Ms Ingrid Matthews

Ingrid Matthews holds Bachelor degrees in Economics (UNE 1992) and Law (UNE 2008) graduating with the 2007 NSW Bar Association Human Rights Law prize. Ingrid is a mother of three who has worked with Aboriginal women escaping domestic violence in Alice Springs and is a founding volunteer with the award-winning Yellomundee Aboriginal Bush Care group. She is currently a sessional academic at the University of Western Sydney, teaching Legal Ethics and Jurisprudence at the School of Law, and research assistant on the Australian Research Council project Promoting young people's citizenship in a complex world at the UWS Institute for Culture and Society. She has co-authored (with Professor Bob Hodge) three peer-reviewed papers in cultural studies journals.

Ingrid is enrolled in an MA (Research) at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, supervised by Associate Professor Jake Lynch. Her thesis is on Western reporting of Israeli violations of humanitarian law, and she has co-presented several papers on the rights of Palestinian people at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney. Her thesis is provisionally titled Media Representations of Human Rights Law Violations in Gaza.

This information has been contributed by Ms Matthews.