Dr Peta Malins

Peta is a critical, poststructural researcher who explores the embodied effects and affects of crime and justice interventions, with a particular focus on drug use, policing, gender and sexuality. She has an interest in the intersections between theory and practice, and the complex connections between bodies, cultural representations and urban space in enactments of harm. She is currently working on research projects regarding drug-detection dog operations, school-based drug education, and overdose memorials.

Peta’s publications are listed here:

Google Scholar profile

RMIT research repository

See also: Peta’s twitter profile

• BA(Hons), Melb
• PhD Criminology, Melb

Peta has worked previously at the City of Melbourne (City Safety / Drug Policy), the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society, and the FootPatrol outreach Needle and Syringe Program. She has also volunteered with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) and the DanceWize peer education harm reduction program.

She is on the Advisory Board for the PARTi project, a peer-led harm reduction intervention designed to reduce overdose deaths and other harms in the Melbourne dance party scene. And she is a member of Unharm! and SSDP, both grassroots drug policy advocacy organisations.