Violence and victims

Graduates of our programs find rewarding work making meaningful change for individuals and families in fields such as:

• victim of crime support services,
• court support roles,
• domestic and family violence practitioners, and
• advocacy and policy change.

Several of our programs provide study pathways into further qualifications and careers such as in forensic psychology or counselling.

Our teachers and researchers include leading national and international experts in areas such as:

• domestic and family violence policy,
• case work,
• law reform and prevention,
• sexual violence, harassment and emerging forms of technology facilitated abuse, and
• victimisation that occurs through institutions, justice settings, and policy processes.

• Professor Anastasia Powell (Family violence, sexual violence, technology-facilitated abuse, digital criminology)
• Professor Georgina Heydon (sexual assault, family violence, forensic interviewing, forensic linguistics)
• Associate Professor Brianna Chesser (sexual violence, legal responses, therapeutic responses)
• Dr Gemma Hamilton (sexual assault, family violence, forensic interviewing)
• Dr Lisa Harris (family violence, client case work, police and policy practice)
• Dr Peta Malins (family violence policing, drug policing, state harm, neocolonialism, prison abolition, transformative justice)
• Dr Joni Meenagh (sexual violence, LGBTIQ+ rights and inclusion, policy and practice reform)
• Sharon Simon (Industry Fellow in family violence, workforce development)
• Rebecca Hiscock (sex work reforms, gender-based violence, crime prevention, policy change)
• Jess Findling (family violence, diversity and inclusion, policy and law reform)
• Alasdair Henry (institutional child abuse, survivor advocacy and activism)
• Jarryd Bartle (sexual consent, law reform)