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  7. Jen Webb & Wayne Applebee, 19 September 2014

Jen Webb & Wayne Applebee, 19 September 2014

Professor Jen Webb facilitated our inaugural networking event at which Wayne Applebee spoke about the 'Circuit Breaker' program.  This event gave attendees the opportunity to provide feedback on the program; get to know each other; identify research interests; and to explore opportunities for collaboration in an informal setting.

The Circuit Breaker Program was developed to support the rehabilitation of Indigenous prisoners in the corrective services system. It is a diversionary program for at risk Indigenous youth entering the judicial system.

Professor Jenn Webb is the Director of Creative and Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of CanberraProfessor Jen Webb is the Director of Creative and Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design.

Jen is an executive member of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, co-editor of the online journal Axon, co-editor of the Sage Publishers book series Understanding Contemporary Culture, and a member of the Cultural Studies of Australasia Association.

Wayne Applebee, UC CIRI CommitteeWayne Applebee is a Kamilori Elder who currently provides academic training in Social Sciences, Justice Studies and Law at the University of Canberra. Wayne also works as a Sessional Lecturer for Indigenous Studies (he was a former convener of Indigenous units at UC), and is currently doing his PhD looking at Aboriginal people's use of the Internet (paper titled "Strange Estrangement")

Wayne is heavily involved in the Indigenous community and interested, and actively involved, in solving social justice and law issues as they relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.