Honorary Professor Heather Douglas
Honorary Professor

Heather Douglas

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Honorary Professor Heather Douglas is:
Available for supervision
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, Monash University
  • Bachelor of Law, Monash University
  • Masters (Coursework) of Law, Queensland University of Technology
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne

Search Professor Heather Douglas’s works on UQ eSpace

281 works between 1996 and 2026
All (281) Book (12) Journal Article (144) Other Outputs (17) Conference Publication (83) Book Chapter (25)

281 - 281 of 281 works

1996

Journal Article

Indigenous legal education: looking towards the future

Douglas, Heather (1996). Indigenous legal education: looking towards the future. Legal Education Review, 7 (2), 225-246.

Indigenous legal education: looking towards the future

Past funding

  • 2020 - 2021
    Termination of Pregnancy Legislation and Policy Implementation
    Queensland Health
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    The non-fatal strangulation offence as a response to domestic violence
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2022
    Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision-Making (ARC Discovery Indigenous grant administered by the University of Technology Sydney)
    ARC Discovery Indigenous
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2021
    National Family Violence Bench Book
    The Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporated
    Open grant
  • 2015
    Understanding justice system responses to domestic violence in Queensland
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund - Seed Research Grant
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2020
    Using law and ending domestic violence: Women's voices.
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2014
    Australian Feminist Judgments Project: Jurisprudence as Praxis
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Building research capacity for quantitative analysis of Indigenous poverty and policy interventions
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2012
    FASD within the Criminal Justice Sector in Queensland
    Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation Ltd.
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2011
    Law enforcement and Khat: An analysis of current issues
    National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2009
    An exploration of legal responses to family violence, breakdown and homelessness: enhancing outcomes for children at risk and their families
    UQ External Support Enabling Grant
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2008
    Equality and the Criminal Law
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Honorary Professor Heather Douglas is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Criminal law and procedure

    • disclosure and fair trial;
    • unrepresented defendants in criminal matters and the role of judges;
    • post-sentence detention (eg: dangerous offenders, indefinites sentences etc.

    For further information contact Professor Heather Douglas, e: h.douglas@law.uq.edu.au

  • Topics that explore legal issues related to domestic and family violence

    • use of exclusion or ouster orders in legislation and by the courts;
    • development of specific offences (stalking, torture etc) and their implementation;
    • development of defences (eg provocation, battered persons defence) and use in courts;
    • role of the victim in charge and prosecution of criminal offences;
    • special courts and alternative justice mechanisms in domestic and family violence matters.

    For further information contact Professor Heather Douglas, e: h.douglas@law.uq.edu.au

Supervision history

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Honorary Professor Heather Douglas directly for media enquiries about:

  • Aboriginal peoples and criminal law
  • Aboriginal peoples and domestic violence
  • Abortion and the law
  • Australian judicial decision-making
  • Criminal law and Indigenous people
  • Criminal law and procedure
  • Domestic violence
  • Domestic violence in Indigenous communities
  • Family violence
  • FASD
  • Feminism
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and the Law
  • Human rights
  • Indigenous people and criminal law
  • law reform
  • sentencing
  • Social justice law
  • Stalking and technology facilitated abuse
  • Violence - domestic

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