Global Immersion Guarantee (‘GIG’) – Paula is the Country Coordinator for the Fiji GIG program. She regularly takes groups of approximately 80 students to Fiji to learn about the impacts of climate change and how Fiji is trying to address this crisis.
Learn more about this experience on Monash Lens:
- The role Fijian youth are playing in combating climate change in the Pacific
- Climate and culture lessons from the Pacific Islands
Queer judgments – This project uses queer theory to rewrite court decisions. This work is inspired by the pioneering Feminist Judgments project and seeks to highlight how stereotypes and biases around sexual orientation and gender identity impact judges and the outcome courts achieve.
Protecting the rights of trans and gender diverse people – This project involves empirical research with the trans community to identify their priorities and develop human rights informed responses that meet their needs. This research is highly topical given the vilification that this vulnerable minority is currently being subjected to in both the US and Australia.
Summer School on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Human Rights – In her capacity as Director of Executive Education in the Monash Law Faculty, Paula is exploring establishing this specialist human rights program, which would be modelled on the Leiden University program that Paula teaches into.
Professor Paula Gerber 