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QUT Law and Justice pursues a number of collaborative research relationships, both within the University and beyond.
QUT Institutes
The QUT has a number of multi-disciplinary research institutes which provide research solutions to real-world problems. We collaborate with QUT institutes on the following topics:
- Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (which hosts the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation)
- Digital liberty (such as copyright infringement, internet and e-commerce law)
- Open Access to Knowledge Law Project (OAK Law)
- Creative commons and open content licensing
- Independent music
- Institute for Sustainable Resources
- Climate change laws
- Legal regime for a sustainable carbon cycle
- Legal study of the capture and storage of carbon dioxide
- Information Security Institute
- E-business and e-government
- Governance, law and policy
Industry and government partners
We hold or have recently held ARC Linkage grants with the following industry and government partners:
- Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
- NSW Office of the Public Guardian
- Civil and Administrative Tribunal (Queensland and Victoria)
- Office of the Public Advocate (Queensland and Victoria)
- Queensland Health Scientific Services
- Queensland Police
- State Coroner’s Office
- Queensland Teachers’ Union
The following bodies have funded research undertaken by QUT Law and Justice:
- Queensland Department of Public Works
- Australian Responsibility to Protect Fund
- Consumer Advocacy Panel
- Queensland Law Reform Commission
- Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General
- Queensland Law Society
- AusAID
- Queensland Premier’s Crime and Research Unit
- Australia-India Strategic Research Fund
- Department of Environment and Resource Management
- The National Financial Services Federation Limited
- Australian Government Productivity Commission
The Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law
QUT is a partner in and collaborates with the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL). IEGL was established as a joint initiative of the United Nations University (UNU), Griffith University and QUT Law and Justice in association with Australian National University (ANU).
The Institute’s research includes cross-disciplinary theory and empirical study that brings together ethics and law with social sciences including:
- international relations
- political science
- economics
- sociology
- criminology.
Cambia
Cambia is an independent non-profit institute founded in 1989 by Professor Richard Jefferson, a highly regarded life scientist with links to QUT Law and Justice. The purpose of Cambia is to create new technologies, tools and paradigms to promote change and enable innovation. One of Cambia’s projects is known as ‘Patent Lens’, which is a free public resource for patent system navigation worldwide. Our Executive Dean, Professor the Hon. Michael Lavarch, is a member of the Cambia Board.
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