Freya McLachlan

Dr Freya McLachlan is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for The Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) at Griffith University. She is a criminologist with a focus on intimate partner femicide and has a PhD from QUT (2023) entitled Intimate partner femicide: Risk factors and the heterogeneity of male-perpetrated IPF in Queensland. Freya's areas of interest include interventions with perpetrators and bystanders of intimate partner violence, domestic homicide and femicide, and feminist approaches to ending violence against women. She holds two undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Criminology and a Master of Criminology. Freya has previously worked at ANROWS examining filicide in Australia and as a lecturer and sessional academic at QUT.