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ProfessorKate Seear

Professor, Law

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School

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  • Professor, Law
    Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Drug law and policy

Harm reduction and the law

Stigma and the law

Family violence 

Legal ethics

Science and Technology Studies

Feminist theory

Posthumanism and new materialisms

GRANTS

  • FELLOWSHIP
    Reducing drug-related harms in Australia through a new Reform Collaboratory
    1 Apr 2026 - 30 Apr 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kate Seear
    ARC Industry Fellowships Program - Mid-Career - IM250100211 - $1,181,367.00
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Diverse Voices, Varied Justice: Police responses in family violence intervention orders
    Victoria Law Foundation6 Jan 2025
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) use in pregnancy: Treatment engagement and perspectives on barriers to recovery
    Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA)1 Jan 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • MacLean S,
    • Johnson A,
    • Seear K
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    A BBV and STI stigma reduction toolkit for the Victorian health sector: An implementation project
    Department of Health Victoria1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Seear K,
    • Farrugia A,
    • Lenton E,
    • Ellard J
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Trial of a universal precautions approach to stigma reduction in the BBV field
    Commonwealth Department of Health1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Treloar C,
    • Seear K,
    • Stoove M,
    • Farrugia A,
    • Wiseman V
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Improving social, economic and health outcomes through drug policy reforms
    4 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kate Seear
    ARC Fellowships - Future Fellowships - FT200100099 - $10,325.38
  • FELLOWSHIP
    A world-first ‘post-human rights’ framework for drug policy: Improving social, economic and health outcomes
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Seear K
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Addressing hepatitis C-related discrimination in a post-cure world
    Australian Research Council1 Sep 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Seear K,
    • Fraser S,
    • valentine K,
    • Farrugia A
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Understanding performance and image enhancing drug injecting in Australia
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Fraser S,
    • Moore D,
    • Seear K
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Addiction in the Australian legal system: A sociological analysis
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Seear K
  • TENDER
    Reducing stigma and discrimination for people experiencing problematic alcohol and other drug use
    Queensland Mental Health Commission1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ritter A,
    • Lancaster K,
    • Seear K