Adjunct Professor
Sara Davies
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
Dr Sara Davies is a QUT Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. Dr Davies also holds the following roles:- Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
- Program Director of the Prevention of Mass Atrocities Program in the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland.
- Co-Program Leader of International Law and Global Governance Research Program, Faculty of Law
- Co-Stream Leader of Global Health and Regulation Stream in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research.
Dr Davies currently holds two ARC grants - Future Fellowship and Discovery Project - both awarded in late 2013:
- The ARC Future Fellow project Security and Health Diplomacy: A Necessary Partnership?, explores the factors which determine whether the portrayal of international health issues as security threats succeed or fail in inspiring cooperative policy and investment, focusing on five distinct global health programmes (GOARN, GAVI Alliance, Global Fund, Framework for Tobacco Control and Safe Motherhood Initiative).
- The ARC Discovery Project, Preventing Mass Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Asia Pacific, led by Dr Davies and Professor Jacqui True, Monash University, builds on her previous work on the prevention of mass atrocities. This project seeks to identify the factors associated with heightened risk of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV), especially the relationship between endemic violence against women and extreme cases of SGBV in the Asia-Pacific region.
Dr Davies' two previous ARC Discovery Projects explored regional cooperation concerning infectious disease control in South East Asia (this project included the award of an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2013), and early warning strategies to prevent mass atrocities (awarded with co-CI Professor Alex Bellamy, Griffith University, 2009-2012). Dr Davies has written two single authored books, and has a new book published with Johns Hopkins University Press (co-authored with Adam Kamradt-Scott and Simon Rushton) Disease Diplomacy. She has edited six books; and is author of over 25 articles in internationally recognised journals. She is the co-founder and co-editor of quarterly issued journal Global Responsibility to Protect; and co-founder of the blog, Protection Gateway.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Associate Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Keywords
Australian refugee law, International refugee law, Southeast Asia politics, human rights, infectious disease and security, international law
Research field
Political Science, Applied Ethics, Law
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
- Research Committee Member, Australian Institute for International Affairs
- Executive Committee Member, Global Health Section, International Studies Association
Teaching
- Level 3 Accredited Supervisor at QUT.
Dr Davies welcomes students to approach her for supervision in the following areas:
- Global Health Governance
- International Health Regulations
- Global Health Security
- Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Armed Conflict
- Responsibility to Protect
- Prevention of Mass Atrocities
- International Refugee Law
- International Relations
- Diplomacy
- Security Studies
- Global Governance
Experience
- The Centre was awarded a second three-year grant from Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2013-2015). The Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (AP R2P) is the only regional centre of its kind specifically dedicated to advancing the Responsibility to Protect principle through research and policy dialogue.
- The Centre works with government and civil society partners in the Asia Pacific to expand and deepen our research, training and policy engagement on the Responsibility to Protect.
- As Program Leader, Sara has organized a number of workshops and training events within the Centre and published reports on engagement on Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security within Asia Pacific region.
- She also co-edits the Global Responsibility to Protect journal (Martinus Nijhoff), which is Scopus Indexed.
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Sara, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Security and Health Diplomacy: A Necessary Partnership?
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- FT130101040
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Securitization; Global Health Governance; Diplomacy
- Title
- Preventing Mass Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Conflict and Non-Conflict Affected Countries
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP140101129
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Title
- Containing H5N1: The Role of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and East Asian States
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0878792
- Start year
- 2008
- Keywords
- International Organisation; World Health Organisation; East Asia; Global Health Governance; International Relations; International Cooperation
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.