Research projects
With factors constantly reshaping the face of Law and Justice, it is imperative to be committed to continuous learning and research. Law and Justice staff also participate in faculty-based research in the Centre for Innovative Practice.
A list of our current research projects appears below.
School based
- Collateral damage: the impact of incarceration on family members
- Developing a screening tool for youth offenders in Western Australia: The Young Offender Risk Identification (YORI)
Sellenger Centre - Law and Justice Research
- Drug use monitoring in Australia
- Misuse of the information management system by public servants employed within WA Police
- The Sellenger Centre Criminal Justice Review project
- The use of human sources in intelligence-led policing
Sellenger Centre - Social Wellbeing Research
Sellenger Centre - Family and Family Law Research
- Fly-in-fly-out: the costs and benefits for employees
- Public perceptions of fairness in relation to the principles on which the Child Support Scheme is based
Centre for Innovative Practice
- A review of the potential for improvement in resource sector - a scoping study
- Encouraging innovative PhD research
- Fly into work; Fly out to Bali
- Fostering individual innovation
- Job design and employee innovation in the resources sector
- Legitimisation recruitment and retention: Innovation in resource sector small firms' and workers on temporary 457 visas
- Skill shortages in the WA resource sector
- Studying in prison may reduce welfare dependence
- Sustainability report assurance in the resources industry
- The impact of undergraduate employability skills provision
- The requirements of innovative practices in the WA resources sector