Joanne Papageorgiou

PhD Candidate, Research Assistant and HDR Representative

Joanne Papageorgiou is a PhD Candidate at Griffith University, where her doctoral research investigates violent, alcohol-related offending trajectories in Queensland’s Safe Night Precincts, assessing the effectiveness of individual-level interventions aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm in Night-Time Entertainment Precincts. By linking a range of law enforcement and health datasets, her research provides new insights into the social and financial costs of violence, with direct impact to policy. She has presented her research at an international conference.

Joanne has professional experience working in both Corrections and Health agencies. She has worked within the Department for Correctional Services in a range of policy, project, and compliance roles. Prior to this, she held administrative and data-focused roles in hospital settings, where she supported clinical teams and contributed to patient care operations.

Beyond her doctoral studies, Joanne is an experienced research assistant within the Griffith Criminology Institute, where she has contributed to government reviews of Safe Night Precincts, led fieldwork in nightlife settings, worked on meta-analyses, prepared ethics and public health applications and assisted writing literature reviews. In addition to her research, Joanne is a sessional academic in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She has tutored and marked for a range of criminology and psychology subjects.

• Systematic literature reviews
• Policy analysis
• Preparation of government reports and briefs
• Data analysis