• Professor and Co-Lead of the Sexual and Family Violence Program at the Department of General Practice & Primary Care, The University of Melbourne

Laura is Professor and Co-Lead of the Sexual and Family Violence Program at the Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne. She is also Director of the NHMRC funded RESTORE Centre of Research Excellence, which aims to transform health services so that they restore wellbeing and enhance access to healing for survivors of sexual violence. Her research interests include sexual violence, reproductive coercion and abuse, and intimate partner violence.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Professorial fellow, The University of Melbourne
  • 2021–2024
    Associate professor, The University of Melbourne
  • 2017–2020
    Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne
  • 2013–2017
    Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
  • 2011–2013
    Research fellow, La Trobe University

Education

  • 2009 
    The Unversity of Melbourne, PhD
  • 2004 
    The University of Melbourne, Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Sociology)
  • 2003 
    The University of Melbourne, Graduate Dioloma in Arts (Sociology)
  • 2002 
    The University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Creative Arts

Contact Laura for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision