Dr Ann-Claire Larsen

PhD (Anthrop) UWA; LLM (Murdoch)
Senior Lecturer: Post-graduate Co-ordinator

Contact Information

Tel:

+61 (0)8 6304 5597

Fax:

+61 (0)8 6304 5406

Email:

a.larsen@ecu.edu.au

Campus:

Joondalup.

Room:

2.410

Availability:

By appointment.

Current Teaching:

Professional Ethics, Human Rights and Victimology.

Background

Employment History:

Dr Ann-Claire Larsen is a sociologist with a keen interest in international human rights law. In July 2002, she moved from Murdoch University’s School of Social Inquiry to the School of Law and Justice at Edith Cowan University. Her research interests focus on how services fail to meet the needs of the people they are set up to assist. In keeping with her research interests and expertise, Ann-Claire is keen to extend her network of industry partnerships to win grants and undertake industry-based research. This might take the form of investigating employee/management relations or how services impact on client populations.

Specialisation:

Human Rights, law reform.

Research and Publications

Research Interests:

Broad range of criminology and legal reform topics including human rights, restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence.

Current Research Areas:

Legal and ethical issues associated with hand-held computer systems; Ethical issues and police interviewing.

Recent Research Grants:

Larsen, A. Telehealth, e-health and e-medicine in Western Australia: legal and ethical issues associated with e-communication technologies in a community-based health service. $16,453, December 2006.

Larsen, A. & I. Froyland ‘Prison Services: Public perceptions of services for women prisoners’ ECU New Researcher Grant $4,691, 2003.

Larsen, A., A. Black & J. Duff. The Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage-Projects APA(I): ‘Country practices: analysing factors affecting the wellbeing of general practitioners and their families in rural and remote Western Australia’, $67,635 over three years with the Great Southern Division of General Practice, 2001.

Book Chapters:

Larsen, A with M. Giles, A. Tram Le, M. Allen, C. Lees. and L. Bennett ‘The role of education and training in prison to work transitions’ in Susan Dawe (Ed) (2007) in ‘Vocational education and training for adult prisoners and offenders in Australia: Research readings’ . Published by the Australian Government, NCVER.
ISBN:  978 1 921170 81 2 print; 978 1 921170 87 4 web.

Duff, J & A Larsen (2003) ‘Service Professionalism in Corporate Settings” in Moving Beyond Managerialism in Human Services L. Briskman & M. Muetzelfeldt (Eds) Electronic Book.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Larsen, A. (2008) ‘Punishment and rehabilitation in women’s prisons: views from the Western Australian Public’ to Sister-in-Law Journal. Vol 1.

Larsen, A. (2005) ‘In the public interest: autonomy and resistance to methods of standardising nurses’ advice and practices from a health call centre in Perth, Western Australia ‘ Nursing Inquiry  12: 135-143.

Larsen, A (2004) ‘Mobilising international human rights norms to reduce violence against Australian indigenous women: a way ahead’. Australian Journal of Human Rights Vol 10(2) 195-218.

Larsen, A., (2002) ‘Towards eliminating child labour: the power of the law’
Mots Pluriels 22, September http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP2202acl.html

Tonts, M. and A. Larsen (2002) ‘Rural disadvantage in Australia: a human rights perspective’ Geography, 87(2), 132-141.

Larsen, A. and A. Petersen, (2001)‘Rethinking responses to ‘domestic violence’ in Australian Indigenous communities’ The Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 23(2): 1-14.

Larsen, A. (1999) 'Governing families with young children through discipline', Journal of Sociology, Nov., 35, No. 3: 279-296.  

Conference Papers:

Larsen, A Mobilising United Nations’ principles to promote Restorative Justice: a attempt to restore justice following improper conduct by police in Western Australia Paper presented at the  ‘Building restorative justice in Europe. Cooperation between the public, policy makers, practitioners and researchers’ conference in 17-19 April 2008, Verona, Italy.

Larsen, A. with L. Gabelich ‘Ethics Training at the WA Police Academy: The Right Way to Teach the Right Thing to Do’ paper presented at the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics at RMIT, Melbourne, June 2007. Refereed conference paper published Nov 2007.

Larsen, A presented a paper entitled 'In the public interest: Autonomy and Resistance to Methods of Standardising Nurses' Advice and Practices from a Health Call Centre in Perth, Western Australia’. The Australian Sociological Association Conference held at UWA in December 2006.

Larsen, A presented a paper with Julie Manville 'Human Rights or Protection: The West Australian Prostitution Control Bill 2002'. The Australian Sociological Association Conference held at UWA in December 2006.

Larsen, A. ‘Mobilising international human rights norms to reduce violence against Australian indigenous women: a way ahead’. ANZSOC Wellington NZ 9th-11th Feb.(2005)

Other information:

Supervising post-graduate topics that include:
Master of Criminal Justice

Incarcerating Indigenous people of the Wongatha Lands in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia: indigenous leaders’ perspectives.

Detainees, amphetamine type substances and the Western Australian justice system.

The whistleblower in the workplace: the personal characteristics of individuals who have blown the whistle in one Australian context.

Understanding Western Australian police officers’ decisions when encountering people with mental illnesses.

Police oversighting agencies: a model analytical tool for comparative evaluations.

PhD
Key success factors for managing adverse medical events in Western Australia.

How has the Australian Government and Legislature responded legally and politically to the threat of terrorism? (Associate supervisor).