Dr Phillipa Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW. Dr Evans worked for over 18 years’ as a social worker in clinical, policy and academic roles across a variety of contexts including youth justice, child protection and mental health. Dr Evans successfully obtained her PhD examining effective methods of challenging pro-criminal attitudes and behaviours of justice involved young people. Dr Evans is currently working on an ARC linkage grant examining the effectiveness of a training and coaching program for youth justice custodial staff. This study aims to increase the interpersonal and behaviour management skills of youth justice staff through specialist training, coaching and supervision.