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 2025
All sessions are held in-person, Friday 1 — 2:30pm, Room 537, Building 39A (unless stated)
1 August | Minran Liu (UQ) | Seminar | ‘Correcting the World: Justice and Coercion in Chinese Strategic Culture’ |
8 August | Katherine Cullerton (UQ) | Seminar | ‘Corporate influence and the nutrition policy stalemate in Australia’ |
| 15 August | Ilias Alami (Cambridge), Lee Jones (QMUL), Seth Schindler (Manchester), Shahar Hameiri (UQ) | Roundtable | 'The Second Cold War and the Politics of Polyalignment’ |
22 August | Alastair Stark (UQ) | Seminar | ‘Erase and Repeat: Institutional Amnesia in Government’ |
| 29 August | Alastair Stark (Chair) | Portfolio Event | Grad Centre Event: Participation |
5 September | Michael Gavin (UQ) | Seminar | ‘The Politics of the IMF's lending capacity’ |
12 September | Jon Piccini (ACU) | Seminar | 'The History of Left Nationalist Foreign Policy in Australia’ |
| 17 September (5-7pm) | Andrew Phillips (UQ) | Inaugural Lecture, 275 GCI Building | ‘Who Killed the Liberal International Order, and What Comes Next?’ |
19 September | Martin Weber (Chair) | Portfolio Event | Indigenous Engagement Event |
| 26 September | Kiri Ingram (UQ) | Seminar | ‘The strategic logic of gender in violent extremist ideology and propaganda strategy: from Islamic State to Incels’ |
10 October | Ryan Walter (Chair) | Portfolio Event | T&L Event: Secure Assessment Showcase |
| 17 October | Lindy Andren, Molly Murphy, Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson (UQ) | ECR Showcase | ECR Showcase |
| 24 October | Julie Ballangarry & Outi Donovan (Griffith) | Seminar | ‘First Nations and Feminist Foreign Policy’ |
29 October | Outi Donovan & Matt McDonald (Chairs) | UQ-Griffith Showcase, Ship Inn, South Bank | UQ- Griffith Research Showcase: Politics & IR in SEQ |
Enquiries:
Director of Research, Professor Matt McDonald – matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au