Dr Angela Dwyer

Dr Angela Dwyer is a sociologist and Associate Professor in Policing at the School of Social Sciences at University of Tasmania.

Her research on how sexuality, gender, and sex diversity influences policing contributed to founding the discipline area of queer criminology and her work on this was awarded the Richard Tewksbury Award by the Western Society of Criminology 2022-2023.

With other colleagues in queer criminology, she founded the Division of Queer Criminology for the American Society of Criminology and was a founding co-Chair.

She is a dedicated critical criminologist deeply invested in changing how criminal processing systems to better protect vulnerable, marginalised people caught up in these systems.

As such, she works hard to ensure her research directly informs strategic advice about how police and community organisations can better support LGBTIQ+ people, and has received more than $1.2 million in competitive research funding to collaborate with policing, government, and LGBTIQ community organisations around Australia to do this.

She also volunteers her own time so that she can give back to the communities she does research with through high level advocacy to change legislation to better protect LGBTIQ people around Australia (as she did in her role as Secretary of Just Equal [2017-2022]).