Associate Professor Danielle Watson

Associate Professor, Faculty of CI, Education & Social Justice

Danielle is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the School of Justice. 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.

Indo-Pacific Experience

• Fiji
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

Past and current projects

Beyond Imported Understandings of Domestic Violence in the Pacific

The ARC DECRA project aims to investigate local understandings of the causes, manifestations, and best-suited responses to the problem in the Pacific. It advances a study of local stakeholder’s perspectives of domestic violence in Solomon Islands and Tuvalu to generate non-Western, context-specific insight into developing policies and practices to inform improved frontline responses.

Developing Contextually Appropriate Responses to Domestic Violence in Developing Pacific Island Countries: A Pathway to Improved Frontline Responses

The British Academy Global Challenges Research Funds (GCRF) Networking Grant project engaged stakeholders from Fiji, PNG, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to discuss multi-partner responses to DV.