DrLisa Ewenson

Dr Lisa Ewenson is a Chancellor's Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law. She is an experienced social worker and lawyer who has worked in a range of human rights-focused roles, including as a humanitarian advocate within immigration detention centres across Australia. Lisa's doctoral research involved narrative inquiry with children and young people recently released from youth justice detention in NSW (2022). In 2025, Lisa was awarded the Australian Journal of Human Rights' Andrea Durbach prize for outstanding scholarship for her article concerned with lived experiences of youth justice detention. Her current research examines democracy and the right to adequate housing in this era of climate change, with a particular focus on older women who are the fastest growing cohort facing homelessness across the nation.

Lisa is admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. Lisa is also a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers' National Research Committee and is an editorial board member for the Alternative Law Journal.