Project Leaders: Dr Romy Winter, Christina Hudson, Dr Caroline Spiranovic, Dr Sonya Stanford, Associate Professor Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, Dr Kate Cashman, Dr Kimberley Norris
Baptcare LTD
Funding: Baptcare LTD (2022)
This project will involve an evaluation of Baptcare's implementation of the Caring Dads and Mothers in Mind programs in Tasmania to prevent family violence. The evaluation will comprise a desktop analysis of deidentified client data and a system wide mapping of family violence service provision in Tasmania.
Project Leaders: Dr Caroline Spiranovic, Dr Kimberley Norris, Dr Kate Cashman, Dr Sonya Stanford, Dr Romy Winter, Associate Professor Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, Professor Nicole Asquith
Sexual Assault Support Service (SASS)
Funding: Sexual Assault Support Service Inc. (2021)
The UTAS STOP Violence network (Standing Together on Preventing Violence) in partnership with SASS in Tasmania will obtain local data about community and stakeholder views on sexual violence in Southern Tasmania, including: the types of sexual violence occurring in Tasmania, the support services available and what improvements can be made to these services.
The City of Launceston has identified a number of issues associated with repeat vandalism in the Northern Suburbs which create a range of negative consequences for community members and council departments. Council has approached the Violence and Abuse Research Unit (VARU) within TILES to provide information and understandings to enable long term behaviour change and also examples of place-based strategies to reduce vandalism.
Project Team: Dr Romy Winter; Dr Kimberley Norris, Dr Mandy Matthewson, Dr Ron Frey and Dr Peter Lucas.
Funding: Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management (Tasmania), (2019-2020)
This project was an evaluation of the full trial of Project Vigilance, an initiative involving the bilateral electronic monitoring of family violence offenders by Tasmania Police.
Team Members: Professor Roberta Julian and Dr Danielle Campbell
Funding: Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management (2018-2020)
The project used a consultative approach (to build rapport and gain feedback on methodology) to document the key issues influencing motivation, retention, and sustainability of emergency response (ER) volunteers in Tasmania.
Co-Lead Researchers: Prof Roberta Julian and Dr Romy Winter (TILES, VARU)
Senior Researchers: Dr Danielle Campbell (TILES) and Dr Gwynn MacCarrick (School of Social Sciences)
Funding: Migrant Resource Centre (Southern Tas) (2019-2020)
Completed: 2020 (confidential report)
The Mothers Circle was a tailored Australian response to the growing recognition of the role of mothers in Counter Violent Extremism (CVE), piloted by the Migrant Resource Centre (MRC) in Hobart and Launceston. The MRC was subcontracted by DPFEM (funding from Department of Home Affairs) to develop curriculum and materials which will be used to educate and empower women in target communities to recognise and respond to early signs of problem behaviour and radicalisation.
This project was undertaken in collaboration with University of the South Pacific. It explored the perspectives of police officers and community members in Polynesian contexts on the policing of family violence.
Chief Investigators: Dr Katrina Clifford and Professor Stefan Greuter, Deakin University
In collaboration with: Professor Roberta Julian (TILES)
Funding: Deakin University (2019)
The project explored and piloted the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as an innovative and interactive training tool for Australian crime scene investigators (CSI) and will evaluate its effectiveness compared to traditional forensic science education and training models and methods.
The project had five key objectives: 1) To conduct a survey to document the experiences of LGBTIQ Tasmanians with Tasmania Police; 2) To conduct interviews with LGBTIQ Tasmanians about their experiences with Tasmania Police; 3) To conduct interviews with Tasmania Police personnel to document how Tasmania Police interact with LGBTIQ Tasmanians, including the experiences of LGBTIQ officers’ interactions with the Tasmanian LGBTIQ community; 4) To document the key issues impacting the relationship between LGBTIQ Tasmanians and Tasmania Police; and 5) To inform police and LGBTIQ community policy and practice with data about how best to secure the safety of LGBTIQ Tasmanians.
Research Team: Dr Romy Winter, Dr Kimberley Norris, Dr Mandy Matthewson, Dr Peter Lucas & Dr Ron Frey
Research Assistant: Ms Ebba Herrlander Birgerson
Funding: Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management (Tasmania)
Completed: 2018
The project involved conducting an interim evaluation of "Project Vigilance', an initiative involving the electronic monitoring of family violence offenders by Tasmania Police.
Funding: Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management (Tasmania)
Completed: 2018
This project involved working with Tasmania Police to develop a risk assessment framework for addressing family violence in the context of the newly established inter-agency Safe Families Coordination Unit (SFCU).
The project had two main purposes: (1) to obtain police investigators and interpreters perspectives on effective rapport development in interpreter-assisted investigative interviews; and (2) to scope out the issues and identify further research questions concerning interpreter-assisted investigative interviews.
Research Team: Doherty BT; Nash RE; de Graaff B; Julian RD; Palmer AJ
Funding: Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania
Completed: 2018
The project trialled a new model of coordinated care for clients with complex needs. It involved three community service organisations, Australian Red Cross, Mission Australia and Baptcare employing the lead service where coordinators provide the service to a maximum of 30 Tasmanians with multiple service needs. The evaluation aimed to test if this model of coordination leads to better health and wellbeing outcomes for the clients and more efficient and cost effective service delivery.
Research Team: Associate Professor Angela Dwyer and J K Thomas
Funding: University of Tasmania
Completed: 2018
The pilot research main question was: are flexi schools being used to funnel gender variant and sexuality diverse young people away from mainstream schools; what leads to their exclusion from mainstream schools; and how are they involved criminal justice systems? The study was also going to develop and trial a survey of flexi school staff and students, to be deployed in a national research project.
Research Team: Bartkowiak-Theron IMF; Moltow DT; Julian RD; Winter RE; Thoars C; West SG
Funding: University of Tasmania
Completed: 2018
This case study (the interaction of police with young people) sought to analyse whether any negative bias or attitudes are transferred to recruits during their training, how police educators understand the idea of young peoples engagement in education, and any benefit this may have on resilience and avoidance of criminal / delinquent careers, and whether the above understanding is conveyed to recruits during their training.
Research Team: Prof E Stratford, Prof Roberta Julian (TILES)
Funding: University of Tasmania
Completed: 2018
Multiple studies show that young people subjected to abuse, violence, and neglect tend to develop behaviours harmful to themselves and others, and experience intergenerational cycles of disadvantage and heightened chances of incarceration. It is an urgent priority to find more effective ways to short-circuit these cycles. Therefore, in this project we asked what are the effects of child maltreatment for the intergenerational transmission of victimization and offending, educational attainment, and women’s incarceration?
Research Team: Dr Kimberley Norris, Dr Mandy Matthewson, Professor Roberta Julian & Dr Romy Winter
Funding: Department of Justice Tasmania
Completed: 2018
This project aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Family Violence Offender Intervention Program (FVOIP) in reducing family violence recidivism and identify factors predictive of family violence recidivism.
The aims were to conduct fieldwork (in all Australia and New Zealand jurisdictions) to help ground upcoming publications and strengthen three competitive grant applications (in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Western Sydney, the Australian Institute of Police Management, the Australian and New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency and community support services).
Chief Investigators: Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Theron, Professor Roberta Julian and Dr Sally Kelty
Associated Researcher: Dr Loene Howes
Funding: Tasmanian Office for Children
Completed: 2018
The Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies was engaged to undertake an evidence based evaluation of the Inter Agency Support Teams Plus (IAST+) project.
Team Members: Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Theron, Professor Roberta Julian and Dr Romy Winter
Funding: University of Tasmania Group Career Development Scholarship
Completed: 2017
In collaboration with the Tasmanian Institute for Law Enforcement Studies (TILES), the team's objective was to develop online units and courses around emergency management, law enforcement and public health, and policing vulnerability to be ready for delivery in semester two 2017. This scholarship was supported by the School of Social Sciences which recognizes the strategic opportunity to consolidate and expand its capacity in Police Studies, new jurisdictions and across Emergency Management.
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Roberta Julian
Senior Researcher: Dr Sally Kelty
Research Assistant: Ms Loene Howes
Funding: Department of Justice, Tasmania
Completed: 2016 (confidential report)
The project's evaluation team worked on a Desk-top Review of existing programs that may be suitable or adaptable for 18 - 25 year olds who commit motor vehicle related offences.
Research Team: Dr TA Remenyi; Dr R Harris; Dr CJ White; Dr SP Corney; Professor NL Bindoff; Dr SF Kelty; Ms LJ Denny; AssocProf RD Julian; Dr K Norris; Dr JA Jabour
Funding: Department of Police and Emergency Management [TAS]: Grant-Emergency Volunteer Fund; Tasmania Fire Service; Tasmanian Ambulance Service
This project involved flow charting the inter-agency communication and information sharing from crime scene to pre-trial phase of adult and child sexual assaults between police, child protection agencies, forensic science, lawyers, forensic physicians and sexual assault agencies and NGOS.
Chief Investigators: Dr SF Kelty; Associate Prof RD Julian
Researcher: Ms L Howes
Funding: Australian Federal Police
Completed: 2014 (confidential report)
The purpose of this project was to develop a robust multi-source recruitment process based upon the identification of the seven key attributes of top-performing CSEs
Research Team: Prof Rick Sarre (University of South Australia), Dr Emma Rowden (University of Western Sydney) and Ms Gillian Shaw (Bowchung Consulting)
Funding: South Australian Attorney-General's Department
The project involved research on how women have changed criminal justice since the 1970s. There is a whole generation of women who have been actively engaged - as academics, advocates and practitioners in reforms of the criminal justice system over the past 40 years in Australia.
Chief Investigators: Dr SF Kelty and Associate Prof RD Julian
Associated Researchers: Alastair Ross (NIFS), Assoc Prof David Wells (Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, Monash University), Hon. Frank Vincent AO QC, Kate Cashman (PhD Candidate, UTAS) and Heidi Gordon (PhD Candidate, UTAS)
Funding: National Institute of Forensic Science
Completed: 2013
The project was a joint venture between Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA), National Institute of Forensic Science (NIFS) and the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies (TILES).
See also the 'Dismantling the Justice Silos: Mapping the interactions between forensic science, medicine and law in adult and child sexual assault cases'. Project completed in 2016.
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Roberta Julian
Chief Research Investigators: Prof Claude Roux (UTS), Prof James Robertson (University of Canberra), Prof Rob White (UTAS) and Dr Hugh Sibly (UTAS)
Partner Investigators: Alastair Ross (VicPol), Robert Hayes (VicPol), Julian Slater (AFP), Anna Davey (NIFS) and Prof Pierre Margot (University of Lausanne)
Research Team: Dr Sally Kelty (UTAS), Peter Woodman (VicPol and PhD Candidate, UTAS) and Kate Cashman (PhD Candidate, UTAS)
Funding: ARC Linkage Funded Project
Completed: 2013
This five-year investigation was exploring where and how forensic services can add value to police investigations, court trials and just outcomes while ensuring the efficient use of available resources. This project was funded by the Australian Research Council and had a number of industry partners, Victoria Police (VicPol), Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the National Institute of Forensic Science (NIFS).
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Roberta Julian
Funding: Save the Children Australia
Completed: 2012
Report: Julian, R and Krawec-Wheaton, A and Winter, R, Evaluation of 'Transition from Remand and Detention' Project, Save the Children Australia, 21 June 2012.
Chief Investigators: Associate Professor RD Julian and Dr V Goodwin
Funding: Australian Institute of Criminology
Completed: 2010
The aim of the study was to explore the extent to which crime and related social problems (e.g. chronic dependence on social security, poor health, transience, truancy, neglect, poverty) are concentrated in Tasmanian families, with a view to identifying ways to break the cycle of inter-generational crime and better respond to the needs of families with multiple problems.
The TILES Briefing Paper No. 8 (PDF 4.4MB) presents preliminary findings from research examining the extent to which offending and related social problems are concentrated in six Tasmanian families.
Chief Investigators: Professor Jenny Fleming & Dr Alison Wakefield (City University, London)
Funding: British Academy and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Completed: 2009
A UK workshop was held in London in June 2009 and in Australia (Hobart) in December 2009.
A report based on the findings from the British Crime Survey in 2000 identified as a key area for improvement the way in which members of the public who contact the police are treated, noting complaints of 'poor response times, lack of police interest, failure to keep them informed and poor demeanour'. Research evidence concerning the type of policing that citizens wish to see demonstrates a demand for a proactive, non-threatening, neighbourhood-oriented approach to policing. The respective governments of Britain, Australia and New Zealand are now investing more heavily than ever in measures to address such expectations.
Chief Investigators: Associate Professor Roberta Julian & Ms Jacqueline Prichard
Funding: Migrant Resource Centre (Southern Tasmania) Inc
Completed: 2009 (confidential report)
The primary goal of the project was to increase the capacity for prevention, intervention and postvention management of suicide-related crises in refugee and other vulnerable migrant communities and associated support services in Tasmania.
Research Team: Dr CJ Hughes; Assoc Prof RD Julian; Mr M Richman
Funding: Foundation for Alcohol Research & Education Ltd
Completed: 2008
TILES and the University Department of Rural Health (UDRH) conducted the first Australian trial of the Social Norms approach to substance abuse prevention in Tasmania. TILES and UDRH were awarded nearly $500,000, from the Foundation for Alcohol Research & Education, to conduct trials in Huonville and on the West Coast of Tasmania.
Campbell DM (2011) PhD Thesis: Community policing and refugee settlement in Regional Australia: A case study Tasmania, available on UTAS Library Open Repository.
Chief Investigators: Associate Professor Roberta Julian, Dr Raimondo Bruno
Researcher: Ms Romy Winter
Funding: Mission Australia
Completed: 2008
The Illicit Drug Diversion Initiative aimed to divert minor drug offenders from the criminal justice system and into compulsory assessment, treatment and/or education.
Chief Investigators: Assoc Prof RD Julian; Mr P Southgate; Insp M Richman
Funding: Department of Police and Emergency Management, Tasmania
Completed: 2007 (confidential report)
The research traced the development of Operational Performance Review (OPR) and similar management systems in the police service, and the paper concluded with suggestions for how to achieve a better understanding of the ways OPR systems actually work.
Associated Investigators: Assoc Prof PM Allen; Dr R Hall
Funding: University of Tasmania
Completed: 2006
This pilot project aimed to identify key social, cultural and organisational factors that affected the work of Australian forensic police and scientists who were deployed in Bali as part of the Disaster Victim Identification team. While the research focused on members of Tasmania Police it also involved interviews with members of the Australian Federal Police and Indonesian Police, analysis of media reports on Australian-Indonesian police relations, and an organisational analysis of the two police services.
Funding: Office of the State Service Commissioner (OSSC)
Completed: 2006
TILES was contracted to provide advice to the Tasmanian OSSC on the development and implementation of a State Service Employee Survey. The aim of the survey was to determine the extent to which State Service employees believe that the work practices and culture that prevail in their workplace reflect a commitment to the State Service Principles.
Research Team: Keith Jacobs (University of Tasmania); Terry Burke (Swinburne University of Technology); Meredith Green (Edith Cowan University); Sherry Saggers (Edith Cowan University); Ron Mason (University of Tasmania) & Angela Barclay (Swinburne University of Technology)
Funding: National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund
Chief Investigators: Dr HR Hall; Professor AJ Kellow; Professor RD White; Dr MJ Alessandrini; Mr M Richman
Funding: Department of Health and Ageing: Grant-National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund; Department of Police and Emergency Management, Tasmania
Completed: 2006
This project systematically assessed the implementation and management of drug diversion strategies in law enforcement agencies in Victoria,Tasmania and South Australia. It was an innovative project that drew on the expertise of researchers in the fields of policy studies, administrative law, criminology, police studies and public sector management. It also drew on the expertise of police practitioners.
Chief Investigators: Dr HR Hall; Assoc Prof B He; Dr LK Kriwoken
Funding: University of Tasmania
Completed: 2006
This project examined local implementation of Ramsar Convention obligations in China and Australia. It aimed to identify patterns of local governance and the impact these have on the implementation of, and compliance with, convention obligations. Factors facilitating and impeding compliance were identified. The project helped to fill a significant gap in understanding grassroots implementation of international environmental agreements.
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Roberta Julian
Project Team: Ms P Musket; Insp M Richman
Funding: Department of Police and Emergency Management, Tasmania
Completed: 2005 (confidential report)
Project Currawong was an early intervention and diversionary program aimed at addressing risk while building and enhancing protective factors for young people deemed to be 'at risk' and/or for young offenders. The evaluation research was evidence-based and aimed to identify best-practice in wilderness-based youth diversionary programs.
Chief Investigators: Assoc Prof RD Julian; Dr MJ Alessandrini
Funding: Department of Police and Emergency Management, Tasmania
Completed: 2005
The structure of U-Turn allowed for significant comparative analysis between those in a residential program and those who were not. It is known that whether one remains in, or is removed from, one’s usual environment can have a major impact on the success of programs aimed at behavioural change. This addition to the U-Turn Project provided an exciting opportunity to investigate these wider environmental and social factors. The housing initiative constituted a distinct project in its own right and allowed for the evaluation of the impact of a range of social factors that would not otherwise be possible without the residential component.
Chief Investigators: Associate Professor Roberta Julian and Ms Rosmarie Winter
Academic Panel: Professor Aynsley Kellow, Associate Professor Lorraine Mazerolle, Dr Jane Shakespeare-Finch, Dr Barbara Baird; Ms Clair Andersen; Mr Rick Snell
Funding: Department of Police and Emergency Management (DPEM)
Completed: 2005 (confidential report)
The Safe at Home project was an innovative, whole of Government approach developed to lesson the occurrence and impact of family violence in Tasmania. It involved legislative change and new approaches to assessing risk and enhancing the safety of the victims of family violence, including children. Recommendations were made on the current tool to inform future use and training needs.
Chief Investigators: Dr Megan Alessandrini; Professor Ian Buchanan (Charles Darwin University)
TILES Research / Survey: Associate Professor Roberta Julian
Funding: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Completed: 2003
TILES conducted a mass survey of blood donors and non-donors for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) as part of the ARC funded project 'Reading the Social Future of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service' (2003-2006). The survey, which had been distributed to a national sample of approximately 30,000 people, aimed to establish how blood donation was linked to lifestyles and communities, and to find out who donated blood and why. The ARCBS anticipated that the findings from this research would enable them to increase the numbers of blood donors in Australia. This project demonstrated that TILES has the capacity to undertake large scale survey research on a national level.
