Rate My Professor Kristin Reimer

Kristin Reimer is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Education, Culture and Society, Faculty of Education at Monash University. A Canadian scholar involved in the restorative justice and restorative practice movement since the late 1990s, she completed her Ph.D. in 2015 at the University of Ottawa with a thesis titled Restorative Justice as a Window into Relationships: Student Experiences of Social Control and Social Engagement in Scotland and Canada. This work earned her the T.B. Greenfield Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2015 and the 2017 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Field of School Climate. She also received the Margaret Haughey Master’s Award in 2010 for her master’s degree. Reimer served as a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University from 2016, contributing to teacher education courses such as EDF3096 Fostering Classroom Culture and Restorative Justice Education: Creating and Maintaining Supportive and Safe Learning Environments.

Reimer's research centers on social engagement and relational approaches in education, with a focus on restorative justice, inclusive education, educational access, student voice, and cultural dynamics in schools. Her seminal book, Adult Intentions, Student Perceptions: How Restorative Justice is Used in Schools to Control and to Engage, published in 2019 by Information Age Publishing, examines educator intentions and student experiences in restorative justice implementations. Key publications include Relationships of control and relationships of engagement: how educator intentions intersect with student experiences of restorative justice (Journal of Peace Education, 2019), Educating on the margins: young people's insights into effective alternative education (International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020), and An exploration of the implementation of restorative justice in an Ontario public school (Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2011). She led projects such as 25 Years In: Case Studies of Restorative Justice in Australian Schools (2019) and Out-teach Mobile Education Evaluation (2017), and received the Transformative Teacher Educator Fellowship in 2018. Her scholarship aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals including quality education, gender equality, and peace, justice, and strong institutions, influencing restorative practices in Australian schools.