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Dr Samantha Hardy

Samantha Hardy

Sam has a legal background and practiced as a lawyer for some years before moving into conflict resolution, education and training.  She has over twelve years experience in conflict resolution.  Sam has trained university students, lawyers and other professionals in mediation, arbitration, negotiation, conflict management and communication skills. She also has a consultancy practice in facilitation, mediation and conflict coaching.  Sam is a mediator accredited with LEADR and under the National Mediator Accreditation Standards.  Sam has trained as a transformative mediator and is also a CINERGY trained conflict coach.  Sam has provided training, facilitation and coaching services for a range of public and private organisations. 

Sam is an active member of the GLBTI community.  She was a member of the Board of the Tasmanian Council for AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Diseases from 2000 to 2006 and was President for the last year that she was in Tasmania.  She was also heavily involved in the development of the Significant Personal Relationships legislation in Tasmania, culminating in the Relationships Register for same-sex couples in that State.

 

Sam completed a Masters of Laws in 1997, primarily focusing on Trade Practices Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. She completed a Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching at the University of Tasmania and her PhD in 2005. Her PhD investigated how different conflict resolution methods impacted on the health outcomes of people who suffered personal injury.  Sam also has a BA in French.

 

Sam has received a number of teaching awards.  She received a University Teaching Excellence Award in 2003, and a National Carrick Citation for an Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2006. In 2006 she was also appointed a Fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia. Sam is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Legal Education Review, and the Executive of the Australasian Law Teachers’ Association.

 

Qualifications:

  • BA
  • LLB(Hons)
  • LLM
  • PhD
  • Grad Cert (University Learning and Teaching)                               
  • Harvard Advanced Negotiation Course
  • CINERGY Conflict Coaching Course
  • Transformative Mediation Training

Research:

 

Sam is an experienced researcher and has published widely in the area of law and conflict resolution.  She is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research, as well as reviewing and evaluating organisational and government conflict resolution programs and procedures.  Her publications include:

  • SPENCER, D and HARDY, S.  (2009) Dispute Resolution in Australia, 2nd Edition, Thomson.
  • HARDY, S.  (2009) ‘Teaching Mediation as Reflective Practice’.  Negotiation Journal, July.
  • HARDY, S.  (2008) ‘Mediation and Genre’. Negotiation Journal 24(3): 247-268.
  • HARDY, S. and SPENCER, D.  (2008) 8(1) ‘Deal or No Deal: Teaching On-Line Negotiation to Law Students’. (2008) 8(1) QUT Law and Justice Journal 93-117.
  • HARDY, S.  (2007) ‘The Text of Muteness in Personal Injury Litigation’.  Law, Text Culture, 11:317-334.
  • HARDY, S.  (2006) ‘Mediating Personal Injury: Melodrama and Tragedy’.  ADR Bulletin 9(1), September 2006, 1-4.
  • HARDY, S.  (2006) ‘The Text of Muteness in Personal Injury Litigation’.  Passages: Law and Literature Association of Australia Conference Papers.  
  • HARDY, S.  (2004)  ‘Legal Melodramas of Injury and Gender’.  Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 9(2): 23-40.
  • HARDY, S. and MIDDLETON, S.  (2001)  ‘Legal Recognition of Significant Personal Relationships in Tasmania’. University of Tasmania Law Review 20 (2): 159-180.  (60%)  
  • HARDY, S.  (2000-2001) ‘Narrative Theory, Psychology and Law’.  Australian Journal of Law and Society 15: 194-208.  
  • HARDY, S.  (1999)  ‘From Mother to Child’. Australian Journal of Law and Medicine 6: 389-408.
  • HARDY, S.  (1998)  ‘Online Mediation’.  Alternative Dispute Resolution Journal  9: 216-225.