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 1 2026
All sessions are held in-person, Friday 1 — 2:30pm, Room 537, Building 39A (unless stated)
Date | Event | Name | Title |
27 February | R2P/ Research Seminar | Jeff Sizemore | Atrocity Prevention in a Tough World |
6 March | Portfolio Event | Sarah Percy, UQ | Excellence in RHD Supervision |
13 March | Seminar | Haroro Ingram, UQ | The Promises of Revolutionary Violence |
20 March | Seminar | Sarah Percy, UQ | The History of War in Seven Weapons |
27 March | Seminar | Kristine Bowman, Michigan SU and UQ | Free Speech on US University Campuses |
17 April | Seminar | Sofia Ammassari, Griffith | Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right |
24 April | RHD Showcase | Aly Tkachenko; Adarsh Badri; Guidora (Julie) Kopong | Direct Action Tactics as Ecological Security?; Elite Discourses of Belonging in British India; Kinship Structures and Gendered Distribution of Resources in Timor-Leste and Indonesia. |
1 May | Seminar | Marshall Beier, McMaster University | Making and Unmaking Righteous War: The Work that Childhood Does |
8 May | IE/ Research Seminar | Madeleine Pugin, Griffith University | UNDRIP and Urban Aboriginal Cultural Recognition in South East Queensland |
15 May | Seminar | Owen Worth, University of Limerick | Rosa Luxemburg and the lost critique of IR |
22 May | Seminar | Jiye Kim, UQ | The Future of the South China Sea: Disputes and Negotiations |
29 May | Streams Meetings | Shahar Hameiri DB Subedi Nick Heron & Adam Hannah | International Relations Peace and Conflict Studies Political Science & Public Policy |
For further information contact Professor Matt McDonald, Director of Research: matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au.