Ellie Turner

Teaching Strengths

Academic Writing
Authentic feedback and assessment
Passion & Enthusiasm
Clear communication and social skills
Criminology and Public Policy

Mx Ellie Turner

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences


I am a criminology PhD student in the School of Social Sciences researching the criminalisation of climate change activism. My research focuses on a wide range of phenomena; from how language is utilised to construct climate change activism as criminal in legal contexts, to the structure and flow of online interactions in response to climate change activism in the current day political context. 
 
Having completed my undergraduate in psychology, my areas of interests also include forensic and correctional psychology. Methodologically, I am passionate about discourse analysis; how language is used to construct social worlds, as well as social network analysis; how social structures are made up of webs of individual relations.
 
Alongside my PhD project, I am fascinated by the history of medical sciences and abandoned infrastructure. Outside of research, I am an artist, both traditional and digital, and an astrophotographer.
 

Date Institution name Country Title
2019 - 2022 University of Adelaide Australia Honours Degree of Bachelor of Psychology (Advanced)
Code Title Role Year
LAWS 1016 Crime Problems in Australia Tutor S1 2026
CRIM 3007 Criminal Network Analysis Tutor and Marker S2 2025
CRIM 2007 Criminal Network Analysis Tutor and Marker S2 2025
PSYCHOL 2004 Doing Research in Psychology Tutor S1 2025
PSYCHOL 3020 Doing Research in Psychology: Advanced Teaching Assistant S2 2024
PSYCHOL 2007 Psychology in Society Tutor and Marker S2 2024
PSYCHOL 3027 Psychology, Science, & Society Tutor and Marker S1 2024
PSYCHOL 2007 Psychology in Society Tutor and Marker S2 2023

Date Topic Presented at Institution Country
2023 - 2023 “Even if acting in extremis…” The Construction of Guilty Behaviour Regarding Wrongfully Convicted Individuals: A Thematic Discourse Analysis of Court Transcripts Conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists and the Australasian Congress on Personality and Individual Differences Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Australia

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