Strengths, Experiences, and Learning Support Needs of System-Impacted Students in Criminology and Law
Strengths, Experiences, and Learning Support Needs of System-Impacted Students in Criminology and Law
George Christopher Dertadian Andy Kaladelfos Phillip Wadds Sharleigh Crittenden Tina McPhee Lukas Carey Centre for Criminology Law and Justice, University of New South WalesDr George Dertadian is a social researcher who works on stolen and unceded Bedagal land as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Faculty of Law and Justice, at the University of New South Wale. His work involves field-based research with people who use drugs, and he is an advocate for non-carceral responses to drug use with a particular focus on harm reduction.Dr Andy Kaladelfos (They/Them) is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in School of Law, Society and Criminology, University of New South Wales, where they specialise in research on sexual and gender-based violence and queer criminology. Andy is the UNSW Co-Convenor of the Gendered Violence Research Network, and Co-Lead of the Community of Practice in Inclusive Research with Queer, Trans, and Intersex People.Dr Phillip Wadds is Associate Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW and a member of the Centre for Criminology, Law & Justice. He is a qualitative social researcher whose primary research explores themes and topics including policing, nightlife and music festivals, alcohol and other drug use and related violence, all with an overarching concern for the reduction of harm. He works with government, industry and community organisations to support the implementation of community/peer-led safety initiatives and is the author of Policing Nightlife: Security, Transgression and Urban Order (Routledge, 2020) and lead editor of Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward (Palgrave, 2020).Sharleigh Crittenden is a Wiradjrui woman and socio-legal researcher with lived experiences of colonial systems, such as the out-of-home care system. She writes and researches at the intersection of indigenous right and self-determination, legal history, and criminal legal systems.Tina McPhee (She/Her) is a PdD candidate at UNSW, lived experience criminologist and lived experience advocacy coordinator at Justice Reform Initiative.Dr Lukas Carey works as a Lecturer in Criminology and Education at UNSW. As a past school principal, his work focusses on justice impacted and disengaged young people and their engagement with the education system. He is an advocate for the importance lived experience plays in influencing policy and procedure in both legal and education settings.