Nicole L. Asquith

(She/They)

Over the last 20 years, Professor Nicole L. Asquith has worked as a practitioner and academic in the two areas of interpersonal violence and policing vulnerability. Her doctoral research looked at the forensic possibilities of hate speech in hate crime, and was later extended through the analysis of 100,000 hate crimes reported to the London Metropolitan Police Service. She currently works with Australian policing and criminal justice agencies to address the issues raised by violent victimisation, and responding to victims', offenders' and practitioners' vulnerabilities. In addition to her academic roles, she is the Convenor of the Australian Hate Crime Network, and Co-Convenor of the Tasmanian Prejudice Related Violence Working Group.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Research and Policy Officer, Tasmanian Family and Sexual Violence Alliance
  • 2025–present
    Adjunct professor, Queensland University of Technology
  • 2020–2024
    Director, Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies
  • 2014–2020
    Associate Professor, Western Sydney University

Education

  • 2004 
    Melbourne, PhD

Contact Nicole for

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  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision