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Associate Professor Danielle Tyson

Associate Professor Danielle Tyson is Associate Professor in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Deakin University and a graduate of La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia (BA, Hons in Legal Studies) and the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (PhD in Criminology).  Prior to Deakin, she taught at Criminology at Monash University (2007 – 2016), the University of Brighton, England (2002-2003), and the University of Melbourne (2004 – 2006) and La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia (2007). She has published and presented papers at conferences nationally and overseas on the intersection of gender based violence and the legal system; domestic homicide; homicide law reform; and filicide (the killing of children by a parent or caregiver). In 2010, she was a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence (#csslrv) at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada (go to: www.violenceresearch.ca).

Danielle focuses on gender-based violence, intimate partner homicide, filicide, homicide defences, and law reform. Her victim-centred, interdisciplinary research forges vital collaborations with key stakeholders to provide impactful, evidence-based insights that shape legal policy and benefit the broader community.

Dr Tyson is Co-Director of the Monash Deakin Universities Filicide Research Hub and Co-Founder and Member of the Deakin Network Against Gendered Violence. She is also Co-Facilitator of the bi-annual international conference series Addressing Filicide (previously held at the Monash Prato Centre, Italy, in 2013, 2015, 2017 and in 2019, the Addressing Filicide conference was held at Deakin University Downtown in the heart of Melbourne, Australia for the first time. Click here to access the conference website.

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December 2, 2016

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