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Dr Jennifer Nielsen
BSc(Monash), LLB(Hons)(Monash), PhD(Melb)
Current Appointment:	Head of School, Law & Justice
Organisational Unit:	School of Law & Justice - Lismore
Telephone:	02 6620 3081
Facsimile:	02 6622 4167
Email:	jennifer.nielsen@scu.edu.au
Location:	L2.06
Campus:	Lismore
ePublications:	http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_nielsen/
Brief Biographical Details Jennifer Nielsen is a long-term member of the School of Law & Justice's academic team, is the School’s current Director of Research and Research Training by Higher Degrees, and is coordinating the Honours program in the Bachelor of Laws. She was Head of School from 2009-2011, and the School's LLB Course Coordinator from 2005-2007. She has taught a range of units within the undergraduate curriculum, and is an active researcher. She is active in community organisations in the Northern Rivers region in NSW, including the Nimbin Neighbourhood and Information Centre and the Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre. In 2001, she was awarded ‘Volunteer of the Year’ by the NSW Law & Justice Foundation for her long-term commitment to improving access to justice in the region, particularly for socially and economically marginalised people. Before joining Southern Cross in 1994, she practised as a solicitor in New South Wales and Victoria, and worked in academic positions with both the Monash Orientation Scheme for Aborigines and the Faculty of Law at Monash University. Current Teaching Employment and Industrial Relations Law Equal Employment Opportunity and Occupational Health and Safety Independent Legal Research Law Placement Units Taught Contract Law Welfare Law Race and the Law Human Rights Legal Research, Context Method & Perspective Clinical Legal Education Legal Project Legal Research & Writing Law Review Information Technology & the Law Affiliations Research Affiliate, Indigenous Studies Research Network, Queensland University of Technology (Faculty of Education), 2009-current; Profile at: Indigenous Studies Research Network Member of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, 2006-current; ACRAWSA Current Research Jennifer’s research follows two main themes. The first is discrimination and employment laws, with a particular focus on the application of critical race and critical whiteness studies to law. The second relates to social justice in rural, regional and remote communities. She is currently a project participant in an ALTC funded project that aims to develop strategies within the undergraduate law curriculum to prepare and attract lawyers and other legal professionals for legal careers in rural and regional Australia. Research Interests Critical race and whiteness studies, colonialism and postcolonialism Discrimination law, employment law and workplace issues Social justice and Indigenous peoples Social justice in rural, regional and remote communities
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