About

The Australian Dispute Resolution Research Network was founded in 2012 by a group of leading dispute resolution academics from across Australia. It provides a collaborative environment to foster, nurture and enrich high quality research and scholarship.

The Network is inclusive and forward-looking and seeks to bring together emerging, mid-career and established scholars to build excellence in the field and provide peer support. It prides itself on its collegial approach to discussing research and encourages the participation of academics at all stages of their careers.

Network activities are expressly designed to provide a supportive and collegial presentation environment in which meaningful discussion and constructive feedback is provided to the presenter.

WHO ARE WE?

At each annual face to face gathering, some primary responsibilities are allocated to network members for the following year. Stewardship is provided by:

Co-Presidents: Rachael Field and Jonathan Crowe
Past Presidents: John Woodward, Lola Akin Ojelabi, Olivia Rundle, Becky Batagol, Lisa Toohey
Blog Editor: Position is currently vacant (Previously Olivia Rundle, Lisa Toohey, Becky Batagol and Nussen Aisnworth)
2021 Round Table Organisers – Bond University – Jonathan Crowe and Rachael Field

WHAT DO WE DO?

Network activities include maintaining this ADR Research Network blog, a lively Twitter feed @ADRResearch and conducting annual scholarly round tables of work in progress.

Past activities have included a series of phone conferences about work in progress, and the Network is also supports emerging academics with mentoring.

The usual disclaimer applies to the blog – our opinions are those of the individual authors, and do not necessarily represent those of our institutions.

NETWORK ROUND TABLES

The Network held its first symposium at the University of New South Wales in December 2012. Since then we have held round tables at

Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, December 2013 (2nd round table);
RMIT in Melbourne, December 2014 (3rd round table);
University of New South Wales, Sydney in September 2015 (4th round table);
University of Tasmania, Hobart in December 2016 (5th round table);
Legal Issues Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (funded by Monash Law) in December 2017 (6th round table);
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland in December 2018 (7th round table);
Latrobe University, Melbourne, Victoria in December 2019 (8th round table); and
University of Newcastle Law School, Newcastle in February 2021 (9th round table).

FUTURE ROUND TABLES

The 10th round table will be held at Bond University in February 2022.

If you sign up to follow our blog you will be notified about our next round table. This blog is our primary means of communicating with members.

The ADR Research Network can be contacted via the Presidents for 2020, Professors Rachael Field and Jonathan Crowe

Guest blog post proposals are always welcome. Contact Nussen Ainsworth, our Blog Editor in Chief. Our blog reaches over 17,000 individuals per year and has over 25,000 hits – so your blog will be widely read.

Guidelines for our blog include that the ADRRN blog can only be used to share our own or others’ academic work. The blog should not be used to promote our commercial practices in law or dispute resolution.