Rate My Professor Hilde Tubex

Tubex spent fifteen years as a researcher and lecturer at the Free University of Brussels, complemented by policy roles as expert advisor to the Council of Europe and advisor on penal policy to the Belgian Minister of Justice. Following her migration to Australia in 2007, she held the position of Team Leader, Research and Evaluation, at the Department of Corrective Services in Western Australia from 2007 to 2011. She commenced her tenure at UWA in 2011 via an ARC Future Fellowship (FT100100627, 2011–2015) entitled “International Experiences, Marginal Populations and a Focus on the Overrepresentation of Indigenous People,” which examined penal cultures across Australian jurisdictions. Notable publications include "Criminalised women: understanding the drivers of growing female imprisonment in Western Australia" (with L. Long, 2026, Current Issues in Criminal Justice), "Stories that matter: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Experiences of the Western Australian criminal legal system" (with L. Bartels et al., 2026, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice), "Throughcare for Indigenous Peoples leaving prison" (2021), and "Women's pathways into prison: Cycles of harm" (with N. Gately, 2025). She reviews for journals including the European Journal of Criminology and Theoretical Criminology, consulted for the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia (2022), and delivered the lecture "Throughcare for Indigenous offenders: Australian research and looking for examples of good practice" (2021). Recent projects feature the Women in Prison Survey and "Mind the gap: A study on the reintegration needs of returning prisoners," supported by WA Criminal Justice Research Grant Fund.