Dr Irene D. Froyland

DipEd UWA, MA (Psych) UWA, PhD (Crim) SFU
Adjunct Associate Professor (Sellenger Centre)

Contact Information

Email:

i.froyland@ecu.edu.au

Background

Employment History:

Irene is one of the longest standing members of ECU, and has experience in secondary teaching, teacher education, psychology and criminology. She has promoted strong links with those responsible for the administration of justice, and courses have been developed in conjunction with the Police, Justice personnel (both state and private) and the aviation and travel security industries.

Irene’s research activities are aimed at developing that body of knowledge necessary for the professionalisation of law enforcement and the administration of justice at local, national and international levels. She is particularly committed to doing this in partnership with members of those occupations. Internationally she works with police and aviation security organisations in the development of knowledge and personnel.

Irene chairs the State Government “Safer WA Funding Advisory Group” and is a member of Strategic Planning and higher level selection committees for WAPS and DOJ. She has been consulted by Royal Commission into WA Police on the development of their research instruments.

Research and Publications

Research Interest:

Police, Justice, aviation security, interpersonal communication, Law enforcement and rights.

Current Research Area:

Counter-terrorism and individual rights, Women in custody, women in policing, restorative justice, domestic violence.

Recent Research Grants:

Irene has been a partner in six ARC SPIRT (Linkage) grants. The most recent is
2001-2003. Australian Research Council Strategic Partnership with Industry-Research and Training Scheme Grant, Project total $136,000 (with Stratton & Hall of Murdoch University)

Topic: Restorative Justice as an Alternative to Traditional Criminal Justice Sanctioning

Others have been
2001. ECU Industry Collaboration Grant, project Total $80,000 (ECU plus Department of Justice), (Alan, Drake & Froyland) Bail Decision Making

1996 – 1997. ARC project total $181,650 (with McMurray and Bell) Post-Separation Violence

1994 – 1995. ARC project total $91,000 (with Bell and Jongeling) Stress & Absenteeism in Policing

1993 – 1994. ARC project total $96,000 (with Skeffington and Waugh Women in Policing.

1993. Australian Research Council Infrastructure Grant for $50,000.

Research Recognition:

2000. Award for Excellence: Sybe Jongeling Prize for Outstanding Dedication to Research; by the Post-Graduate and Honours Student Association of ECU.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Kebbell, M., Johnson, S., Froyland, I., & Ainsworth, M. (2002). The influence of belief that a car crashed on witnesses’ estimates of civilian and police car speed. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and applied Vol. 136, No 6, 597-607.

Froyland, I., & O’Callaghan, K. (2000). Challenges for aviation security: The people issue. Security World, March 2000.

McMurray, A., Froyland, I. Bell, D. & Curnow, D. (2000). Post-Separation Violence: The Male Perspective. Journal of Family Studies Vol. 6, No 1, 1322-9400

Reports and Technical Papers

Cant, R., Downie, R., Fisher, C., Henry, P., & Froyland, I. (2002). Evaluation of Perpetrator Programs for Mandated and voluntary participants in Western Australia. Centre for Research on Women.

Conference Papers in Proceeding:

Froyland, I., O’Callaghan, K. & Alzier, E. (2002). Does Robert Peel’s message for police hold true for aviation security? Proceedings of the 2002 AVSEC Conference, Singapore, SATS.