Dr Matthew Maycock

Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia

Matthew Maycock, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University. Matthew is currently Director of the BCrim and BCrim Policing degrees within criminology discipline, while also leading on a range of projects relating to gender diversity and the criminal justice system. Matthew was previously Baxter Fellow in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, University of Dundee, contributing to research methods and theory teaching within the Community Education discipline. Matthew previously worked at the Scottish Prison Service undertaking research often on health, gender and health issues in prison as well as facilitating staff development across a range of areas. Before this Matthew was an Investigator Scientist within the Settings and Organisations Team at SPHSU, University of Glasgow undertaking postdoctoral public health research in Scottish prisons. Throughout various studies, Matthew have consistently worked on inequalities and gender issues, masculinity, transgender and gender diversity communities and social justice more widely being a particular focus. Over the last five years, Matthew has been focusing on research that analyses the experiences of transgender people in custody, culminating in Matthew being one of the editors of the first edited collection published that analyses the experiences of transgender people in prisons globally (published with Routledge in 2024). Additionally, Matthew is one of the CIs of a major recently four year MRFF funded project that will develop and analyse a continuity of care model for transgender people passing through prison systems across Australia and Internationally.

Chontit Chuenurah

Director of the Office for the Bangkok Rules and Treatment of Offenders, Thailand Institute of Justice, Thailand

Annette Bromdal

Associate Professor, UniSQ, Australia

Annette Brömdal (PhD) is an Associate Professor and leads the Sexuality and Gender Research Program Team housed in the UniSQ Centre for Health Research. Their health promotion and rights research focus on bodies, gender and sexuality through co-designing and working in partnerships with LGBTQIA+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy community stakeholders. As an inter/nationally recognised scholar, their research contributes to an important evidence-base utilised by multi-stakeholders to alleviate injustices for diverse LGBTQIA+ communities across societal settings. Annette has contributed to 55+ high-quality research outputs, and have been awarded AUD$6,6Min research/grant funding as Chief/Co-Investigator. They have been invited to deliver trans affirming professional development session to inter/national staff caring for trans persons in prison, provided policy directives to different Departments of Corrections on trans and intersex incarcerated persons in Australia, are currently an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (D1), the International Journal of Transgender Health (D1), and an Editor of the book series Routledge Studies in Gender and the Criminal Legal System. They have had their work cited by the UN report “Mapping of Good Practices for the Management of Transgender Prisoners” (2020), and the recent World Professional Association for Transgender Health's “Standards of Care” Version 8 (SOC-8; 2022). In 2024, Annette was co-awarded the Rosalind Franklin Society Special Award in Science with the article “Developing the ‘Oppression-to-Incarceration Cycle’ of Black American and First Nations Australian Trans Women: Applying the Intersectionality Research for Transgender Health Justice Framework” selected as the best paper of the year in the Journal of Correctional Health Care.