Associate Professor Katharine Gelber

	Academic Position:	Associate Professor in Public Policy
	Qualifications:	PhD (Sydney), Hons (Sydney, BA (Tasmania)
	Office: Telephone: Fax: Email:	565, General Purpose North 3 (#39A) +61 7 3365 2910 +61 7 3365 1388 k.gelber@uq.edu.au

Research Expertise

• Governance and Public Policy
• Australian Politics
• Contemporary Political Theories
• Human Rights

Background

Kath Gelber commenced an appointment as Associate Professor in Public Policy at the University of Queensland in January 2011, after nine years at the University of New South Wales. Her research interest is in human rights, with a particular emphasis on freedom of speech and the regulation of hate speech. In 2011 she was the Australian Expert Witness at a United Nations’ regional meeting discussing States’ compliance with the free speech and racial/religious hatred provisions of international law (specifically, Articles 19 and 20 of the ICCPR). In 2009 she presented the prestigious Mitchell Oration in Adelaide on the topic of 'freedom of speech and its limits' (http://www.eoc.sa.gov.au/eo-resources/events/mitchell-oration-2009). In 2011 her book Speech Matters (UQPress, 2011) was a finalist in the Literature (Non-Fiction) category of the Australian Human Rights Awards.

Projects and Linkages

Kath is a current Australian Research Council Future Fellow on a project on ‘freedom of speech in the post 9/11 era. She is the recipient of several other ARC grants, including the current ARC DP 'The Impact of Hate Speech Laws on Public Discourse in Australia' (2010-2012) with co-CI Professor Luke McNamara (University of Wollongong), and the now-completed ARC DP 'Securing Freedom: Freedom of Political Speech in Australia'.

Professional Activities

Kath Gelber is the Immediate Past President of the Australian Political Studies Association. Kath regularly makes submissions to government enquiries into speech-related matters, including academic freedom and anti-terrorism laws.

Selected Publications

Books

• Panzironi, F & Gelber, K (eds) 2012 (forthcoming). The Capability Approach: Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region, Routledge, Abingdon.
• Gelber, K 2011. Speech Matters: How to Get Free Speech Right, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
• Vromen, A; Gelber,K & Gauja, A 2009. Powerscape: Contemporary Australian Politics, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
• Gelber, K & Stone, Adrienne (eds) 2007. Hate Speech and Freedom of Speech in Australia, Federation Press, Sydney.
• Gelber, K 2002. Speaking Back: The Free Speech versus Hate Speech Debate. John Benjamins Ltd, Amsterdam.

Book Chapters

• Gelber, K 2012 (forthcoming). ‘The Courts’ in R Smith, A Vromen and I Cook (eds). Contemporary Politics in Australia: Theories, Practices and Issues, Cambridge University Press, South Melbourne.
• Gelber, K 2012 (forthcoming). ‘Reconceptualising counter speech in hate speech policy (with a focus on Australia)’, in Herz & Molnar (eds) Regulating Hate Speech: Content, Context, and Remedies, Cambridge University Press, New York.
  Gelber, K 2012 (forthcoming). ‘”Speaking Back” – the likely fate of hate speech policy in the United States and Australia’, in McGowan & Maitra (eds) Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech, Oxford University Press, New York (accepted 26 Aug 2008).
• Gelber, K 2012 (forthcoming). ‘Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach and Freedom of Speech’, in Panzironi, F & Gelber, K (eds). The Capability Approach: Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region, Routledge, Oxford.
• Gelber, K & Panzironi, F 2012 (forthcoming). ‘Introduction’ in Panzironi & Gelber (eds). The Capability Approach: Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region, Routledge, Oxford.
• Gelber, K 2011. ‘The role of the Constitution in major social conflicts’, in Bröhmer, Jürgen (ed). The German Constitution Turns 60: Basic Law and Commonwealth Constitution: German and Australian Perspectives, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main: 129-144.
• Gelber, K 2011. ‘The Courts’ in R Smith, A Vromen and I Cook (eds). Contemporary Politics in Australia: Theories, Practices and Issues, Cambridge University Press, South Melbourne (forthcoming).
• Gelber, K 2011. ‘Religion and Freedom of Speech’, in Hosen and Mohr (eds) Law and Religion in Public Life: The Contemporary Debate, Routledge, Oxford.
• Gelber, K 2011. ‘Reconceptualising counter speech in hate speech policy (with a focus on Australia)’, in Herz & Molnar (eds) Regulating Hate Speech: Content, Context, and Remedies, Cambridge University Press, New York (forthcoming, accepted 22 Jan 2009 
• Gelber, K 2011. ‘”Speaking Back” – the likely fate of hate speech policy in the United States and Australia’, in McGowan & Maitra (eds) What Speech Does, Oxford University Press, New York (forthcoming, accepted 26 Aug 2008).
• Gelber, K 2007. ‘Hate Speech and the Australian legal and political landscape’, in Gelber & Stone (eds) Hate Speech and Freedom of Speech in Australia, Federation Press, Sydney: 2-19.
• Gelber, K 2007. ‘When Are Restrictions on Speech Justified in the War on Terror?’, in Lynch, Macdonald & Williams (eds) Law and Liberty in the War on Terror, Federation Press, Sydney: 138-146.
• Gelber, K 2007. ‘Citizens Engaging and Communicating with Government’, in Sally Young (ed) Government Communication in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne: 270-283.
• Gelber, K 2007. ‘Privileged discourses of hate in Australia and Germany: the Holocaust and the Stolen Generations’, in Russell West-Pavlov (ed) Multicultural Societies and Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Australia and Germany, Rodopie Press, Amsterdam: 91-120.

Journal Articles

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