Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron
Lecturer
Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron
Bio
Isabelle is a Lecturer and Subject Coordinator at the NSW Police College, Goulburn. She obtained her PhD in Paris, La Sorbonne, at the Centre d’Etudes Urbaines dans le Monde Anglophone (CEUMA). She studied comparative civilization with Pr. Sophie Body-Gendrot and specialized in comparative justice, policing and socio-legal studies.
Isabelle got a postdoctorate scholarship in 2003 to study restorative justice and policing with Professor Mylène Jaccoud, at the International Centre of Comparative Criminology, University of Montreal, Quebec. She then went to South Africa to study community justice and community policing in poor communities around Capetown, through a partnership between the School of Government, Western Cape University and The University of Bergen, Norway.
Before coming to Goulburn, she worked as a postdoctorate fellow on an ARC linkage research project at the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), Australian National University, where she worked with Professor Clifford Shearing, Dr. Jennifer Wood and Dr. Monique Marks. In partnership with Victoria Police, the Nexus Policing action research project, on which she worked as pilot project manager, focused on community policing, local governance of crime and young people.
Teaching
- Socio-legal studies and social issues
- Minorities, cultural and ethnic identities
- Community Policing
- Problem-Orien ted Policing (PPP242: Problem-Orien ted Policing and Vulnerable People)
Research
- Policing and policing systems, theory and practice
- Restorative Justice
- Community and Participatory Justice and Policing
- the notion of “community” in socio-legal studies
- the influence of history and cultural representations in the making and in the administration of the Law
How all the above elements can be jointly articula ted (for example, how restorative justice could be jointly articulated with criminal justice or within criminal justice systems)
Research projects
The School Liaison Police Initiative: A multi-faceted evaluation in New South Wales
- Co-Chief Investigator (with Victoria Herrington, Australian Graduate School of Policing)
Fly a white balloon: addressing child sexual abuse in regional Australia
- Joint Charles Sturt University school partnership: School of Policing Studies & School of Community Health
- Chief Investigator - Co-investigators: Ms. Ilena Young and Dr. Michael Curtin
- Evaluation commissioned by Upper Hume Community Health Services
Isabelle is in the process of developing further research projects with Professor Mylène Jaccoud (University of Montreal, Quebec) on aboriginal policing and transfer of powers, and with Andrew Millie (Loughborough University) and Victoria Herrington on policing practice and social representations of police and policing.
