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Biography
Professor Alison Gerard arrived as Head of the Canberra Law School in mid-2020. Alison's research focuses on social justice issues and has been published in leading international and Australian journals. Her sixth book, which focuses on the criminalisation of young people in Out-of-Home Care, will be published by Routledge in 2021.
Alison is on the Executive of the Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) and the Australasian Law Academics Association (ALAA) as Treasurer. Alison also contributes to the CALD Working Party on First People's Partnership.
Alison has developed an emerging research program with CSU Indigenous Academic Fellow, Annette Gainsford, on the incoporation of Indigenous perspectives in law and criminology curriculum. Alison founded Charles Sturt University's law program and the Centre for Law and Justice prior to coming to the University of Canberra.
Alison has a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from UTS, a Bachelor of Arts (Hons)(Criminal Justice and Criminology) from Monash University, a Master of International Humanitarian Action from Ruhr University (Germany) and a PhD from Monash University for which Alison won the Mollie Holman Medal. Alison previously worked in private practice and with Legal Aid, including stints at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Maurice Blackburn Cashman and Victoria Legal Aid. Alison has undertaken consultancies with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Cambodia and will shortly commence on their External Board.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Monash University
3 Jul 2009 → 4 Feb 2012
Award Date: 11 Oct 2012
Master, Ruhr University Bochum
4 Sep 2007 → 24 Dec 2008
Award Date: 8 Dec 2008
Bachelor, Monash University
3 Jan 2003 → 2 Dec 2003
Award Date: 10 Oct 2004
Bachelor, University of Technology Sydney
2 Feb 1998 → 8 Dec 2001
Award Date: 1 Jul 2002
External positions
Board Member, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
5 Oct 2020 → …Executive, Australasian Law Academics Association
7 Jul 2019 → …Executive , Council of Australian Law Deans
10 Oct 2018 → …Executive, Committee of Management, West Bathurst PreSchool
20 Feb 2018 → 4 Feb 2020Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University
2 Feb 2012 → …Fingerprint
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Research Output
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Care-experienced children and the criminal justice system
McGrath, A., Gerard, A. & Colvin, E., 10 Sep 2020, Australia: Australian Institute of Criminology. 14 p. (Trends Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice)Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Children in care: The criminalisation of children
Gerard, A., Colvin, E. & McGrath, A., 30 Aug 2020, (Accepted/In press) Prisons and Community Corrections : Critical Issues and Emerging Controversies. Birch, P. & Sicard, L. (eds.). London: Taylor & Francis, p. 1-12 12 p. (Routledge Innovation in Corrections Series).Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Other chapter contribution
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Children in out-of-home care and the criminal justice system: A mixed-method study
Colvin, E., Gerard, A. & McGrath, A., 10 Sep 2020, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. 87 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Intersectional Women in the Borderlands
Gerard, A. & Marmo, M., 30 Jul 2020, Border Criminologies, 2020, 07, p. 1-2 2 p.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Bulletin › Special issue
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Yindyamarra in Action: Indigenous Cultural Competence as Core Business within Legal Education and Law Schools
Gainsford, A., Gerard, A. & Bailey, K., 1 Jan 2020, Teaching Aboriginal Cultural Competence. Hill, B., Harris, J. & Bacchus, R. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter