Associate Professor Faith Gordon (PhD) (she/her) is an interdisciplinary socio-legal scholar and criminologist and is an Associate Professor and Deputy Associate Dean of Research at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University. Faith has extensive experience of research and teaching in areas including youth justice; children’s rights; criminal law; media and digital technologies; and youth climate action. Along with Dr Dan Newman she has edited collections in the areas of global perspectives to access to justice in rural communities (Hart Publishing), and law and social justice (Routledge) and has co-edited special issues with colleagues in the areas of digital technologies. Faith’s research, including her sole-authored monograph (Palgrave Macmillan, Socio-Legal Series) has been cited by the United Nations, the Northern Ireland High Court, the UK Court of Appeal, the Youth Court in Aotearoa New Zealand and referred to by the UK Joint Committee on Draft Online Safety Bill, House of Lords. Faith has been a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, Queen's University and University College London. She has won a number of awards and prizes for her research and teaching, including: The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Influential Impact and Engagement (2022), Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, Excellence in Education Awards (2022), the Stanley Cohen Prize and the Northern Ireland Law Society Prize for the best research project.

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