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Professor David Tait - Leader, Justice Research

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David Tait is the Leader of the Justice Research Group.  He is a scholar in criminology and sociology with a background in social statistics, guardianship and mental health, sentencing, jury research and urban sociology. Prior to taking up the position at UWS, David was Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at the Law School of the University of Canberra from January 2005 until May 2009.

Dr Meredith Rossner - Research Fellow

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Meredith Rossner joined the Justice Research Group on the Bankstown campus as a Research Fellow in October 2009. Dr Rossner received her PhD in Sociology and Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has conducted original research on the emotional dynamics and crime reduction potential of face-to-face restorative justice meetings with offenders and victims of serious crime. More broadly, she is interested in how people think about, talk about, and create 'justice' in our society.

Dr Emma Rowden

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Emma started working with the Justice Research Group in 2008 as an Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) recipient on one of our Australian Research Council projects Gateways to Justice: improving video-mediated communications between justice participants. Since receiving her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2011 for her thesis entitled: "Remote participation and the distributed court: an approach to court architecture in the age of video-mediated communication", she has been working on the ARC "Court Safety" project. With a background in media, performance and architecture, Emma is particularly interested in the role of the built environment in shaping experiences of inclusion, safety, comfort, fairness and respect in public institutions.