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Dr Faith Gordon is an Associate Professor in Law and Deputy Associate Dean of Research at the ANU College of Law, The Australian National University. She has previously held academic positions at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Westminster and Monash University. Faith is the Director of the Interdisciplinary International Youth Justice Network which she established in 2016 and a co-founder and co-moderator of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology's Thematic Group on children, young people and the criminal justice system. She is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Information Law & Policy Centre, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London and Justice and Technoscience Lab, School of Regulation and Global Governance. Faith has international expertise and research experience in youth justice; media representations; children’s rights; criminal law; digital technologies; media regulation.
Faith was lead researcher on large-scale ESRC Knowledge Exchange Project: Identifying and Challenging the Negative Media Representation of Children and Young People in Northern Ireland, which involved over 170 children and young people, as well as industry professionals and youth advocates. She was also Co-I on a research project on Older Victims of Crime and Crime Clearance Rates, funded by the Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland. Faith has also been a researcher for The Hillsborough Independent Panel; the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative; Save the Children and the Children’s Law Centre in Northern Ireland. She is a former Trustee of Headliners UK, a youth and media charity.
Faith’s current research is funded by the Australian Research Council, the Australasian Institute for Judicial Administration and the Society of Legal Scholars (UK).
Faith’s first sole-authored monograph: Children, Young People and the Press in a Transitioning Society: Representations, Reactions and Criminalisation, was published as part of the Socio-Legal Series, Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. She has co-edited a collection on Leading Works in Law and Social Justice for Routledge’s Leading Works in Law series published in 2021. Faith has extensively published peer-reviewed articles and book reviews as well as book chapters in edited collections. She also sits on a number of international editorial boards, such as Communications Law and is book review editor for the journal – Law, Technology, Humans.
Faith has recently published on the topics of lifelong anonymity and pre-charge identification of minors in the digital age. Her research on police release of children’s images has been referred to by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (2015), in the Northern Ireland High Court, the UK Court of Appeal (2019) and the Youth Court in Aotearoa New Zealand (2021). Faith's research on online harms was referred to by the UK Joint Committee on Draft Online Safety Bill, House of Lords (2021).
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