ProfessorKate Seear

Professor, Law

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School

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

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    Drug Checking in Victoria
    1 Jan 2024
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    Students for Sensible Drug Policy
    1 Jan 2016
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
    1 Jan 2021
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship
    1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Hepatitis Australia Research and Clinical Advisory Group
    16 Jun 2025
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    National Hepatitis C Testing Policy Expert Reference Committee
    1 Jan 2023
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Expert Advisory Panel for the Health+Law Project
    1 Jan 2023
  • JOURNAL EDITORIAL ROLE
    Health Sociology Review
    1 Jan 2022
    Associate Editor
  • JOURNAL EDITORIAL ROLE
    Contemporary Drug Problems
    1 Jan 2020
    Joint editor-in-chief (with Professor kylie valentine, UNSW)
  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    Australian Research Council
    1 Jan 2016
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Gave expert evidence to the Victorian Inquiry into Workplace Drug Testing
    1 Jan 2024
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Gave expert evidence to the Australian Law Reform Commission reference on justice responses to sexual offences
    1 Jan 2024
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Gave expert evidence to the Victorian Inquiry into cannabis use
    1 Jan 2021
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Gave expert evidence to the Victorian consultation on the abolition of the offence of public drunkenness
    1 Jan 2019
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Gave expert advice to the New South Wales Special Commission of Inquiry into the drug 'ice'
    1 Jan 2019
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Gave expert evidence to the Western Australia Select Committee into Alternate Approaches to Reducing Illicit Drug Use and its Effects on the Community
    1 Jan 2019
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Expert contributor to high level, invitation only drug summit on the Canadian drug overdose crisis, Canadian (2019) in British Columbia
    1 Jan 2019
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Gave expert evidence to the Commonwealth Senate Community Affairs Committee Drug Testing Trial Bill
    1 Jan 2018
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Expert contributor to invitation only Australia21 Roundtable (2018) on drug law, at Victorian Parliament
    1 Jan 2018
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Gave expert evidence to the Victorian Law Reform Commission reference on victims of crime
    1 Jan 2017
  • PROMOTION / TENURE ASSESSMENT
    Promotion and tenure assessment
    1 Aug 2025 - 15 Aug 2025
  • PROMOTION / TENURE ASSESSMENT
    Promotion and tenure assessment
    1 Mar 2023 - 20 Sep 2025
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Law Literature and Humanities Association
    1 Jan 2024