Dr Nina Hudson3
1Tasmania Law Reform Institute, University of Tasmania (UTAS), Hobart, Australia, 2Independent Research Consultant, Belair, Australia, 3Psychiatry, Psychology and Law Editorial Team, Belair, Australia
Biography:
Dr Nina Hudson is a socio-legal empirical researcher, with a background in law and criminology. Nina's doctorate in law at UTAS was a study of judicial court-craft in communicating sentencing decisions to intimate partner violence offenders. In addition to her Senior Research Fellow role, Nina provides judicial education in the National Judicial College of Australia’s family violence program. A member of the Psychiatry, Psychology and Law editorial team since 2016, Nina co-edited a 2024 special issue on judicial and lawyer wellbeing and stress and convened two symposia on the topic at the 2024 ANZAPPL Congress.
This symposium will comprise an in-depth examination of emergent issues and perspectives from the latest research on judicial wellbeing and stress. The symposium will feature presentations from the cross-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary team undertaking the ARC-funded National Judicial Wellbeing Project (the largest empirical Australian survey to date on judicial wellbeing). Presentations will explore a wide range of topics on wellbeing and stress in judicial work, with a particular focus at the intersection of psychology and law and include quantitative and qualitative data drawn from surveys and interviews with Australian judicial officers. Further, a discussion/reflection session is proposed, including perspectives from those with relevant professional experience and intersecting disciplinary research expertise. The symposium will therefore present and explore findings from the latest research and enable reflection on their impact, interplay and implications from relevant interdisciplinary perspectives. Building on the strengths of the 2024 ANZAPPL Congress symposiums on judicial and lawyer wellbeing and stress, this symposium will provide fresh and deeper insights that focus on judicial officers and their work in the context of its significance within justice responses in a changing society.