Meet the team who make up the VRPP
Our team members at the Violence Research Prevention Program have a wide range of expertise.
Follow the links to our researchers' Griffith Experts profiles to find out more about our individual strengths and research candidate supervision.
Director
Professor Patrick O'Leary
Professor O’Leary has worked in the area of child protection and domestic violence for more than twenty years. He has published widely and successfully led large national and international research grants on survivors of sexual violence and violence against women and children.
Members
- Dr Kathleen Baird – School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Professor Michelle Barker – Department of Business Strategy and Innovation
- Dr Sara Branch – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Associate Professor Bruce Buchan – School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
- Professor Lesley Chenoweth – School of Human Services and Social Work
- Professor Kathleen Daly – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Professor Sharon Dawe – School of Applied Psychology
- Professor Susan Dennison – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Associate Professor Grant Devilly – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Dr Amanda Duffy – School of Applied Psychology
- Dr Li Eriksson – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Professor Mark Finnane – Griffith Criminology Institute/School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science Dr Lyn Francis – School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Dr Robyn Holder – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Professor Ross Homel AO – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Dr Samantha Jeffries – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Professor Mark Kebbell – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Associate Professor Benoit Leclerc – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Professor Wendy Moyle – Centre for Health Practice Innovation
- Associate Professor Tara McGee – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Dr Samara McPhedran – Violence Research and Prevention Program
- Professor Drew Nesdale – School of Applied Psychology
- Ms Zoe Rathus AM – Griffith Law School
- Dr Tasha Riley – Griffith Institute of Educational Research
- Professor Boni Robertson – Office of Indigenous Community Engagement, Policy and Partnerships
- Dr Yorick Smaal – School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
- Professor Philip Stenning – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Professor Clare Tilbury – Leneen Forde Chair of Child Protection Research, School of Human Services and Social Work
- Dr Carleen Thompson – Griffith Criminology Institute
- Professor Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck – School of Applied Psychology
Associate members
- Professor Myrna Dawson – Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Guelph University
- Associate Professor Holly Johnson – Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa
- Dr Siobhan O'Dwyer – University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter
- Dr Shannon Spriggs-Murdoch – Mentors in Violence Prevention