Conduct your research alongside world-class experts
Our research candidates benefit from leading expertise and have access to our state-of-the-art research spaces.
Explore our research themes below and contact us to discuss available study options.
Research themes
We have opportunities for PhD study across a range of themes, including:
- Homicide
- Developmental pathways to violence
- Criminal careers across the lifecourse
- Youth violence and youth delinquency
- Intimate partner violence
- Mental health and violence
- Alcohol/substance misuse and violence.
Research candidates
Research candidates ( PhD and masters) play an important role in the research efforts of Griffith University. Students from across Griffith University are affiliated with the Violence Research and Prevention Program.
| Student name | Supervisors | Project title |
|---|---|---|
| BROWN, Francesca | Professor Mark Kebbell | Assessing risk in internet child sex offenders |
| CHEYNE, Nicola | Associate Professor Susan Dennison Professor Anna Stewart | Stalking: A spatial temporal analysis |
| CHIU, Yi-Ning (Winnie) |
Dr Benoit Leclerc
Professor Stephen Smallbone | Patterns in unsolved sexual offenses against women by strangers |
| DAVEY, Linda | Professor Michael Balfour | Theatre of possibilities: A strengths approach to transformative theatre |
| DOWLING, Christopher |
Dr Benoit Leclerc
Dr Jesse Cale | Sexual offending across the lifecourse |
| GAGIC, Vedran |
Professor Drew Nesdale
Dr Amanda Duffy | Peer group processes in childhood bullying: The application of Social Identity Development Theory |
| LEESON, Sjharn | Dr John Rynne Dr Catrin (Kate) Smith | Violence, penology and human rights: 'prison quality' and what it means for Indigenous female prisoners from remote communities (WA and NT) |
| MARTIN, Kristy |
Professor Mark Kebbell
Dr Michael Townsley Dr Louise Porter | Analyst decision making in criminal intelligence analysis |
| NANCARROW, Heather |
Professor Kathleen Daly
Associate Professor Elena Marchetti | Legal responses to intimate partner violence: Gendered aspirations and racialised realities |
| NARNST, Adam |
Associate Professor Nigel Krauth
Dr Sally Breen | Meat Poetry - Violent dialectics of life and the sublime |
RAYMENT-McHUGH, Susan | Professor Stephen Smallbone Professor Anna Stewart | An investigation of chronic endemic youth sexual violence and abuse |
| WOODLAND, Sarah |
Associate Professor Penelope Bundy
Professor Michael Balfour | Devised drama with women and Indigenous participants in correctional contexts: a Theatre Action Research project |
| Student name | Supervisors | Project title |
|---|---|---|
| BUTTERWORTH, Lee | Professor Mark Finnane Associate Professor Regina Ganter Dr John Richards | Investigating death: The transformation of the Coroner's Office in Queensland |
| DEANDRAGE, Dominique | Professor Ross Homel | Violence in Paradise: The physical, social and perceived environments n a beachside entertainment district |
| ERIKSSON, Li |
Professor Paul Mazezrolle
Dr Hennessey Hayes | Intimate partner homicide and General Strain Theory: Exploring the relationship |
| HASTINGS OWEN, Maureen | Professor Bruce Burton Dr Julie Dunn | Addressing bullying in schools: Strategies, structures and scaffolding |
| IBRAHIM, Nada |
Associate Professor Mohamad Abdalla
Professor Paul Mazerolle | Intimate partner violence in the diverse Australian Muslim community: Exploring attitudes, beliefs and direct involvement |
| KATIC, Nadine (nee McKillop) | Professor Stephen Smallbone Professor Richard Wortley | Prospective longitudinal study of child sex offender recidivism |
| LAPWORTH, Kely | Professor Sharon Dawe Dr Penny Davis | An investigation of aggression in Methamphetamine users |
| MARTIN, Kristy |
Professor Mark Kebbell
Dr Michael Townsley Dr Louise Porter | Analyst decision making in criminal intelligence analysis |
| MEYER, Silke | Professor Paul Mazerolle Dr Elena Marchetti | Understanding the help-seeking decisions of female victims of intimate partner violence |
| PARKER, Richard |
Professor Stephen Smallbone
Professor Richard Wortley | A prospective longitudinal study of child-sex offender recidivism |
| PERDACHER, Elke | Professor Mark Kebbell | Quality of admission in child sexual offenders across the Judicial System: Offenders, victim and offence characteristics |
| WESTERA, Nina | Professor Mark Kebbell | Improving outcomes for rape trials: Does interview format matter? |
Contact us
If you would like to discuss available study options within the VRPP, please contact us