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Senior Lecturer
BA, LLB (Qld), DipLib (UNSW), MLP
Contact:
Room: C728 (Gardens Point campus)
Tel: (07) 313 82830
Fax: (07) 313 82121
Email: t.hutchinson@qut.edu.au
Terry Hutchinson is a Senior Lecturer within the Law School. Her specialist areas are legal research training and criminal law. In 2004 she visited Canada under the auspices of an International Council for Canadian Studies Program for International Research Linkages (PIRL) Grant. This research program, based around the general topic of Children in Detention, resulted in the several conference presentations and publication of papers such as T.Hutchinson and F.Martin, 'The Mental Health Implications for Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in' (2005) 1 (1) The Journal of Migration and Refugee Issues 1-24,T.Hutchinson and F.Martin, 'Australia's Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Mental Health of Refugee Children in Detention' (2004) 27 (6) International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 529-547, and the T.Hutchinson and R.Smandych, 'Juvenile Justice: New legislation reflecting new directions' (2005) 23(1) Australasian Canadian Studies 101-148.
Terry Hutchinson is also closely involved in the scholarship of teaching in regard to legal research skills at the postgraduate level. In 2006 she published the second edition of her text Researching and Writing in Law. She has also published recent articles such as T.Hutchinson, 'Where to Now? The 2002 Australian Research Skills Training Survey' (2004) 14 (2) Legal Education Review 63-91 and T.Hutchinson and N.Cuffe, 'Legal Research Project Management: Skills Extension for Upper Level Law Students' (2004) 38(2) The Law Teacher 159-181.
Terry Hutchinson chairs the Queensland Law Society's Equalising Opportunities in Law Committee, serves on the Executive of the Australasian Law Teachers' Association (ALTA) and is Editor in Chief of the Legal Education Review.
Units currently taught:
Research Interests:
- Legal research training for postgraduate students and the profession
- Research methodologies for lawyers
- Electronic legal research and the internet
- Children in Detention - both juvenile justice and refugee contexts
- Women in the legal profession
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