Meredith Rossner is Deputy Director, Research School of Social Sciences and Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Social Research & Methods at the ANU. Her research focuses on emotions, rituals, the built environment, and technology in justice practices.  Past and current projects include investigations into the emotional dynamics of restorative justice, therapeutic courts, the role of courtroom design on access to justice, and the use of video and virtual technology in courts.  Meredith has published widely in the field of restorative justice, including Just Emotions: Rituals of Restorative Justice (OUP, 2013).  She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Restorative Justice, a member of the Canberra Restorative Community and the Oceania Network of Restorative Practice for Sexual Harm.   

PhD (Criminology and Sociology)

• Restorative justice
• Emotions and criminal justice
• Online and virtual courts
• Lay participation in justice
• Juries and jury deliberation
• Courts and tribunals
• Architecture, technology, and justice
• Sociology of punishment