DrLisa Ewenson

Through the Chancellor's Research Fellowship, Lisa is undertaking community-embedded socio-legal research across NSW and Queensland for the project “Democracy, Relationality and Rights: Older Women, Housing Precarity and Climate Change.” 

This research focuses on older women who are the fastest growing cohort facing housing precarity and homelessness. This is a national crisis further exacerbated by climate change, and this project aims to offer novel solutions. This research will draw on the often overlooked or silenced experiences of women as located within this era of climate change. The process of enabling older women participation and agency in this research ensures that place is central, and also that long-term relationships are built ensuring that this research will grow and develop over the years to come. This project is therefore focused on long-term relationship development, and law and policy reform, as well as reframing public discourse about our democracy in the context of climate change impacts.

Lisa is teaching into Ethics, Law and Justice within the Faculty of Law. Lisa's previous research focused on children's rights and youth justice issues, research ethics, and the contribution of social work in this era of climate change.