In 2024, understanding coercive control in an era of criminalisation is crucial. Check out this article by Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr Ellen Reeves, Prof Silke Meyer, and Sandra Walklate featuring insights from 54 Australian women. 📰 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

If you need me, I’ll be over here basking in the hot pink glory of my first book! Flicking through it, taking it for leisurely strolls, giving it some of my kit kat - that’s how much it means to me. Please read, share, engage, critique & cite. It loves the attention, and so do I.

Join us for this event at the University of Liverpool, ‘Responding to Gender-Based Violence in the Global North’. Speakers include Kate Fitz-Gibbon Merseyside's Police Commissioner Emily Spurrell and @LouiseCrowley2 Register here: ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/liver…

It is so wonderful to see Anthony Albanese quoting victim-survivors from our Monash University National Plan Consultation Project in his speech at the International Women's Day parliamentary breakfast this week. 🧵 A thread here on the importance of this inclusion 👇🏼

On March 14th 2024, 3-7pm, ICRU will host the event "Responding to Gender-Based Violence in the Global North": Kate Fitz-Gibbon will speak to her recent book (co-authored by Professor Sandra Walklate Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology) ‘What is to be done about violence against women’ in a keynote.

On March 15th, 2024, 10-11am, ICRU will host Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Dr Ellen Reeves's talk "Informed and safe, or blamed and at risk? Victim-survivors’ experiences of domestic violence disclosure schemes in South Australia". Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

Queensland police are to be given powers to issue on-the-spot DVOs that can last up to 12 months. As we've seen in Tas, this will exacerbate the issue of misidentification. In 2021 I wrote an article cautioning against such reform: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Great to see this podcast episode out. I really enjoyed revisiting my PhD and talking to Clara and Courtney about the misidentification of predominant aggressors in Australia podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fem…

In this study we are inviting queer victims-survivors of intimate partner violence to share their help-seeking behaviours, so that we can better understand the needs of our Australian queer communities. Scan the QR below for more information or DM me!

Fantastic to be in Liverpool presenting on lessons learnt from the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence, & contributing to a panel on the importance of whole of system reform alongside @LouiseCrowley2 & @JeanieBellDPCC. Thank you to Dr Ellen Reeves for organising.

Great to have this (very timely) report published today!

Important research just published, co-authored by Professor Sandra Walklate & Dr Ellen Reeves from Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology @Livunislsj

📢New article from our Clare's Law project! 'Criminal Justice Policy and Victim-Survivor Empowerment: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes in England and Wales'📢 Such a pleasure to work with the lovely Charlotte Barlow #SandraWalklate on this special edition!

🚨 New open access article: Exploring the Outcomes of Divergent Approaches to the Policy Making Process: Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes and Perpetrator Registers in Australia. The article calls for a return to principled policy making processes, underpinned by a

A new report from Dr Ellen Reeves (Dr Ellen Reeves), Prof. Sandra Walklate (Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology) & Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University suggests domestic violence disclosure schemes may not improve safety for victim-survivors of intimate partner violence. Find out more ⤵️ liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-soci…

Released today: Our report presents findings from our analysis of 235 sentencing judgments in cases of male perpetrated intimate partner femicide. We examined system intervention points & perpetrator risk. 👉🏼 Read our report here: bridges.monash.edu/articles/repor…

On September 1st, my friend Holly Story and I will be running a 10k to fundraise for a new bereavement suite at Liverpool Women's Hospital, in memory of my and Joe's twins. If you can spare a bit of money, it would be gratefully received! justgiving.com/page/alice-iev…

Thrilled to be part of this important edited collection. My chapter looks at the barriers to engagement with civil protection order systems for queer victim-survivors.

What is misidentifcation? Dr Ellen Reeves (Dr Ellen Reeves) discusses how the legal system fails victims of domestic violence for ABC News. Read more ⤵️ abc.net.au/news/2024-12-1… @livunihss @livunislsj @livunilawsj