About the Practitioner
A combination of professional and personal experience led me to join the Canberra Restorative Community Network in 2016. As a student I had volunteered in local organisations such as Legal Aid ACT and St Vincent de Paul. After qualifying as a barrister I spent some time at Auckland University in an advocacy and conflict resolution role. From 2001-2009 I was a member of the ANU Regulatory Institutions Network, where I met John Braithwaite, Miranda Forsyth, Mary Ivec and others involved in restorative research.
Personal experience of intergenerational violence and trauma led me to train and work as an International Coach Federation-credentialed coach from 2012. I currently hold an ICF Professional Credentialed Coach qualification, was a founding member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council Asia-Pacific branch and have completed Conflict Coaching training. Coaching as I understand it is a radically respectful and inherently restorative practice.
After 8 years running a successful "international microbusiness" in coaching, in 2020 I joined the University of Canberra Law School as a Senior Lecturer. I teach criminal justice, criminal law, administrative law and research units and am working with Dr Holly Northam OAM and others to realise the vision of a restorative university in connection with local, national and international communities.
More than 20 years experience in victim support and advocacy has helped shape the way I work. I am a qualified barrister and solicitor and hold internationally recognised coaching qualifications. My academic research between 2000 and 2010 focused on the governance of knowledge and its relationship to development, with particular focus on collaborative models of knowledge creation. My current academic work centres around the education of emerging professionals in the law and justice sectors, including introducing them to restorative practices in the criminal justice system and elsewhere.
This area of practice is continually emerging and evolving and Restorative Process is an evolving interest for Janet.
Organisation
(1) Principal and owner
(2) Senior Lecturer
(1) Not directly related to justice system -- supports clients with conflict resolution in a variety of contexts
(2) Education of law and justice professionals, research relating to public law including criminal and administrative law
(1) Coaching, facilitation, research, conflict resolution
(2) Education (university), research