The ACCCE is proud of our partnership with the University of Queensland Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice Honours program. Honours students from this program work with the ACCCE to release and showcase research into online child abuse material, offenders and prevention.
The research helps detail the implications and recommendations that law enforcement and Government could adopt or further investigate and inform the prevention initiatives that the ACCCE undertakes.
2024 program
University of Queensland student, Lara Thompson, of the 2024 UQ research program has completed research in the following area:
2023 program
University of Queensland students, Onari Jayarathne and Harriet Passey-Fowle, of the 2023 UQ research program have completed their research in the following areas:
- News Media Framing of Online Child Exploitation: Implications for Educational Prevention Efforts
- Judicial Conceptualisations of Online Child Grooming, Capping, and Sextortion: A Thematic Analysis of Sentencing Remarks
2022 program
University of Queensland students, Caitlin Zillmann and Darcy Binger, of the 2022 UQ research program, have completed their research in the following areas:
- Preventing Online Child Sexual Exploitation: The Consistency and Duplication of Non-Government Organisation Guidelines
- “Keeping Them Safe”: Consistency in Australian Online Child Exploitation Prevention Messaging
As a collaborative research arrangement, the ACCCE partnered with the University of Queensland and researcher Ashley Elson-Green, to conduct research into the following:
2021 program
University of Queensland students, Ashley Elson-Green and Mia Fairbrother, of the 2021 UQ research program completed their research in the following areas:
- Impacts & Responses to: Victims of Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse
- From possessor to producer: The offending pathway for child abuse material producers
2020 program
The ACCCE piloted the research program in 2020, in partnership with University of Queensland students Bec Dunne and Rebecca Gavin. Their research was released in December 2020