Reproductive labour and basic income
Zoe Staines is a Senior ARC DECRA Research Fellow and Leader of the Inequalities and Social Action Research Cluster within the School of Social Science, University of Queensland. She previously held research and policy positions in the Queensland public sector and, more recently, in the not-for-profit sector, as a Senior Policy Officer and Manager of Research. Since completing her PhD in criminology, she has published in the areas of policing, social policy, welfare conditionality, coloniality, gender and employment, and rural/remote crime and governance. Zoe is also Co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Social Issues.
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About School Research Seminar Series
POLSIS Research Seminar Series
Semester 2 2026
All sessions are held in-person, Friday 1 — 2:30pm, Room 537, Building 39A (unless stated)
Date | Event | Name | Title |
31 July | Seminar | Page Wilson, Iceland | 'Greenland, Trump and Musk: the Lesser Known Story' |
14 August | ECR Roundtable | Anne Nyaard Jedzini Sara Meija Munoz Xuwan Ouyang | 'Deliberative power-sharing in Australian Local Governance’ ‘Entangled normativities: energy of life and energy transition in Colombia’ ‘Multinational Companies and Atrocity Prevention’ |
21 August | Seminar | Shahar Hameiri, UQ | ‘Limits on US Efforts to Compete with China on Infrastructure and Critical Minerals: Lobito Corridor’ |
28 August | Seminar | Kelly Fielding, UQ | ‘Can unconventional climate advocates increase support for climate action in Australia?’ |
4 September | Seminar | Ferran Martinez i Coma, Griffith | ‘Do Australian Election Management Bodies Learn?’ |
11 September | Roundtable Event | Adrian Cherney Kiriloi Ingram Matt McDonald Andrew Phillips | ‘9/11: 25 Years On’ 12-2pm Viewpoint Room, Lunch Included 12-12.45pm, Registration required. |
18 September | Seminar | Morgan Rees, QUT | ‘The Paranoid Style in Australian Foreign Policy’ |
25 September | Seminar | Karen Crawley and Samid Suliman, Griffith | ‘Democracy, the Arts and the Politics of Social Cohesion’ |
16 October | Seminar | Madeleine Pugin, Griffith | ‘UNDRIP and Urban Aboriginal Cultural Recognition in South East Queensland’ |
23 October | Seminar | Heloise Weber, UQ | ‘Colonial Architecture and Capitalist Transformation’ |
For further information contact Professor Matt McDonald, Director of Research: matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au.