MAEVe Seminar Videos
Dr Nina Hudson
Exploring Judicial Court-Craft in Sentencing Offenders for Intimate Partner Violence
Recorded on Monday 26 May 2025. Hosted by Professor Heather Douglas.
Professor Nicole Westmarland
Spiking – Broadening Understandings to Improve Research and Responses
Recorded on Thursday 17 April 2025. Hosted by Dr Stephen Burrell.
Professor Sharon Cowan
The Use of Sexual History Evidence and ‘sensitive Private Data’ in Scottish Sexual Offences Trials
Recorded on Monday 31 March 2025. Hosted by Professor Heather Douglas.
Professor David Gadd
Is Consent as Simple as Tea? Psychosocial Reflections on Men’s Accounts of Sexual Violence Perpetration
Recorded on Monday 24 February 2025. Hosted by Dr Stephen Burrell.
Professor Shazia Choudhry
Emerging Issues on Child Contact and Domestic Violence Internationally
Recorded on Thursday 5 December 2024. Hosted by Professor Belinda Fehlberg.
Dr Stephen Burrell
Violence Against Women and the Destruction of the Environment: Preventing Men’s Overlapping Violences
Recorded on Monday 9 September 2024. Hosted by Professor Stuart Ross.
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Shannon Harvey
Disruptive Bodies: Interrogating the Gender Binary in Family Violence Policy & Practice
Recorded on Monday 15 July 2024. Hosted by Charlene Edwards.
The Hon. Marcia Neave AO & The Hon. Mordecai Bromberg
The ALRC’s Sexual Violence Reference – Issues and Dilemmas
Recorded on Monday 24 June 2024. Hosted by Professor Heather Douglas.
Associate Professor Bianca Fileborn
Sexual Violence and LGBTQ+ communities
Recorded on Monday 27 May 2024. Hosted by Associate Professor Laura Tarzia.
Honorary Professor Cathy Humphreys, Dr Margaret Kertesz and Van Callaly
The Intersections of Domestic and Family Violence with Substance Use: Breaking down the silos
Recorded on Monday 29 April 2024. Hosted by Professor Kelsey Hegarty.
Commissioner Micaela Cronin
Measuring Progress Towards the Objectives of the National Plan: A Perspective
Recorded on Monday 25 March 2024. Hosted by Professor Cathy Humphreys.
Professor Rachel Condry
Matricide as a Form of Femicide & the Politics of Visibility
Recorded on Monday 26 February 2024. Hosted by Associate Professor Heather Douglas.
Sylvie Leber and Kendra Russell
Advocacy, Activism and Practice Born From Lived Experience of Sexual Assault
Recorded on Monday 4 December 2023. Hosted by Associate Professor Kristin Diemer.
Associate Professor Leonie Tanczer and Dr Nikolaos Koukopoulos
Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Preliminary Findings of a Global Delphi Study
Recorded on Monday 27 November 2023. Hosted by Professor Heather Douglas.
Dr Lata Satyen
Cultural Factors in the Prevalence of Family Violence and Associated Help-Seeking Behaviour
Recorded on Monday 16 October 2023. Hosted by Lauren Bellamy.
Professor Kyllie Cripps
Indigenous women and intimate partner homicide in Australia: confronting the impunity of policing failures
Recorded on Monday 4 August 2023. Hosted by Professor Heather Douglas.
Professor John Devaney
Children living with domestic abuse
How many young children live with domestic abuse, and what is the consequence for their safety and socio-emotional development?
Recorded on Monday 3 July 2023. Hosted by Professor Eva Alisic.
Professor Silvia Krumm
Victimisation of mental health service users
Violence against mental health service users is a global problem. What are their experiences and what is the role of psychiatric services?
Recorded on Tuesday 20 June 2023. Hosted by Professor Kelsey Hegarty.
Professor Leigh Goodmark
Imperfect Victims: Criminalised Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism
The criminal legal system punishes victims of violence from childhood to adulthood. Only abolition feminism can stop this punishment.
Recorded on Wednesday 17 May 2023. Hosted by Professor Heather Douglas.
Associate Professor Kristin Diemer
Using the 2023 PSS and NCAS data for monitoring progress to reduce violence against women
Australia is a global leader in reducing violence against women. We have robust and sophisticated tools for monitoring this progress, so how can we use them?
Recorded on Monday 3 April 2023. Hosted by Professor Cathy Humphreys.
Report Launch – Technology-facilitated Abuse in Relationships
The use of story-completion method to engage those using harmful tech behaviours
A seminar and launch for a new report, featuring Dr Renee Fiolet, Dr Cynthia Brown, Dr Dana McKay and Associate Professor Bridget Harris.
Recorded on Monday 27 March 2023. Hosted by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and MAEVe.
Professor Manjula Datta O'Connor
Family violence, mental health and trauma among South Asian migrant women
The experiences of South Asian victim-survivors centred around dowry exploitation and related violence with profound mental health impacts.
Recorded on Monday 8 March 2023. Hosted by Professor Cathy Vaughan.
Melbourne Research Alliance to End Violence against women and their children (MAEVe) runs regular seminars throughout the year.
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