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Dr Zoe Staines
Dr

Zoe Staines

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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

  • Welfare conditionality

  • Gender and work

  • (Universal) Basic Income

Works

Search Professor Zoe Staines’s works on UQ eSpace

94 works between 2009 and 2025

81 - 94 of 94 works

2018

Journal Article

Closing the gap requests for Indigenous participation are ironic - at best

Staines, Zoe (2018, 02 09). Closing the gap requests for Indigenous participation are ironic - at best Independent Australia

Closing the gap requests for Indigenous participation are ironic - at best

2018

Journal Article

Overcoming social disadvantage by investing in Indigenous teenage mothers—an integrated policy approach

Staines, Zoe and Jose, Fiona (2018). Overcoming social disadvantage by investing in Indigenous teenage mothers—an integrated policy approach. Solutions Journal, 9 (2).

Overcoming social disadvantage by investing in Indigenous teenage mothers—an integrated policy approach

2018

Journal Article

Ground-level impacts of remote employment policy: social disadvantage under the Community Development Programme

Staines, Zoe (2018). Ground-level impacts of remote employment policy: social disadvantage under the Community Development Programme. Journal of Australian Political Economy (82), 107-132.

Ground-level impacts of remote employment policy: social disadvantage under the Community Development Programme

2017

Journal Article

We’re not closing the gap on Indigenous employment, it’s widening

Staines, Zoe (2017, 12 22). We’re not closing the gap on Indigenous employment, it’s widening The Conversation

We’re not closing the gap on Indigenous employment, it’s widening

2017

Other Outputs

We’re not closing the gap on Indigenous employment, it’s widening

Staines, Zoe (2017, 12 22). We’re not closing the gap on Indigenous employment, it’s widening The Conversation

We’re not closing the gap on Indigenous employment, it’s widening

2017

Journal Article

Lessons from the recent policy experience in the Indigenous community-employment sector

Staines, Zoe (2017). Lessons from the recent policy experience in the Indigenous community-employment sector. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 20 (3), 229-248.

Lessons from the recent policy experience in the Indigenous community-employment sector

2013

Journal Article

Students’ engagement with Facebook in a university undergraduate policing unit

Staines, Zoe and Lauchs, Mark (2013). Students’ engagement with Facebook in a university undergraduate policing unit. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 29 (6), 792-805. doi: 10.14742/ajet.270

Students’ engagement with Facebook in a university undergraduate policing unit

2013

Journal Article

The use of Facebook in tertiary education: a case study of a unit-related Facebook page in a university justice class

Staines, Zoe and Lauchs, Mark (2013). The use of Facebook in tertiary education: a case study of a unit-related Facebook page in a university justice class. Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 10 (4), 285-296. doi: 10.1108/ITSE-05-2013-0008

The use of Facebook in tertiary education: a case study of a unit-related Facebook page in a university justice class

2013

Journal Article

Managing tacit investigative knowledge: measuring investigative thinking styles

Staines, Zoe (2013). Managing tacit investigative knowledge: measuring investigative thinking styles. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 36 (3), 604-619. doi: 10.1108/PIJPSM-07-2012-0072

Managing tacit investigative knowledge: measuring investigative thinking styles

2013

Other Outputs

Knowledge management in criminal investigation: empirical examination and re-conceptualisation of dean's investigative thinking styles

Staines, Zoe (2013). Knowledge management in criminal investigation: empirical examination and re-conceptualisation of dean's investigative thinking styles. PhD Thesis, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology.

Knowledge management in criminal investigation: empirical examination and re-conceptualisation of dean's investigative thinking styles

2012

Journal Article

Career path of a corruption entrepreneur

Lauchs, Mark and Staines, Zoe (2012). Career path of a corruption entrepreneur. Global Crime, 13 (2), 109-129. doi: 10.1080/17440572.2012.678620

Career path of a corruption entrepreneur

2011

Journal Article

Capturing investigative knowledge: methodological scaffolding for measuring thinking styles of police investigators

Dean, Geoff and Staines, Zoe (2011). Capturing investigative knowledge: methodological scaffolding for measuring thinking styles of police investigators. Ministry of Home Affairs Home Team Journal (3), 120-132.

Capturing investigative knowledge: methodological scaffolding for measuring thinking styles of police investigators

2011

Journal Article

Creativity in policing: building the necessary skills to solve complex and protracted investigations

Staines, Zoe (2011). Creativity in policing: building the necessary skills to solve complex and protracted investigations. Ministry of Home Affairs Home Team Journal (3), 133-144.

Creativity in policing: building the necessary skills to solve complex and protracted investigations

2009

Conference Publication

Public sector legislation in Queensland: old or new directions?

Lauchs, Mark and Staines, Zoe (2009). Public sector legislation in Queensland: old or new directions?. IPAA National Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 2009. Institute of Public Administration Australia.

Public sector legislation in Queensland: old or new directions?

Funding

Past funding

  • 2024
    Leaving welfare conditionality behind: exploring perceptions regarding (universal) basic income in Australia
    UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Youth Sexual Violence on Cape York and West Cairns
    Cape York Institute
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    The COVID-19 Tenant/Resident Support and Analysis Project
    Tenants QLD
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2023
    Unemployment in remote Australia: exploring policy reform impacts
    ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Dr Zoe Staines is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • 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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    From Access to Advancement: Exploring Women's Career Trajectories within Bangladesh's Digitally Transforming Banking Sector

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Conceptions and experiences of home under residualisation in Brisbane¿s social housing

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Lynda Cheshire

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Older private renters and evictions in Queensland, Australia

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Lynda Cheshire

  • 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

Media

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