Affiliated researchers

Faculty of Arts

  • Associate Professor Fay Anderson (School of Media, Film and Journalism)
  • Alexander Avella Archila (Assistant Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics) Areas of expertise: training of interpreters in Family Violence, VR training for interpreters working in Family Violence and training court interpreters in Family Violence.
  • Dr Kathryn Benier (Criminologist, School of Social Sciences) Areas of expertise: victimisation experiences, spatial ecology, and intervention analysis.
  • Dr Kristen Davis (Criminologist, School of Social Science) Areas of expertise: homelessness, housing & social disadvantage and LGBTQI research.
  • Dr Karla Elliott (Sociologist, School of Social Sciences) Areas of expertise: primary prevention; adolescent family violence; men and masculinities; migrant and faith communities.
  • Dr Leah Gerber (Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics) Areas of expertise: training of interpreters in Family Violence, VR training for interpreters working in Family Violence and training court interpreters in Family Violence.
  • Dr Jim Hlavac (Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics) Areas of expertise: policy; training of interpreters in Family Violence, VR training for interpreters working in Family Violence and training court interpreters in Family Violence.
  • Professor Kerry O'Brien (Sociology, School of Social Sciences)
  • Associate Professor Steven Roberts (Sociologist, School of Social Sciences)
  • Dr Shani Tobias (Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics) Areas of expertise: training of interpreters in Family Violence, VR training for interpreters working in Family Violence and training court interpreters in Family Violence.
  • Dr Narelle Warren (Anthropologist, School of Social Sciences) Areas of expertise: Neurological disability; Behaviours of concern and the impact on relationships.

Faculty Art, Design and Architecture

  • Associate Professor Nicole Kalms (Department of Design and founding director of the Monash University XYX Lab) Areas of expertise: Housing for women at-risk of homelessness, Violence against women and the public/private divide.

Faculty of Business and Economics

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

  • Dr Darshini Ayton (Health Services, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology and preventive medicine Alfred Hospital)
  • Dr Susan Baidawi (ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Work) Areas of expertise: Adolescent family violence, impacts of family violence on children and young people, child protection responses to family violence, intergenerational family violence.
  • Associate Professor Lyndal Bugeja (Department of Forensic Medicine) Areas of expertise: Family homicide, family violence death reviews, medico-legal investigation, sexual violence and non-fatal strangulation / neck compression.
  • Professor Belinda Gabbe (Head of the Emergency and Trauma Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine)
  • Professor Jayashri Kulkarni (Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre) Areas of expertise: women's mental health, clinical treatment of survivors of trauma, neurobiological research, early life trauma.
  • Dr Carlyn Muir (Monash University Accident Research Centre) Areas of expertise: health and wellbeing of emergency service workers (including those responding to family violence, injury and violence.
  • Dr Samone McCurdy (Former Deputy Head of Department and Course Coordinator, Department of Social Work. Current Gender Equity Advisor to Victoria Police) Areas of expertise: Gender Mainstreaming; Men, work and gender disadvantage; Sexual Harassment; Family Violence Education; Gender and Policy Analysis and Employment and Gender.
  • Professor Rosemary Sheehan (Department of Social Work)
  • Professor Aron Shlonsky (Department of Social Work) Areas of expertise: Child maltreatment, evidence synthesis, implementation science, quantitative analytics.

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