Graduate research students
Current PhD Candidates

Adele Aria
Thesis: Unsettling and decolonising the dominant paradigm of understanding and defining domestic and family violence (DFV) in Australia: Centring complexity and diversity

Jessica Burley
Thesis: Evaluating ‘success’ for family violence interventions in Victoria.

Monique Failla
Thesis: Understanding Trauma and Re-traumatisation in Perpetrators of Domestic Family Violence in Australian Refugee Families'
VHESIF Scholarship holder

Ciara Farrelly
Thesis: 'Acquired brain injury and responses to perpetrators of family violence'.
VHESIF Scholarship holder

Hannah Petocz
Thesis: 'Technology-Facilitated Dating Violence and Its Impacts on Young Women'
VHESIF Scholarship holder

Laura Vidal
Thesis: An examination of the experience of young women impacted by forced marriage.
Current MA candidates
Nancy Bassett
Thesis: Exploring how Ngaruahine Kaumatua (Māori Elders) can be empowered as decolonizers and catalysts for the cultural revitalization of tikanga, lost culture, language, family roles, values, traditions, symbolism of wahine (women) and ancestral knowledge to develop a collection of cultural strength based historical records.
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Completed PhDs
Dr Ellen Reeves
PhD Thesis: The misidentification of women as predominant aggressors within Victoria's family violence intervention order system.
Year of Completion: 2021