Dr. Angela Dwyer is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, at the Queensland University of Technology. Since joining the School in 2007, Angela has been a recipient of four Vice Chancellor’s Performance Fund awards, three for excellence in teaching in 2007 and 2008, and one for excellence in research in 2010. She is an author of the book Sex, Crime, and Morality with Hayes and Carpenter, and assisted with convening Queering Paradigms II, the second international queer studies conference in Brisbane at QUT.
Her current research interests are focused on how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender young people experience policing, and the broader impact of sexuality and gender diversity on criminal justice processes. She is passionate about the pathologisation and demonisation of young people in the media and public culture, and her work seeks to overturn dominant thinking about young people as a social, criminal problem. Angela’s doctoral thesis, completed in 2006, was informed by this, and argued for rethinking the relationship between fashion models and young girls as a pedagogical relationship (where embodied knowledge is transmitted) rather than a pathological relationship.
Angela has served as General Member of the The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Executive Committee for 2009-2010 and was Editor of the TASAWeb (http://www.tasa.org.au). She has established a scholarship for Sociologists Outside Academe to maximise the participation of non-academic sociologists with TASA. Prior to this, she was the elected postgraduate member for this committee. As well as making issues of postgraduate members known to the committee, she has also convened three postgraduate workshops for the Annual TASA Conference. Angela is a fully-accredited supervisor and is available to supervise research in any of her current research areas and other areas of interest listed below.
Current Research
- Sexualities and Policing Experiences
- Sexualities, Schooling and Human Rights
Research Areas
- Sexualities and Policing Experiences
- Sexualities, Schooling and Human Rights
- Sex and Crime
- Youthful Identities, Criminality and Public Space
- Young People and Popular Culture
- Sociology of Deviance/Criminology
- Qualitative Research Methodologies
This information has been contributed by Dr Angela Dwyer.
