Dr Zoe Staines
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Social Science
+61 7 334 67350
Dr Zoe Staines is a Research Fellow at the School of Social Science, University of Queensland. She has previously held research and policy positions in the Queensland Government, academia and in the not-for-profit sector, most recently working as a Researcher, Senior Policy Officer and Manager of Evaluation at an Indigenous non-government organisation. Zoe has a keen research interest in social policy, Indigenous governance, and evaluation. She holds degrees, including a PhD, in criminology.
Publications
Book Chapters
Marston, Greg and Staines, Zoe (2019). Social policy. In Peter Chen, Nicholas Barry, John Butcher, David Clune, Ian Cook, Adele Garnier, Yvonne Haigh, Sara C. Motta and Marija Taflaga (Ed.), Australian politics and policy Senior edition ed. (pp. 687-706) Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press. doi:10.30722/sup.9781743326671
Marston, Greg and Staines, Zoe (2019). Social policy. In Chen, Peter, Barry, Nicholas, Butcher, John, Clune, David, Cook, Ian, Garnier, Adele, Haigh, Yvonne, Motta, Sara and Taflaga, Marija (Ed.), Australian politics and policy Junior edition ed. (pp. 547-559) Sydney, NSW Australia: Sydney University Press.
Journal Articles
Staines, Zoe and Scott, John (2019) Crime and colonisation in Australia’s Torres Strait Islands. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, . doi:10.1177/0004865819869049
Lauchs, Mark and Staines, Zoe (2019) An analysis of outlaw motorcycle gang crime: are bikers organised criminals?. Global Crime, . doi:10.1080/17440572.2019.1583107
Staines, Zoe and Moran, Mark (2019) Complexity and hybrid effects in the delivery and evaluation of youth programs in a remote Indigenous community. Australian Journal of Public Administration, . doi:10.1111/1467-8500.12371
Staines, Zoe (2019) Australia’s remote workfare policy: rhetoric versus reality of ‘community’ empowerment. Critical Social Policy, .
Staines, Zoe (2018) Ground-level impacts of remote employment policy: social disadvantage under the Community Development Programme. Journal of Australian Political Economy, 82: 107-132.
Staines, Zoe and Jose, Fiona (2018) Overcoming social disadvantage by investing in Indigenous teenage mothers—an integrated policy approach. Solutions Journal, 9 2: .
Staines, Zoe (2017) Lessons from the recent policy experience in the Indigenous community-employment sector. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 20 3: 229-248.
Staines, Zoe and Lauchs, Mark (2013) The use of Facebook in tertiary education: a case study of a unit-related Facebook page in a university justice class. Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 10 4: 285-296. doi:10.1108/ITSE-05-2013-0008
Staines, Zoe (2013) Managing tacit investigative knowledge: measuring investigative thinking styles. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 36 3: 604-619. doi:10.1108/PIJPSM-07-2012-0072
Staines, Zoe and Lauchs, Mark (2013) Students’ engagement with Facebook in a university undergraduate policing unit. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 29 6: 792-805. doi:10.14742/ajet.270
Lauchs, Mark and Staines, Zoe (2012) Career path of a corruption entrepreneur. Global Crime, 13 2: 109-129. doi:10.1080/17440572.2012.678620
Staines, Zoe (2011) Creativity in policing: building the necessary skills to solve complex and protracted investigations. Ministry of Home Affairs Home Team Journal, 3: 133-144.
Dean, Geoff and Staines, Zoe (2011) Capturing investigative knowledge: methodological scaffolding for measuring thinking styles of police investigators. Ministry of Home Affairs Home Team Journal, 3: 120-132.
Conference Papers
Staines, Zoe (2019). Income management and crime: rethinking evidence and theory. In: Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, Australia, (). 9-11 September.
Staines, Zoe (2019). Demonstrate your impact! The realities of evaluating social outcomes under outcome-focused funding frameworks. In: AIATSIS National Indigenous Research Conference, Brisbane, Australia, (). 1-3 July 2019.
Scott, John and Staines, Zoe (2019). Crime and justice in the Torres Strait Region. In: Senior Torres Strait Islander Police Forum, Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands, (). 19 December 2019.
Lauchs, Mark and Staines, Zoe (2009). Public sector legislation in Queensland: old or new directions?. In: Proceedings of the 2009 IPAA National Conference. IPAA National Conference, Brisbane, Australia, (). 2009.
Thesis
Staines, Zoe (2013). Knowledge management in criminal investigation: empirical examination and re-conceptualisation of dean's investigative thinking styles PhD Thesis, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology.
Research Reports
Marston, Greg, Staines, Zoe and Holtum, Peter (2019) Submission to the Second National Youth Commission Inquiry Collingwood, VIC, Australia: National Youth Commission
Bielefeld, Shelley, Peterie, Michelle, Staines, Zoe and Marston, Greg (2019) Submission No 40 to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Inquiry into the Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition) Bill 2019 Canberra, ACT, Australia: Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs
Bond, Chelsea, Brady, Karla, Hassall, Keryn, Macoun, Alissa, Mukandi, Bryan, Singh, David, Staines, Zoe and Strakosch, Elizabeth (2019) Submission to Productivity Commission Inquiry into an Indigenous Evaluation Strategy Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland
Scott, John, Staines, Zoe and Morton, James (2019) Crime and justice in the Torres Strait Region Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Institute of Criminology
Scott, John, Higginson, Angela, Staines, Zoe, Zhen, Liuissa, Ryan, Vanessa and Lauchs, Mark (2018) Strategic review of Cape York Income Management Department of Social Services: Australian Government
Newspaper Articles
Bond, Chelsea, Macoun, Alissa, Singh, David, Strakosch, Elizabeth and Staines, Zoe (2019, September 12). A new inquiry into Indigenous policy must address the root causes of failure. The Conversation, .
Staines, Zoe and Gordon, Sean (2019, July 11). A road to reconciliation: the case for a voice to Parliament. The Policy Forum, .
Staines, Zoe (2019, April 23). Caught up in CDP's punitive web: what remote women have to win (or lose) on May 18. The Power to Persuade, .
Staines, Zoe (2018, August 29). The Indigenous employment gap is widening and we don’t know how to fix it. The Conversation, .
Staines, Zoe (2018, February 12). Australia is missing the Closing the Gap employment target by decades. The Conversation, .
Staines, Zoe (2018, February 09). Closing the gap requests for Indigenous participation are ironic - at best. Independent Australia, .
Staines, Zoe (2017, December 22). We’re not closing the gap on Indigenous employment, it’s widening. The Conversation, .
Staines, Zoe (2017, December 22). We’re not closing the gap on Indigenous employment, it’s widening. The Conversation, .