Jane is a social scientist and holds the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice at Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand where she is an Associate Professor and heads the Centre for Restorative Practice (Te Ngāpara). The Centre works to provide rigorous critical scholarship directly supporting the many government sectors in New Zealand using restorative practices including in the youth and adult justice systems, corrections, schools, workplace, health & treatment injury space. The Centre regularly provides advice to organisations using co-design principles to find restorative approaches to the wickedly challenging social justice issues of our times.  Situated within a restorative university, the Centre supports restorative services to staff & students. Jane worked for many years as an academic criminologist after training to practise as a psychologist.