Overview
Background
Zoe Staines is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. Her research is deeply interdisciplinary, critically examining social policy, gender and work, welfare conditionality, coloniality, and rural/remote crime and governance, with a central focus on addressing structural injustice. Before entering academia, she held senior research and policy roles in government and the not-for-profit sector. She is currently Co-Editor-In-Chief of leading interdisciplinary journal, the Australian Journal of Social Issues (Q1).
Availability
- Dr Zoe Staines is:
- Not available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology
Research interests
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Welfare conditionality
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Gender and work
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(Universal) Basic Income
Works
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2025
Other Outputs
A UBI for Australia? A nationally representative survey of Australians' views on UBI
Staines, Zoe (2025). A UBI for Australia? A nationally representative survey of Australians' views on UBI. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2025
Book Chapter
Understanding and transforming indigenous policy evaluation
Watego, Chelsea, Brady, Karla, Hassall, Keryn, Macoun, Alissa, Mukandi, Bryan, Singh, David, Staines, Zoe and Strakosch, Elizabeth (2025). Understanding and transforming indigenous policy evaluation. Bureaucratic occupation: government and First Nations peoples. (pp. 275-291) edited by Julie Lahn, Elizabeth Strakosch and Patrick Sullivan. London, United Kingdom: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-67733-5_16
2025
Other Outputs
Submission to the Policy Review of the Australian Research Council (ARC) National Competitive Grants Program
Staines, Zoe and Fennell, Natalie (2025). Submission to the Policy Review of the Australian Research Council (ARC) National Competitive Grants Program. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2025
Other Outputs
Submission to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS’) ‘Measuring unpaid care in the Labour Account’ consultation
Staines, Zoe, Klein, Elise and Hunt, Janet (2025). Submission to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS’) ‘Measuring unpaid care in the Labour Account’ consultation. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
2024
Journal Article
An intersectional feminist analysis of compulsory income management in Australia
Staines, Zoe, Marston, Greg, Peterie, Michelle, Bielefeld, Shelley, Mendes, Philip and Roche, Steven (2024). An intersectional feminist analysis of compulsory income management in Australia. Journal of Social Policy, 1-19. doi: 10.1017/s0047279424000205
2024
Other Outputs
‘Care is in everything we do and everything we are’: the work of Indigenous women needs to be valued
Klein, Elise, Brown, Chay, Hunt, Janet, Glynn-Braun, Kayla and Staines, Zoe (2024, 03 19). ‘Care is in everything we do and everything we are’: the work of Indigenous women needs to be valued The Conversation
2024
Other Outputs
Caring about Care (Wiyi Yani U Thangani - Women's Voices)
Klein, Elise, Hunt, Janet, Staines, Zoe, Dinku, Yonatan, Brown, Chay, Glynn-Braun, Kayla and Yap, Mandy (2024). Caring about Care (Wiyi Yani U Thangani - Women's Voices). Canberra, ACT Australia: Australian Human Rights Commission & ANU.
2024
Book Chapter
Whiteness in Criminology: Indigenous Overrepresentation
Staines, Zoe (2024). Whiteness in Criminology: Indigenous Overrepresentation. Handbook of Critical Whiteness. (pp. 365-382) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-5085-6_12
2023
Journal Article
Social science as social action to address inequalities
Staines, Zoe, Smith, Kiah, Plage, Stefanie, Nahar Lata, Lutfun, Fay, Suzanna, Zheng, Zhaoxi, Simpson Reeves, Laura, Beazley, Helen, Kuskoff, Ella, Clarke, Andrew, McGowan, Glenys, Shevellar, Lynda and Prangnell, Jonathan (2023). Social science as social action to address inequalities. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59 (1), 108-127. doi: 10.1002/ajs4.272
2023
Book
Introduction to the Social Sciences
Staines, Zoe, Hoffstaedter, Gerhard and Binnie, Ned (2023). Introduction to the Social Sciences. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/3e239ee
2023
Book Chapter
Feeling black and blue: Indigenous police liaison officers in the Torres Strait Region
Emzin, Chris, Scott, John and Staines, Zoe (2023). Feeling black and blue: Indigenous police liaison officers in the Torres Strait Region. Policing the global south: colonial legacies, pluralities, partnerships, and reform. (pp. 242-254) edited by Danielle Watson, Sara N. Amin, Wendell C. Wallace, Oluwagbenga (Michael) Akinlabi and Juan Carlos Ruiz-Vasquez. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003126409-22
2023
Book
Island Criminology
Scott, John and Staines, Zoe (2023). Island Criminology. Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv35n89qt
2023
Other Outputs
Wiyi Yani U Thangani Framework for Action for First Nations Gender Justice and Equality and the Establishment of the First Nations Gender Justice Institute Submission
Klein, Elise, Staines, Zoe and Hunt, Janet (2023). Wiyi Yani U Thangani Framework for Action for First Nations Gender Justice and Equality and the Establishment of the First Nations Gender Justice Institute Submission. Canberra, ACT Australia: AHRC.
2023
Book Chapter
Whiteness in criminology: Indigenous overrepresentation
Staines, Zoe (2023). Whiteness in criminology: Indigenous overrepresentation. Handbook of critical Whiteness: deconstructing dominant discourses across disciplines. (pp. 1-18) edited by Jioji Ravulo, Katarzyna Olcoń, Tinashe Dune, Alex Workman and Pranee Liamputtong. Singapore: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-1612-0_12-1
2023
Other Outputs
Submission to the Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services
Stambe, Rose, Marston, Greg, Staines, Zoe and Henman, Paul (2023). Submission to the Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services. Canberra, ACT Australia: Parliament of Australia.
2023
Conference Publication
Compulsory cashless welfare programs exacerbate inequalities and poverty for women: an intersectional feminist analysis of ‘Compulsory Income Management’ in Australia
Staines, Zoe, Marston, Greg, Peterie, Michelle, Bielefeld, Shelley, Mendes, Philip and Roche, Steven (2023). Compulsory cashless welfare programs exacerbate inequalities and poverty for women: an intersectional feminist analysis of ‘Compulsory Income Management’ in Australia. Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 5-7 July 2023.
2022
Other Outputs
Tackling gender-based inequality at the nexus of employment, social security, and care: what next for women?
Staines, Zoe (2022, 12 12). Tackling gender-based inequality at the nexus of employment, social security, and care: what next for women? The Power to Persuade
2022
Conference Publication
Attitudes towards care as remunerable labour
Staines, Zoe, Klein, Elise and Perales, Francisco (Paco) (2022). Attitudes towards care as remunerable labour. The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 28 November - 2 December 2022.
2022
Conference Publication
Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand
Mendes, Philip, Peterie, Michelle and Staines, Zoe (2022). Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand. The Australian Sociological Assocation National Conference, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 28 November - 2 December 2022.
2022
Other Outputs
Submission to Employment White Paper: supporting a sustainable 'care' economy
Staines, Zoe, Markham, Francis, Altman, Jon and Klein, Elise (2022). Submission to Employment White Paper: supporting a sustainable 'care' economy. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Government.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Zoe Staines is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Moving beyond incarceration: Exploring the intentions and impacts of legal debt collection policies on socially-disadvantaged groups in Queensland, Australia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lynda Shevellar
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Doctor Philosophy
From Access to Advancement: Exploring Women's Career Trajectories within Bangladesh's Digitally Transforming Banking Sector
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Conceptions and experiences of home under residualisation in Brisbane¿s social housing
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Lynda Cheshire
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Doctor Philosophy
The Liminal Place: Exploring the experiences of residents in two rural Australian border communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Cameron Parsell
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Doctor Philosophy
Moving beyond incarceration: Exploring the intentions and impacts of legal debt collection policies on socially-disadvantaged groups in Queensland, Australia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lynda Shevellar
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Doctor Philosophy
The Creation of Terrorists and Mass Shooters: A Comparative Analysis of Mass Shooting Events in America and New Zealand
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Suzanna Fay
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Doctor Philosophy
The Creation of Terrorists and Mass Shooters: A Comparative Analysis of Mass Shooting Events in America and New Zealand
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Suzanna Fay
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Doctor Philosophy
Older private renters and evictions in Queensland, Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Lynda Cheshire
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Doctor Philosophy
The Creation of Terrorists and Mass Shooters: A Comparative Analysis of Mass Shooting Events in America and New Zealand
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Suzanna Fay
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