Dr Alejandra Zuluaga recently completed her PhD with ARCSHS and the GLaD program
GLaD researcher Alejandra Zuluaga has successfully completed her PhD in human rights and drug policy. Her thesis, ‘Coca, gender and the ontopolitics of human rights
GLaD researcher Alejandra Zuluaga has successfully completed her PhD in human rights and drug policy. Her thesis, ‘Coca, gender and the ontopolitics of human rights
Call for papers and presentations for Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body: a seminar held as a satellite event alongside the Contemporary Drug Problems conference.
In December, GLaD researchers attended the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia conference at the University of Hong Kong.
GLaD Researcher Dr Sean Mulcahy was appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Law, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Sussex
The Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Committee has recently conducted an inquiry into workplace drug testing in Victoria.
Recently, the GLaD team have led or contributed to several submissions to law reform, human rights, and parliamentary inquiries.
On this year’s Human Rights Day, we are delighted to announce that our work has been awarded the Andrea Durbach Prize for Human Rights Scholarship.
Each year, on the 31st of August, people around the world come together to mark International Overdose Awareness Day. Initiated in 2001 by Melburnian Sally J Finn, International Overdose Awareness Day is an opportunity to pause, grieve, memorialise lives lost, and to stimulate frank conversations about overdose and other drug-related harms and how to prevent them.
We are delighted to introduce you to a new research program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS).
Australia has long been a leader in critical alcohol and other drug (AOD) scholarship. Much of this work draws on feminist theory, including feminist science studies, to identify and examine ideas about agency and materiality in drug policy and practice. Often, this work also prioritises issues specific to gender, such as how the law conceptualises links between drugs and family violence, or how it understands the relationship between alcohol and sexual assault.