Our People
Our people
Associate Professor Garner Clancey, Lead
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Associate Professor Emma Barrett, The Matilda Centre
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Lluwannee George
Lluwannee George currently works within Human Resources as the Manager, Indigenous Employment. She previously worked as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar AO, at the Australian Human Rights Commission where she contributed to the writing of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Women’s Voice Report 2020. Lluwannee also spent over 10 years working in the Justice sector for Youth Justice (formally Juvenile Justice NSW) in the Juvenile Justice Aboriginal Strategic Coordination Unit. This included managing the Agency’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategic Plan.
Dr Jedidiah Evans
Jedidiah Evans is a Lecturer in the Discipline of English. His current research focuses on arts and incarceration, with a particular interest in prison writing.
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Dr Samuel Shpall
Sam Shpall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. He previously taught philosophy in four New York State Correctional Facilities as a faculty member of the Bard Prison Initiative.
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Research students
Higher degree research students are also actively engaged in youth justice research.
Brenda Lin
PhD candidate, The University of Sydney Law School
Operationalisation of the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) approach to rehabilitation in NSW Youth Justice Centres through the exploration of a staff induction training course.
Laura Metcalfe
PhD candidate, The University of Sydney Law School
The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in NSW: Examining the operation of doli incapax and implications of reform.
Luke Strong
PhD candidate, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
Restorative sound environments in adult and youth correctional facilities: Architectural considerations for the design of prisons.
Susan Morley
Master of Design candidate, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
Improving rehabilitation outcomes: Using gamification as an effective intervention approach for young offenders in NSW.
Research Assistants
Joseph Clarke
Joseph Clarke a Proud Gomeroi/Murrawarri Man from Bourke, Far West NSW. Joe has worked in Alcohol and Other Drugs outreach, Domestic and Family Violence, and community resilience and played a key role in establishing a Social and Emotional Wellbeing Program, driving culturally responsive strategies and leading COVID response efforts. Joe proudly served as Chair of the Cancer Codesign Treatment Program for the Far West in collaboration with the University of Sydney, amongst other notable achievements.
Gabriel McGuire
Gabriel McGuire is a fourth-year law student at the University of Sydney. He has recently completed an honours in philosophy, writing his thesis on the justifiability of juvenile incarceration: Locked Up & Locked Out: Incarceration & Children's Interests.