HDR Supervision
I welcome applications from prospective research students interested in law and society topics, particularly those involving intellectual property law, cultural rights, the creative industries, or experimental or visual qualitative research methods. Possible topics could include copyright law and visual art; creative communities and copying norms; protocols and GLAM sector practices; studies of legal consciousness i.e. how creators think about law; legal projects that use art or practice-based methodologies.
PhD Supervision
Completed PhD Projects
- ‘Integrating Payment for Environmental Services into an Approach Informed by the Ecology of Law: A Case Study on Brazilian Waste Pickers’ (2022; Co-supervisor)
Current PhD Projects
- ‘Assessing the concept of Access and Benefit Sharing in the context of Convention on Biological Diversity through an empirical study of Indian law’ (student commenced in 2021; Primary supervisor)
- ‘Farmers’ Rights in Bangladesh: Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Regime’ (student commenced in 2020; Co-supervisor)
- ‘NSW JPs in the 21st Century: The Voice of NSW Justices of the Peace, Reflections on the Experience and Perceptions of that Role’ (student commenced in 2019; Co-supervisor)
Honours supervision
Completed Hons Projects
- ‘Deepfakes and Copyright Infringement in Australia’ (2022; Sole Supervisor)
- ‘We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know: A Critical Examination of the Orphan Works Problem in Australia’ (2022; Sole Supervisor)
- ‘The Dark Web Divide: The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021 as a Balancing Act’ (2021; Sole Supervisor)
- ‘Copyright Licence Trumps Artists’ Consent: Prefigurative Resistance to the Political Use of Music’ (2021; Sole Supervisor)