PhD
Contact details for Dr Tara McGee
Biography
Tara joined the Griffith University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice as a Senior Lecturer in July 2010. Prior to this she was part of the QUT School of Justice which she joined in 2005. During her time at QUT, Tara was a member of the University Human Research Ethics Committee and also was the Faculty Research Ethics Advisor. Tara has previously worked as a Research Officer at the former Criminal Justice Commission 1997-2000 and has also held research and teaching positions at The University of Queensland.
Tara has a strong background in designing questionnaires and administering large scale survey design research. She has worked with the Mater University Study of Pregnancy (MUSP), a large scale longitudinal study, for over ten years. Her PhD research focused on persistence and desistence of antisocial behaviour across childhood and adolescence and used data from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy (MUSP): http://www.ansoc.uq.edu.au/research/musp
More recent research extends her PhD findings to examine and compare the outcomes of antisocial behaviour in early adulthood. Tara has also been working with colleagues to examine individual antisocial behaviour in the context of family and neighbourhood factors. This research was funded in 2008 by the Australian Criminology Research Council.
In 2007-08, Tara was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology. Her ongoing work with Prof David Farrington examines adult-onset offending in the Cambridge Study of Delinquent Development (CSDD). During her time in Cambridge, Tara was also a visiting scholar at Wolfson College.
Tara is a member of the Committee of Management (Queensland Representative) of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC).She also participated in the Executive activities of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), where she was the TASA Executive Officer 2001-2004 and was a TASA Executive Committee Member in 2005-2008.