Associate Professor Lucy Cradduck

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Associate Professor, Faculty of Business & Law

Doctor of Juridical Science (Queensland University of Technology), LLM(TechLaw) (Queensland University of Technology), Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Queensland University of Technology), LLB (Queensland University of Technology), ANZIIF(Assoc) (Other)

Associate Professor Cradduck was appointed in 2012 as part of QUT's Early Career Academic Recruitment and Development (ECARD) Program. She was promoted to Associate Professor in August 2021. Lucy's primary research interest is in the development of appropriate broadband/internet access policies. Her research also considers the impacts to property use and users arising from access (and lack of appropriate access) to the internet.   Related research outputs include:   Awards and recognition: 2019: Women’s Law Association Queensland Inc: WLAQ’s Inspo List – 2019 List of Women Who Have Inspired 2013: QUT Vice Chancellor’s Performance Award for research 2012: Best Innovative Refereed Conference Paper award – PRRES Conference – Paper: ‘Place and Space: Community in the Internet Economy and What This Will Mean for Property’ 2012: First Time Author Award 2011 – Pacific Rim Property Research Journal – Article: ‘Concerns about the rollout of broadband: a legal consideration of Australia’s NBN greenfield policy’ 2006: Fisher Community Australia Day Award – for services to the community 2002: Tony Dick Memorial Prize (QUT) for contributions to the community

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Before joining QUT Law, Associate Professor Cradduck worked as a law lecturer within the Faculty of Arts and Business at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Lucy also was USC's inaugural Student Ombudsman. At USC she lectured to undergraduates, postgraduates and within the Executive MBA program. Lucy maintains her Practising Certificate as a solicitor. She has held legal positions in private firms, in-house and within government. She also acts for a reviewer for international journals: New Media and Society, the Journal of Learning Design, Property Management, the Journal of African Real Estate Research, and the Pacific Rim Property Research Journal
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2021
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Nomination for QLS Agnes McWhinney Award, which recognises a woman who has facilitated a pathway in the profession for those around her. It also recognises how their ordinary commitment and service to the profession or community has an extraordinary effect. Dr Cradduck was nominated by past and present QUT undergraduate and post-graduate students who are, or who aspire to be, members of the legal profession. The nomination reads in part: "Lucy is a highly valued member of the profession through the enthusiasm and encouragement she brings to her role ... at QUT. ... She seeks at all times to go beyond what is required for the content delivery to enable those students in their future careers, and in their understanding of the depth and breadth of the law's impact for their industries and professions." AND "Lucy further demonstrates her ordinary extraordinariness in her commitment to enabling students and junior practitioners to expand themselves by engaging with her in research opportuni
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2019
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Included in the 'WLAQ's Inspo List - 2019 List of Women Who Have Inspired'. First QUT academic to be included. Specific mention made in the Inspo List 2019 by Women Lawyers Association of Queensland (WLAQ) Committee: "Dr Cradduck is an esteemed academic who seeks to inspire her students to think both logically and laterally in their study of law."
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2018
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judge for preliminary rounds and quarter finals at the Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot 2018
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Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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2013
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Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award
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Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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2012
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Best Innovative Refereed Conference Paper at PRRES Conference 2012 for paper 'Place and Space: Community in the Internet Economy and What This Will Mean for Property'.
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