He is Director of Research in the School of Law, and is a member of the Health Law Research Centre: http://www.hlrc.qut.edu.au/. Ben is also a member of the ‘Rights and welfare of young people’ Research Program in the QUT Children and Youth Research Centre: http://www.cyrc.qut.edu.au/. In 2013 he was appointed to the editorial board of Child Abuse and Neglect. He gained his PhD in 2002, studying the law of children’s criminal responsibility. He has published over 50 scholarly works, mostly on issues concerning children and the law. He is now co-editing a major new book on mandatory reporting laws, which will be published in 2014. Current major research areas involve four key topics concerning law and children: