When: 1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 22 September, 2009
Where: Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Professor Ross Homel AO, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director, Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research, Griffith University
Ross Homel is Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Director of the Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research, a virtual network of over 100 academic staff in the social and behavioural sciences. He has held senior research management positions within Griffith University since 1993 including as Director of the highly successful Australian Research Council Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance between 2004 and 2007. He was responsible (with Jan Carter) for establishing a national set of research priorities to advance the wellbeing of children and young people and for setting up a new Australian Research Council research network, while undertaking a half time role with the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth in 2002 and 2003. Between 1994 and 1999 he was a part time Commissioner for the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission. He is Vice-President of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Academy Executive, and has won numerous awards for his research on the prevention of crime, violence and injuries. Professor Homel’s accomplishments were recognised in January 2008 when he was appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) “for service to education, particularly in the field of criminology, through research into the causes of crime, early intervention and prevention methods.” In May 2008 he was recognized with an award from the Premier of Queensland as a ‘Queensland Great’, “for his contribution to Queensland’s reputation for research excellence, the development of social policy and justice reform and helping Queensland’s disadvantaged communities.” In December 2008 he was shortlisted for 2009 Australian of the Year.
Please contact the McCaughey Centre on 8244 9101 for further information.
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