The Criminology Postgraduate Society
Mens Rea aims to:
- encourage social interaction of students within the Criminology Department,
- provide academic support to fellow postgraduates and foster communication of research ideas and collaborations,
- represent Criminology Department Postgraduate students to the Department, Faculty and University, and hence enhance the academic and professional life of the Criminology Department Postgraduate students.
Mens Rea: The Criminology Postgraduate Society welcomes all criminology postgraduate students to sign up for membership - download the membership form here, or collect one from the criminology general office. Please return completed applications to Mens Rea, care of the criminology general office.
The committee also welcomes suggestions from members regarding events they would like to be held; please email suggestions to: Ruth Liston: r.liston@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au or Dave McDonald: d.mcdonald@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Pub nights, Movie Night and Trivia Night dates to be announced soon!
What else do we do? 
Since Mens Rea was established in 2002, criminology postgrads have enjoyed pub nights, research forums, picnics, BBQs, cocktails parties, movie nights, dinners, trivia nights, a wine tour, and four major conferences representing delegates from across Australia.
Past Mens Rea conferences
- The Challenge of Our Times
- Transgressions: Intersections of culture, crime and social control (2005)
- Crime Revisited: Deviance and Conformity in the 21st Century (2004) conference program
- Space, Place and Crime (2003) conference program
- Fusion and Diversity (2002) conference program
Minutes of Committee Meetings and Constitution
- Minutes of the 2004 AGM, August 25 2004
- Minutes of the June 22, 2004 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the June 18, 2004 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the June 9, 2004 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the September 1, 2003 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the August 20, 2003 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the May 12, 2003 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the April 30, 2003 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the February 12, 2003 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the November 13, 2002 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the October 23, 2002 Committee Meeting
- Minutes of the October 9, 2002 Committee Meeting
- Read the society's constitution
Read the minutes of the Inaugural General Meeting
Office bearers
- President: Ruth Liston
- Secretary: Nicole Bluett-Boyd
- Treasurer: Ryan Czwarno
Committee members:
- Haley Clark
- Dave McDonald
- Nesam McMillan
- Clare Spivakovski
- Rhys Thompson
The committee also welcomes suggestions from members who wish to propose new events; please email suggestions to:
Ruth Liston: r.liston@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
or
Dave McDonald: d.mcdonald@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au