Volunteers needed! Please share and RT widely! If you are a queer victim-survivor of intimate partner violence OR a support service practitioner with experience helping queer victims-survivors, please consider completing these surveys below.

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!

Spyware can be weaponised in the context of #DFV #DomesticViolence #FamilyViolence, as vendors well know. Thx Patrick Begley for highlighting this issue & calls to address the sale, promotion and use of this technology smh.com.au/national/keep-… @[email protected] WESNET Australia

Participants Needed! If you have 15-20 minutes spare today please consider completing our surveys. Your responses will help inform how we understand the help-seeking needs of queer victims-survivors of intimate partner violence. Scan the QR code or click the link below.

The testimonies heard so far are powerful accounts of queer victims-survivors’ experiences of IPV, but more volunteers are needed! If you would prefer you can sign up for a 1-on-1 interview, please email us for more details @ [email protected] Please share widely!

Must read #OpenAccess (free) article out from Jess Woolley of Deakin Criminology Deakin Network Against Gendered Violence in Policing and Society Taylor & Francis Research Insights She explores the #Policing of perpetrator suicide threats (as a form of #CoerciveControl) in #DFV #FamilyViolence #DomesticViolence cases tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“it is important to develop further understanding as to how suicide threats are addressed by police as they attend incidents of family violence, especially given that suicide threats may be weaponised as a form of coercive control” | Deakin University’s Jess Woolley tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Additional online workshops have been added. Register here shorturl.at/rtbsO #DFV #Victoria #VAWG

A hugely important topic discussed fantastically by Jess Woolley in this Conversation piece! Read the piece below and the open access journal article at tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My first piece for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand has been published. It explores my recent research regarding how police respond to suicide threats by perpetrators of family violence. I examine how suicide threats challenge police, consequences of current processes, and future considerations.

Suicide threats are a weapon of family violence. How can police balance mental health needs with protecting victims? By Jessica Woolley theconversation.com/suicide-threat…

Great opportunity to work with the brilliant Dr Freya McLachlan 🌟

Looking for participants to take part in a study on #bodyimage, birth experiences, and mental health. Click here to take part researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_88…

MonashGFV are completing a project for the Attorney General’s Department. We are keen to talk to advocates or practitioners who have professional insights into and have supported victim-survivors of family, domestic #DV #FSV or #SexualViolence when encountering police

Grateful to have attended #ANZSOC2024 in Ōtautahi, and excited to have been awarded the 2024 PhD Candidate Award for my article ‘Policing perpetrator suicide threats in family violence cases: competing priorities and contemporary challenges’ (read here: tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/10…)