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The role of women working in corrective services will be the subject of the 2011 Grace Vaughan Memorial lecture held at The University of Western Australia on Monday 14 March 2011.

To mark the centenary year of International Women's Day, Emerita Professor Anne Worrall, former Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at Keele University in the UK, will explore the history and present day place of women who work in statutory and voluntary corrective services.

Professor Worrall has researched and published widely in the two (overlapping) areas of women and crime and non-custodial punishment and her talk will draw on her two current UK research projects on probation officer cultures and ‘one-stop shop' provision for women offenders.

Anne has close connections with The University of Western Australia, where she has been a visiting Professor-at-Large, promoting inter-disciplinary research in criminal justice and social policy and social work. She has also been a member of the Parole Board of England and Wales and is an Editor of The British Journal of Criminology .

The annual Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture is a partnership arrangement between the Australian Association of Social Workers , The University of Western Australia and Department for Communities - Women's Interests , Western Australia.

The Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture is held annually to commemorate the life and achievements of Grace Vaughan, social worker, social activist and parliamentarian, who died in 1984.

TITLE: From Symbolic Mother to Public Protector: women working in corrective services

WHEN: 6pm, Monday 14 May

WHERE: University Club Theatre Auditorium, UWA.  The nearest car park is P3, off Hackett Entrance 1

COST: This is a free public lecture. All welcome.

Please RSVP your attendance to [email protected] by 7 March 2011.

Media references

Audrey Barton (UWA Institute of Advanced Studies)  (+61 8)  6488 4797