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Biography
Roberta Julian is the current Director at Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies at the University of Tasmania. She has published widely in the areas of immigrant and refugee settlement, ethnicity and health, globalisation and diaspora, and the relationships between class, gender and ethnic identity. Roberta has been the Chief Investigator of an ARC funded project on community policing and refugee settlement that focuses on African-Australians. Roberta was a foundation Director of TILES in 2003.
Her community-based research interests have been extended to include issues surrounding other 'at risk' populations such as young offenders. She has been Co-Chief Investigator for evaluations of two projects managed by Tasmania Police: the pilot of the U-Turn Program, a young recidivist car theft offender program, and Project Currawong, a series of adventure programs aimed at challenging young people and providing pathways into community participation. In 2004 she was awarded a three-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant to examine issues surrounding community policing and refugee settlement in Tasmania (with PhD student Danielle Campbell). She is also one of three Chief Investigators (with Dr Clarissa Hughes and Inspector Matthew Richman) awarded almost $0.5 million from the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation in 2006-7 to conduct the first Australian trial of an innovative alcohol misuse prevention approach among young people - known as 'Social Norms'.
She has a particular interest in forensic science. Between 2002 and 2005 she was Chief Investigator for a series of projects (funded by the National Institute of Forensic Science) that examined knowledge and awareness of forensic science among police in Tasmania, South Australia, and Victoria. She is currently the lead Chief Investigator in a five year ARC Linkage Grant ($970,000) with Victoria Police, the Australian Federal Police and the National Institute of Forensic Science that will begin in 2008. The other members are Professor Claude Roux (UTS), Professor Rob White (UTAS), Dr Hugh Sibly (UTAS) and Professor Pierre Margot (University of Lausanne). This project aims to examine the effectiveness of forensic science in the criminal justice system with a focus on police investigations and court outcomes.
Roberta Julian is a member of the Board of Studies of the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM), an Associate Investigator with the Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), Immediate Past President of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and member of the Tasmania Together Progress Boad. Her recent books are Australian Youth: Social and Cultural Issues (with Pamela Nilan and John Germov) (Pearson 2007) and the revised edition of Australian Sociology: A Changing Society (with David Holmes and Kate Hughes) (Pearson Longman, 2007).
Publications
A full Publications List is available on University of Tasmania - Web Access Research Portal (WARP)
(Research field - type in the surname of the academic)
Latest Publications
Kelty, S.F., & Julian, R. (2012). The 7-key Attributes of Good Crime Scene Examiners: Brief Report. Tasmanian Institute of Law enforcement Studies, Hobart, Tasmania.
Julian, R.D., Kelty, S.F., Roux, C., Woodman, P., Robertson, J et al (2011). What is the value of forensic science? An overview of the effectiveness of forensic science in the Australian criminal justice system project. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 43, 217.229.
Kelty, S.F., & Julian, R. (2011). What makes a Good Crime Scene Examiner? (Invited paper, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Gazette, 73 (1), 24-25.
Julian, R.D. ,& Kelty, S.F. (2010). The effectiveness of forensic science in criminal investigations [online]. Australasian Policing, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2009 - 2010: 10-15. Availability:
http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=970635406120648;res=IELHSS.
Campbell, D & Julian, R (2009) ‘Conversation on Trust: Community Policing and Refugee Settlement in Regional Australia’, Final Report Australian Research Council Linkage Project
Prichard, J., Matthews, A., Julian, R., Bruno, R., Rayment, K. & Mason, R. (2009) Review of the Road Safety (Alcohol and Drugs) Amendment Act 2005, Hobart: Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania.
Books
Holmes, David, Hughes, Kate & Julian, Roberta (2007) Australian Sociology: A Changing Society (Second Edition), Sydney: Pearson Australia.
Nilan, Pamela, Julian, Roberta & Germov, John (2007) Australian Youth: Social and Cultural Issues, Sydney: Pearson Australia.
Book Chapters
Julian, Roberta (2006) ‘The Legacy of Abel Tasman: Post-war Dutch settlement in Tasmania' in Nonja Peters (co-ordinating author), The Dutch Down Under: 1606-2006. Sydney: Wolters Kluwer, pp.184-203.
Refereed Journal Articles
Campbell, D& R Julian (2007) 'Community Policing and Refugee Settlement in Regional Australia: A Refugee Voice', The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Vol 7, (5) pp. 7-16.
Research Reports
Julian, R. & Prichard, J. (2009) Evaluation of suicide prevention community based initiatives: National suicide prevention strategy. Hobart:Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania.(Confidential Report - not available)
Mason, R. & Julian, R. (2009) The Tasmania Police Risk Assessment Screening Tool (RAST). Hobart:Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania.(Confidential Report - not available)
Richman, Matthew, Julian, Roberta & Hughes, Clarissa (2006) Comparative Analysis of Streestafe in Hobart and Launceston, Hobart: Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania, 59 pp.
Muskett, Paulette, Julian, Roberta , Richman, Matthew & Eckhardt, Mary (2006) Evaluation of Project Currawong: Final Report, Hobart: Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania, 101 pp.
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