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Sexual Health Symposium - Intimate Partner Violence

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Thursday, November 9, 2017
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Menzies Theatrette

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This session will focus on an Introduction to strategies for prevention of IPV developed from knowledge about perpetrators; Knowledge of on-line interactive tools for assisting women experiencing IVP; Awareness of how a restorative justice approach to cases of sexual assault operates as an alternative to going to court


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A/Prof Bebe Loff
Director
Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights, Monash University

Victim-Centered Community-Based Restorative Justice Pilot for Sexual Violence

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM

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Biography

Bebe Loff is the Director of Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She is a lawyer by discipline. She was a founding member of "Women Against Rape" and volunteered with the Rape Crisis Centre in the 1970s, prior to government funding being made available for services for survivor-victims.
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A/Prof Laura Tarzia
Co-Lead, Sexual and Family Violence Program
The University Of Melbourne

Using Online Interactive Tools to Support Women in Unhealthy or Unsafe Relationships

11:05 AM - 11:25 AM

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Biography

Laura Tarzia is a sociologist and an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne and the Centre for Family Violence Prevention, The Royal Women’s Hospital. Her work focuses on sexual violence against women, particularly intimate partner sexual violence and reproductive coercion, as well as the use of technology as a form of early intervention and support. Laura’s work is primarily qualitative, with a growing focus on mixed-methods and co-design. She was lead investigator on the PROSPER Study, which explored the prevalence and mental health impacts of sexual violence in women attending general practice, and an investigator on the WITH Study focusing on women’s pathways to safety and care after sexual violence and mental health issues. She is currently funded by the ARC to develop a world-first, trauma-informed website (Beyond Silence) to raise awareness and encourage help-seeking in women experiencing intimate partner sexual violence. She previously coordinated the ARC-funded I-DECIDE project which developed and evaluated an online healthy relationship tool and safety decision aid for women experiencing domestic violence.
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Dr Louise Stone
Senior Lecturer
Australian National University

"My world is broken and will never be the same" a qualitative study into sexual abuse of doctors by doctors

11:25 AM - 11:45 AM

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Louise Stone is a GP, medical educator and qualitative researcher with a clinical, research and teaching interest in mental health. In the last three years, she has led a research program exploring the lived experience of young doctors who have been sexually assaulted by colleagues.
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Discussion

11:45 AM - 12:05 PM

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