I’m thrilled to share the news that Dr Maria Puyol, has won the Executive Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis for 2023 for the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, QUT.
Maria Puyol worked tirelessly with my ARC research team through the COVID pandemic to produce her award winning Phd thesis. Congratulations on this achievement. The title and abstract of her Phd appears below.
Policing gendered violence. A study on women’s police stations in Argentina
This thesis is the first study on establishing and transforming Women’s Police Stations (WPS) in Argentina and their impacts on policing gendered violence. It explores the opinions and representations of WPS employees regarding their practices, their links with social actors, and the cases in which they intervene. This research is a case study of WPS in Argentina that combines semi-structured interviews with 100 WPS’ workers, participant observations in 10 WPS, and documentary data analysis. Within the framework of Southern and Feminist Criminology, this thesis addresses the scarcity of studies on policing gendered violence in the Global South.
Maria has several publications forthcoming from this important work, which I will post as they are published.
