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Dr Tara Renae McGee - School of Justice |
LecturerBA (Hons), Grad Cert (App Soc Res), PhD
Contact:Room: X519 (Gardens Point campus) Tara joined the School of Justice as a Lecturer in 2005. She has previously worked as a Research Officer at the former Criminal Justice Commission 1997-2000 and has also held research and teaching positions at The University of Queensland. Tara continues as the Bachelor of Justice Honours coordinator in 2008, and is a member of the QUT University Human Research Ethics Committee. Her PhD research focused on persistence and desistence of antisocial behaviour across childhood and adolescence and used data from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy (MUSP): http://www.ansoc.uq.edu.au/research/musp More recent research extends her PhD findings to examine and compare the outcomes of individuals exhibiting ‘life-course-persistent’ and ‘adolescent-limited’ antisocial behaviour, now that they have reached early adulthood: 21 years of age. Tara has also been working with Rebecca Wickes (UQ), Jake Najman (UQ), and William Bor (Mater Hospital) to examine individual antisocial behaviour in the context of family and neighbourhood factors. This research was funded in 2008 by the Australian Criminology Research Council. In 2007-08, Tara was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology. Her ongoing work with Prof David Farrington examines adult-onset offending in the Cambridge Study of Delinquent Development (CSDD). During her time in Cambridge, Tara was also a visiting scholar at Wolfson College. Tara is also a member of ARACY’s (Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth) 2008-09 New Investigator Network (NIN). The Network was designed to build the capacity of early career researchers to make best use of complex longitudinal data (eg the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children), to work across disciplines, and to transfer knowledge on child and youth health, development and wellbeing into policy and practice. Tara has also co-edited a volume on the history of Australian sociology with John Germov from The University of Newcastle, published by Melbourne University Press in 2005. The book includes papers from a History panel held during the The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) 2003 Conference. In addition, key historical papers and chapters that document the establishment of the discipline in Australia have been included. Some contemporary reflections were also commissioned from authors in the fields of history and sociology. Given the diversity of views reflected by the various contributors, the book is titled Histories of Australian Sociology. Her work in this field is ongoing. Tara also participates in the Executive activities of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), where she was the TASA Executive Officer 2001-2004 and is a TASA Executive Committee Member in 2005-2008. Previously she has focused on addressing the needs of postgraduate members and convened the TASA Postgraduate Workshop as a pre-conference event at the annual TASA conference. She is currently a general member of the Executive and the editor of the TASA website: http://www.tasa.org.au Tara is also a member of the Communications sub-committee of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Executive Committee. Research interests:
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Postgraduate supervison:Tara is happy to discuss the possibility of supervision with students who share her research interests. A list of her current students appears below:
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