Dr Peta Malins - RMIT University

Position: Senior Lecturer

College / Portfolio: Design and Social Context

School / Department: DSC|School of GUSS

Phone: +61399252110

Email: peta.malins@rmit.edu.au

Campus: City Campus

Contact me about: Research supervision

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5961-7492

Dr Peta Malins (she/they) is Program Manager of the Bachelor of Legal and Dispute Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Justice Studies. They are a member of the Social and Global Studies Centre and the Centre for Urban Research.

Key activities

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 and policing, as well as prison abolition, transformative justice, gender and sexuality. They have an interest in the intersections between theory and practice, and the complex connections between bodies, cultural representations and urban space in enactments of power and harm. They are currently working on research projects regarding drug-detection dog operations and school-based drug education, and supervising an honours thesis on prison abolition.

Research

Peta’s publications are listed here:

Google Scholar profile

RMIT research repository

Teaching

Peta manages the Legal and Dispute Studies (LDS) Bachelor Program and teaches in Sociology of Law, Contemporary Criminology, Deviance Control and Conflict, and Sociology of Drug Use.

Qualifications

BA(Hons), Melb
PhD Criminology, Melb

Industry Experience

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. They have also volunteered with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) and the DanceWize peer education harm reduction program. They are a member of Harm Reduction Victoria, Unharm! and Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP).

Publications

Malins, P.,Kent, N. (2020). Assembling Affects: A Deleuzo-Guattarian approach to school drug education In: Social Theory and Health Education, Routledge, United Kingdom
Malins, P. (2019). Drug dog affects: Accounting for the broad social, emotional and health impacts of general drug detection dog operations in Australia In: International Journal of Drug Policy, 67, 63 - 71
Malins, P. (2017). Desiring assemblages: A case for desire over pleasure in critical drug studies In: International Journal of Drug Policy, 49, 126 - 132
Deana, L.,Malins, P. (2015). Biopedagogical assemblages: Exploring school drug education in action In: Cultural studies: Critical Methodologies, 15, 398 - 406
Malins, P. (2011). An ethico-aesthetics of heroin chic: art, cliche and capitalism In: Deleuze and the Body, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Student Research Supervision

Critical drug studies (drug use, drug policy, drug education, drug policing), Policing practices, Queer theory, Human-animal connections, Postcolonial criminology, Critical Race theory, Post-structural criminology (especially the work of Deleuze & Guattari), Abolition and Transformative Justice.

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