HDR Program Director's welcome
Dr Mark Nolan is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law. His doctoral work, with PhD degree conferred in 2004, involved quantitative and qualitative social psychological research investigating the use of human rights arguments in contemporary Australian political debate (see M Nolan, Construing Human Rights: Protecting Subgroups and Individuals (Saarbruecken: VDM Verlag Dr Mueller, 2008)).
Mark joined the ANU College of Law in 2002 and has taught Criminal Law and Procedure, Selected Topics in Criminal Law, Foundations of Australian Law, Law and Psychology (at the undergraduate level) and Advocacy, Military Discipline Law, and Advanced Military Discipline Law (at the postgraduate coursework level).
Mark has supervised many honours student projects and has supervised or advised HDR students in the ANU College of Law working on sentencing, criminal justice and other interdisciplinary research projects. Mark has advises HDR students completing social justice research at the ANU School of Psychology.
Mark is the author or co-author of a range of publications, including parliamentary inquiry submission work, in the area of criminal law and procedure, counter-terrorism law, citizenship and identity, and social-legal research methods
We encourage applications from both domestic and international students interested in studying law as part of a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD), or the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) research degree.
We prefer to supervise students who can be based full-time at the ANU College of Law, though many of our 66 students (as 8 March 2012) are part-time students, and some are based externally.
A pre-application process is used to screen your application in an attempt to match you early on with potential supervisors who can assist you in shaping thesis proposals for the University's formal online application process.
The research culture at ANU is strong and bolstered by the many domestic and international visitors to the ANU College of Law (academics, retired judges, practitioners), the many research centres hosted by the ANU College of Law, a national post-graduate conference (held annually), organised by ANU College of Law research students for Australian research students in law, and/or related disciplines, and our location in Canberra close to the Australian parliament, public service, and the High Court.
The Australian National University campus is a unique and relaxed environment in which to undertake research. We hope that any time you spend with us as a research student is a rich and productive period of your intellectual life.
I look forward to discussing your research plans and research progress with you during the course of an ANU College of Law research degree.
Leighton McDonald
Director of Higher Degree Research Program
T: + 61 2 6125 8284
E: researchdegrees.law@anu.edu.au
