Katharine Gelber

Katharine Gelber is Deputy Executive Dean, and Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She is a Professor of Political Science, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia, a Fellow of the Queensland Academic of Arts and Sciences, and a former ARC Future Fellow (2012-2015). Her expertise is in freedom of speech and speech regulation, with research projects into the operation of hate speech laws (with Prof Luke McNamara), and the ways in which counter-terrorism policies have limited freedom of speech. She is a former president of the Australian Political Studies Association.