NSW, he completed an LLB at the University of Sydney, and has subsequently developed a range of units of study in the Sociology of Law. He is currenlty running an ARC-funded project examining the range of recent changes to family law from a historical and sociological perspective.
Deirdre Howard-Wagner was Principal Researcher and Deputy Director of the Justice
Policy Research Centre, within the School of Law at the University
of Newcastle.
Deirdre Howard-Wagner completed a First Class Honours degree in Sociology at
the Australian National University before undertaking a PhD
in Sociology at the University of Newcastle.
Her doctoral research focused on contemporary frameworks for the recognition
of Indigenous rights, and was based on data collected from
two years of ethnographic research. Deirdre has applied qualitative and quantitative
socio-legal research experience, particularly in relation to
Indigenous
law and personal injury and compensation law.
Her most recent research includes a study of changes to the motor vehicle accidents
compensation scheme and a study of changes to Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Legal Services. She has taught a number of socio-legal
courses, including socio-legal research theory and practice
and Indigenous
people, issues and the law.
Deirdre has also presented papers at a number of international socio-legal conferences,
for example, considering the public liability crisis as a moral
panic, applying whiteness theory to an analysis of native title judgements,
and examining the relationship between neo-liberalism and the
repositioning of Indigenous rights.
Dr Rebecca Scott Bray holds a BA (Hons) from the Australian National University, a Masters in Criminology from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Criminology from the University of Melbourne.
Her areas of research interest include forensic criminology and medico-legal discourse, photography and aesthetics and coronial law and practice. Her research is concerned with the historical and contemporary role of forensic and medico-legal discourse and also examines the negotiation of art practices in circumstances of trauma and crime. In addition, her work explores legal and cultural efforts around regulating the dead, including theorising images, evidence, injury, testimony and the mortuary. Her current research involves an analysis of US penal political history and reimagination of burial space in New York, an exploration of visual discourses in mortuary life, and the role of coronial practice in Australia. Rebecca joined the department in 2005 and comes to her position as Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies from a research position at the State Coroner's Office in Melbourne, Victoria. Prior to this, she coordinated government involvement in coronial inquests in Melbourne and has also taught in the criminology department at the University of Melbourne.
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