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Associate Professor

Mary Iliadis

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Cyber Research and Innovation Centre

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Cyber Research and Innovation Centre
  • +61 3 924 46063 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Dr Mary Iliadis is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Deakin University, and co-founder and co-convenor of the Deakin Network Against
Gendered Violence.

A/Prof Iliadis is recognised for her research on legal and non-legal regulation and responses to domestic, family and sexual violence. She pioneered the first transnational study on victim-focused reforms that offer victim-survivors of sexual violence enhanced rights to participation and information in criminal justice systems across Australia, England and Ireland. Her work is violence- and trauma-informed, and employs culturally safe and
responsive principles to ensure and prioritise victim-survivors' wellbeing.

A/Prof Iliadis leads several competitively funded research projects in the areas of trauma-informed responses to sexual offence victim-survivors through the role of independent legal representation to safeguard private information from use in the courtroom (medical/counselling records, prior sexual experiences, digital communications). She is also researching how technologies are weaponised to perpetrate violence, as well as harnessed by advocates, victim-survivors and practitioners to enhance responses to gendered violence. This includes exploring how police body-worn cameras are used in domestic and family violence callouts; whether CCTV provides safety and security to victim-survivors; and the nature and extent of technology-faciliated abuse in the Pacific (Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu).

A/Prof Iliadis has a strong track record of high impact publications that have informed national and international commissions of inquiry, including Northern Ireland's Gillen Review into Sexual Offences (2021), Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce: Hear Her Voice (2022), Royal Commission into Family Violence (2016) and the Victorian Law Reform Commission's report on Improving the Justice System Response to Sexual Offences (2021), among others.

Research Groups
Co-founder and co-convenor of the Deakin Network Against Gendered Violence (DNAGV).

Stream lead for 'Promoting Cyber Safe Behaviours' at Deakin's Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust (CREST).

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Associate Professor
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Monash University

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Criminology
  • Legal systems
  • Law in context

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Deakin Cyber Research and Innovation Centre