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Dr. Kate Burns is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University's School of Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Criminology from Monash University (2018), focusing on justice reinvestment policies. Prior to academia, she worked in UK public-sector criminal justice policy roles. Her research emphasizes criminal justice reform, public policy, and governmentality, with a focus on elder abuse, disaster management, and veterans' health.
Key projects include 'Elder Abuse and Cognitive Impairment' (2025–2026), funded by the Attorney-General's Department, and 'Evaluation of Public Intoxication Reform' (2023–2025). She collaborates widely, including with the Department of Veterans' Affairs on aging strategies. Burns actively supervises PhD students and contributes to Monash's criminology curriculum development, emphasizing First Nations knowledge integration.
Her research outputs span disaster policing resilience, international student mobility for social justice, and gerontology through art-science collaboration. She participates in conferences like the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference and engages with media on criminology education initiatives.
