Engagement

Engagement

  • In 2025 Dr MinSook Heo, from the National Assembly Research Service of South Korea visited the Melbourne Law school. Dr Heo is leading efforts with Korean parliamentarians to develop new laws and policies related to gendered violence. She is planning to return to South Korea with a strong recommendation to introduce a non-fatal strangulation offence in South Korea. Dr Heo discusses her visit in this video.
  • Heather Douglas and Leah Sharman, Panel participants, Launch of the Non-fatal strangulation Review, Webinar, Queensland Law Reform Commission and CEVAW,  26 November 2024
  • Heather Douglas, ‘Sex, Strangulation and Consent’. presented at Tackling Strangulation: Working together to save lives, Conference of the Institute for addressing strangulation (Manchester) 12 November 2024 (online)
  • Heather Douglas, ‘Legal Responses and Strangulation: Emerging Issues’. Shantiworks, Nonfatal domestic violence strangulation-Learnings from practice symposium, 24 October 2024.
  • Heather Douglas, ‘Non-Fatal Strangulation – New Victorian Law’. Judicial College of Victoria, Twilight series, 29 October 2024.
  • Heather Douglas and Robin Fitzgerald, Social entrapment and the prosecution of strangulation offences,’ webinar, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Qld)  (CPD event) Brisbane, 8 July 2024
  • Heather Douglas, ‘Strangulation, Sex and Consent’, Melbourne Magistrates Court (CPD event), Melbourne,  21 June 2024
  • Heather Douglas and Leah Sharman, ‘Family Violence, Sex, Strangulation and Consent’ presented at Non-Fatal Strangulation Symposium: A National Conversation, hosted by the Red Rose Foundation, 21 February 2024, Brisbane. This presentation was also made to the Health Law and Ethics Network, University of Melbourne, 6 February 2024, Melbourne
  • Book launch: On Tuesday 5 December 2023 the Melbourne Criminal Law Research Forum of Melbourne Law School and the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre launched the book: The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives (OUP 2023). The launch heard from an expert panel including Nina (WEAVERs, The University of Melbourne), Professor Kyllie Cripps (Monash University), The Honourable Marcia Neave AO and Professor Sandra Walklate (University of Liverpool). The launch was facilitated by Professor Heather Douglas (Melbourne Law School) and Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Monash University)
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  • Heather Douglas and Leah Sharman, ‘Domestic violence and the use of non-fatal strangulation in association with sexual abuse.’ kNOwVAWdata workshop, 27 October 2023
  • Heather Douglas, ‘Understanding the risks and dangers of strangulation’, Tasmanian Magistrates Court (CPD event), Hobart,  20 October 2023
  • Heather Douglas, Leah Sharman and Robin Fitzgerald, ‘Domestic violence and the use of non-fatal strangulation in association with sexual abuse’, European Domestic Violence Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 12 September 2023
  • Leah Sharman, Heather Douglas, and Robin Fitzgerald, ‘Sexual Behaviours and Choking/Breath Play: Attitudes and understandings’, European Domestic Violence Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 12 September 2023
  • Heather Douglas and Robin Fitzgerald, ‘The consequences of criminalising domestic violence: A case study of the non-fatal strangulation offence in Queensland, Australia’ European Domestic Violence Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 11 September 2023
  • Leah Sharman, Robin Fitzgerald and Heather Douglas, ‘Criminalisation of Non-fatal Strangulation in Australia: Intended and Unintended Consequences’ Global Meeting of Law and Society: Rage, Reckoning, Remedy, Lisbon (online), 16 July 2022
  • Robin Fitzgerald, Heather Douglas and Leah Sharman, ‘Criminalisation of non-fatal strangulation in Australia: What is prison for?’  Global Meeting of Law and Society: Rage, Reckoning, Remedy, Lisbon (online), 15 July 2022
  • Heather Douglas, Robin Fitzgerald and Leah Sharman, Panel: ‘The Pleasure is all mine’: Non-fatal strangulation, image-based abuse and stealthing as forms of sexual violence and the law.’ Global Meeting of Law and Society: Rage, Reckoning, Remedy, Lisbon (online), 14 July 2022
  • Heather Douglas, ‘Non-fatal Strangulation: Recognition and Legal Response.’ Lead Family Violence Magistrates Workshop, Melbourne,  24 June 2022
  • Heather Douglas, Submission to the Department of Justice, Tasmania, on the proposed non-fatal strangulation offence, 10 February 2022
  • Heather Douglas, Robin Fitzgerald and Leah Sharman, ‘Review of Domestic Violence Deaths Involving Non-Fatal Strangulation’ Coroners Court, Queensland, 8 October 2021
  • Heather Douglas, Robin Fitzgerald and Leah Sharman, ‘A Research program for Non-Fatal Strangulation in Australia’, Strangulation Institute, Training Institute of Strangulation Prevention, San Diego (online)  18 June 2021