Dr Lara Palombo
Lecturer in Criminology, Macquarie University
Responsabilities
- Reach out to new members and maintaining membership lists
- Update online member profiles
- Report annually on membership
- Support committee processes and CGWG conference organisation
- Compile and communicate Annual General Meeting minutes
- Attend RGS research group events
- Supports CGWG with social media outreach
Other roles
- 2026: Co-Editor of Carceral Crossings forum
- 2026: Organising Collective for 2026 National Conference
- From 2024: Oversee Annual Undergraduate Dissertation Prize and Postgraduate Paper Prize.
Research Interest
Dr Lara Palombo (she/her) a Lecturer in Criminology at Macquarie University. Her research focuses on settler colonial penal governance, transnational penal technologies, the incarceration of migrants and diasporic women, gender-based violence, and carceral media imaginaries. Her research emerges from her lived experience of criminalisation and gender‑based violence, informing a critical perspective on the matrix of violence and the systems of power that sustain it. She applies critical theoretical frameworks drawn from feminist and critical race theory, intersectionality, anti-colonial and decolonial approaches, infrastructural theory, transformative justice, and abolition. She is currently working on a project examining prisons, makeshift cells, communities, and media representations of incarceration in the post-COVID era.
Contact
If you would like to get in touch with Lara in her role as Secretary and Communication lead, please email at Lara.Palombo@mq.edu.au