Mark Scott is Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Prior to his appointment as ABC Managing Director, he was employed by John Fairfax Publications – publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, among others – where he worked in a variety of editorial, editorial management and organisation development positions over 12 years. [...]
Dr Carolyn Whitzman is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. Previously, she worked for the City of Toronto on healthy city initiatives. Dr Whitzman has an international reputation for her work on the prevention of violence. Current research interests include the development of integrated violence prevention initiatives at the local government [...]
Father Peter Norden has a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Social Studies from the University of Melbourne and a Masters in Social Work (La Trobe University). He is currently a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has a stong interest in matters including criminal justice, prisoners’ rights and sentencing. Published articles [...]
Bronwyn Hinz is a PhD candidate, tutor and researcher at the University of Melbourne. Her book, ‘Many Hopes, One Dream: The Story of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria, (Australian Scholarly Publishing) was launched last week by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, the Victorian Minister for Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino, and the Victorian Shadow Minister [...]
Dr Meredith Nash recently completed a PhD which examined experiences of pregnancy among Australian women in the context of female body image, celebrity pregnancy and biomedicine. She is currently working in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry and is writing a book about the ’skinny pregnancy’ based on her dissertation.
I first noticed [...]
The Graffiti Prevention Act 2007: Criminalising Young People for Street Art and Graffiti
Alison Young is a Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches and researches in cultural criminology. She is the author of numerous books and articles on the intersections of law, crime and [...]
Professor J Hyam Rubinstein works in the Geometry and Topology research group in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. His research interests include Differential Geometry, Geometric Topology of 3- and 4- manifolds, Minimal Surfaces and Shortest Network Design, and he is supervising three PhD and three Honours students.
Professor Rubenstein is working on projects funded [...]
Associate Professor Tilman Ruff from the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne is an infectious diseases and public health physician, with particular interests in vaccines and immunisation and in the urgent public health imperative to abolish nuclear weapons. He serves as International Medical Adviser to Australian Red Cross; and technical [...]
Professor Joshua Gans is an economic researcher and consultant. At the Melbourne Business School he has taught across a wide range of subjects and courses, including managerial economics, the economics of innovation, competition and regulation, incentives and contracts and advanced game theory.
Professor Gans’ research interests are diverse, ranging from the economics of innovation to game [...]
Professor Antonia Finnane of the School of Historical Studies is interested in the social history and material culture of China over the last 500 years. She has published articles and books in on Chinese urban history, with particular reference to Yangzhou; on the history of clothing and fashion in China; and on the Jewish refugee [...]
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