Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Justice
Consultations with First Nations Stakeholders, Women and Girls involved with the Justice System
Client: Department of Justice and Attorney General
Deliverable: (In progress) Consultations with First Nations women and girls who have had contact with the criminal justice system, along with legal services, Elders, and other organisations that support them to gather information to inform the Department's co-design of a strategy to improve the experience of women and girls and reduce contact with the system.
Planning for new investments in Women's Legal Services in Queensland.
Client: Women’s Legal Service Queensland, North Queensland Women’s Legal Service, and First Nations Women’s Legal Service Queensland
Deliverable: The work involved systemwide environmental scanning, in depth data analysis using Microsoft PowerBI at each service, engaging diverse staff and sector perspectives, facilitating project participation by women with lived experience of accessing women’s legal services through each of the three services, and establishing agreed outcome indicators to guide subsequent service and evaluation design.
Design and implementation of action learning project for Queensland community legal centres
Client: Community Legal Centres Queensland
Deliverable: Nine community legal centres participated in the nine-month program involving focused independent engagement with each of four ‘trial sites’ and four workshops involving the four trial sites and five ‘buddy sites’ to support learning across the service group. Areas of focus included agreeing on baseline data collection metrics, developing and implementing an effective data reporting and analysis interface through use of Microsoft PowerBI, collection and analysis of baseline data, and subsequent development of evidence-based demand management strategies informed by data analysis.
Research into people participating in Murri Courts
Client: Department of Justice and Attorney General
Deliverable: Recognising the importance of lived expertise, the project team was majority Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and led by a First Nations business. The report presented descriptive data about the needs and circumstances of people participating in Murri Courts, along with practical suggestions for future data collection.
Understanding and responding to coercive control
Client: Women’s Legal Service Queensland in partnership with North Queensland Women’s Legal Service
Deliverable: The project output was a research report informed by integrating findings from a mixed methods approach, including WLSQ and NQWLS service data analysis, literature review, subject matter expert interviews and trauma-informed consumer engagement. The findings made recommendations to assist community legal centres better identify and respond to clients experiencing coercive control. The research also made recommendations to inform workforce planning and training, and government reforms in this space (highly topical at the time). The research was well received and used by the centres in advocacy and law reform work. Additionally, the research informed public policy, with the Department of Justice and Attorney-General drawing on our report when working with the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce.
Research into the experiences of young people in the youth justice system.
Client: Queensland Family and Child Commission
Deliverable: Children and young people aged 10-17 years involved in the youth justice system were interviewed to understand whether their rights were being upheld, if their wellbeing and safety was being protected, and their ideas for improving their life opportunities. The findings were incorporated into the QFCC report Changing the Sentence: Overseeing Queensland’s youth justice reforms which was commissioned to examine progress on elements of the Working Together Changing the Story: Youth Justice Strategy 2019-23 and inform systems reforms.