Giselle Woodley

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Dr Giselle Woodley is a sexologist and works as a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research fellow at the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Australia. Giselle explores issues pertaining to sexuality, sexual violence, pornography, sexuality education, intimate communications, AI, image-based abuse, digital censorship and young people.

Giselle is a co-founder of Bloom-Ed (https://www.bloom-ed.org/) a Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) advocacy group, and she is particularly interested in the benefits of RSE and real solutions that work in relation to these issues, which ultimately increase individual wellbeing, support healthy relationships, and reduce sexual violence.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
  • 2025–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Edith Cowan University
  • 2022–2025
    Research Assistant, Curtin University
  • 2017–2023
    Sessional Academic, Curtin Unviersity

Grants and Contracts

  • 2026
    Working with teens to co-design a porn literacy program that mitigates harm
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council Discovery Linkage Project
  • 2025
    Teen-informed strategies to counter sexual image abuse and sextortion
    Role:
    Research Fellow
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council Discovery Project
  • 2020
    Adolescents’ perceptions of harm from accessing online sexual content
    Role:
    PhD Candidate
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council Discovery Project

Professional Memberships

  • Society of Australian Sexologists

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