— Ellie Turner
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
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 |
| 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 |