Associate Professor
Danielle Watson
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Justice
Biography
Danielle Watson is an Associate Professor and Research Training Coordinator in the School of Justice. She is also an Affiliate of the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI). Her research focuses on Pacific regional security, border security, policing, police/community relations, policing culturally and linguistically diverse communities and plural regulatory systems in the Caribbean and Pacific. She conducts research on (in)security in Pacific Island countries, capacity building for security service providers, recruitment and training as well as many other areas specific to improving security governance in developing country contexts. Her research interests are multidisciplinary in scope as she also conducts research geared towards the advancement of tertiary teaching and learning.
Danielle has contributed significantly to the development of context specific scholarship on security in small island developing states in the Global South. She is the principal researcher on four ongoing projects: “Beyond Imported Understandings of Domestic Violence in the Pacific”, “Reimagining insecurity in Pacific Island States”, “Policing Pacific Island Communities” and “Indigenising Discourses on Access to Justice in the Pacific” and the lead author of Policing in the Pacific Island (2022, Palgrave) and Police and the Policed (2018, Palgrave).
Danielle has won competitive grants and consultancy tenders from international bodies such as the Australian Research Council, the British Academy, Canada-CARICOM awards, Pacific Immigration Development Community and the UNDP. She has also been the recipient of prestigious fellowships, which include recognition as an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA Indigenous), an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Endeavour Executive Fellowship (2016) and a British Academy Fellowship (2018).
As a cross disciplinary researcher working in multiple countries across the globe, she has research collaborators and networks in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, Oceania, and North and South America.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Personal details
Positions
- Principal Research Fellow
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Justice - Associate Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Justice
Keywords
(In)security in SIDS, Security Governance, Policing, Island Criminology, Access to Justice
Research field
Criminology, Cultural studies, Sociology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of The West Indies)
Professional memberships and associations
- Book Review Editor, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
- Editorial Board Member - Salus - An International Journal for Law Enforcement, National Security and Emergency Management
- Member - British Society of Criminology
- Member - Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC)
- Member - International Sociological Association
- Member - Asian Criminological Society
Teaching
- JSB229: Border Security
- JSB284: Policing in Context
- JSB374: Crime Prevention
Experience
Research Reports
- Watson D., Rivera J., & Macnich J. (2019). Guam Police Department Stakeholder Perceptions Study Technical Report. The University of the South Pacific, Fiji.
- Watson, D. (2017). Tuvalu Police stakeholder perceptions survey. Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific.
Publications
- Watson, D., Howes, L., Dinnen, S., Bull, M. & Amin, S. (2023). Policing in the Pacific Islands. Palgrave Macmillan. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/237919
- Watson, D., Amin, S., Wallace, W., Akinlabi, O. & Ruiz-Vasquez, J. (2023). Policing the Global South: Colonial Legacies, Pluralities, Partnerships, and Reform. Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235325
- Johnson, L., Watson, D. & Pino, N. (2023). Policing in Trinidad and Tobago: Officers' experiences with stress. Social Science Journal, 60(3), 432–446. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200406
- Watson, D., Yap, A., Pino, N. & Blaustein, J. (2021). Problematising the Rule of Law Agenda in the SDG Context. In J. Blaustein, K. Fitz-Gibbon, NW. Pino & R. White (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development (pp. 131–152). Emerald. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206116
- Watson, D., Boateng, F. & Miles-Johnson, T. (2021). Legitimizing policing practices: a study of stakeholder perceptions of police trustworthiness, effectiveness and relationship with the community. Police Practice and Research, 22(1), 623–639. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197161
- Bull, M., Watson, D., Amin, S. & Carrington, K. (2021). Women and policing in the South Pacific: A pathway towards gender-inclusive organizational reform. Police Practice and Research, 22(1), 389–408. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203421
- Dinnen, S. & Watson, D. (2021). Police reform in a post-conflict context: The case of Solomon Islands. Policing (Oxford), 15(1), 387–398. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/136015
- Amin, S., Watson, D. & Girard, C. (2020). Mapping Security in the Pacific: A Focus on Context, Gender and Organisational Culture. Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/215839
- Watson, D. & Morgan, P. (2020). 'Criminals, Taliban, terrorists, murderers': Community perceptions of police in a crime hotspot in Trinidad. Caribbean Quarterly, 66(2), 281–300. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/201725
- Watson, D., (2019). Police and the Policed: Language and Power Relations on the Margins of the Global South. Palgrave Pivot. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197420
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Fellowship of a Learned Academy or Membership of AIATSIS
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Associate Fellow (Indigenous)
- Type
- Fellowship of a Learned Academy or Membership of AIATSIS
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- I was awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellowship for Peer Collaboration and Research Project Development at Cardiff University, UK. The fellowship resulted in a successful British Academy Global Challenges Research Funds (GCRF)Networking Grant to titled 'Developing Contextually-appropriate Responses to Domestic Violence in Developing Pacific Island Countries: A Pathway to Improved Frontline Responses'.
Selected research projects
- Title
- Beyond Imported Understandings of Domestic Violence in the Pacific
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE240100189
- Start year
- 2024
- Keywords
- Title
- Improving the Policing of Gender Violence in the Global South
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP210100546
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
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Current supervisions
- Fakafoki Ki Api (Returned Home) - The Deportation of Tongan Non-citizen Criminals from Australia: an analysis of deportee's experiences and the perceptions and attitudes of Tonga towards receiving criminal deportees from Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor John Scott, Professor Melissa Bull - Understanding Gender-Based Violence Responses During Emergencies and Disasters in Solomon Islands
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Melissa Bull, Professor Kerry Carrington