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Personal profile
Biography
Bridget is an interdisciplinary researcher and has published and presented her work in the areas of:
- intimate partner / domestic / family and sexual violence
- technology-facilitated violence, advocacy and justice administration in the context of intimate partner, domestic, family and sexual violence
- violence against women in rural, remote and regional places
- access to justice (including in regional, rural and remote areas, and postcode justice)
She has been invited to advise police and legal bodies on technology-facilitated abuse, stalking and harm and, gender-based violence in regional, rural and remote communities (incidents and experiences; informal and formal responses; technology-facilitated violence and advocacy in non-urban places). Her work in these fields was heavily cited in and used to inform recommendations made by the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence. Bridget's research on technology-facilitated violence has also been used in the formulation of national and international guides, reports and research, including by the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament, Office of Science and Technology. Her work on technology-facilitated violence, gender-based violence, access to justice and rural criminology has informed other government and non-government inquiries as well as policy and practice reforms and recommendations, including in the recent review - The Justice Project - undertaken by the Law Council of Australia (focused on the state of access to justice in the nation).
Nominations and Awards: Bridget competed her PhD thesis (Just Spaces? Community Legal Centres as Places of Law) at Monash University and was the School of Social Sciences candidate nominated for the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Excellence in a PhD thesis. She received the Bruce Mansfield Award for Outstanding Research in her Honours year, undertaken at Macquarie University. In 2016 she received a scholarship to attend the competitive Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship Mentoring Scheme. As an educator, she has also received staff and student nominated teaching awards. In 2017 she received the Vice Chancellor's Performance Award for Service Excellence. In 2019 she won the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology New Scholar Prize. In 2023, with colleagues Dr Zarina Vakhitova, Dr Mary Iliadis, Associate Professors Asher Flynn and Danielle Tyson, she won the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology Outstanding Policing Research Award.
Funded Research (Grants): From 2016-2021 she was awarded three esteemed Australian Institute of Criminology 'Criminology Research Council' grants:
- Spaceless Violence and Advocacy: Technology-facilitated Abuse, Stalking and Service Provision in Australia (lead, with Dr Delanie Woodlock, Women’s Legal Service NSW and Professor Harry Blagg)
- Reducing Crime and Incarceration Rates in Aboriginal Communities: The Impact of the ‘Yes I Can’ Adult Literacy Campaign (led by Dr Jenny Wise with Associate Professor Bob Boughton, Adjunct Professor Jack Beetson and Dr Nickson)
- Police Body-worn Camera Technology in Response to Domestic and Family Violence: A National Study of Victim-Survivor Perspectives and Experiences (led by Dr Mary Iliadis, with Dr Danielle Tyson, Associate Professor Asher Flynn and Dr Zarina Vakhitova).
In 2018, with Dr Delanie Woodlock, she won an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia grant to host a workshop on Technology and Domestic Violence: Experiences, Perpetration and Responses, with leading national academics, advocates and practitioners. Other (Australian Communications Consumer Action Network) funded research includes Domestic Violence and Communication Technology: Victim Experiences of Intrusion, Surveillance, and Identity Theft; Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz, Dr Bridget Harris, Dr Michael Salter, Dr Delanie Woodlock, Women's Legal Service Queensland and Women's Legal Service New South Wales (2018-2019). She has also completed projects on Virtual Reality and Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence with Dr Claire Ferguson (QUT funded) and Body Worn Cameras: Examining the Merits of Body Worn Camera Technologies in Domestic and Family Violence Cases led by Dr Mary Iliadis, with Dr Danielle Tyson, Associate Professor Asher Flynn and Dr Zarina Vakhitova (funded by Deakin University).
In 2019 she was awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Research Award, 2020-2023) to complete a project on State responses to technology-facilitated domestic violence.
From 2020-2023 she was part of a Melbourne University led-team (Dr Dana McKay, Renee Fiolet, Dr Charlynn Miller, Cynthia Brown, Kobe Leins, Dr Nwakego Isika) awarded a Melbourne Social Equity Institute Grant: Why do they do that? An investigation into the perpetrator perspective of technology-facilitated abuse (external team: Dr Delanie Woodlock, Jasmine Purches, Vibol Hy, Dr Bridget Harris). She also led a 2020-2021 eSafety Commissioner funded grant (with Dr Delanie Woodlock, WESNET and WWILD) that explored tech-abuse experiences of women with cognitive or intellectual disability.
Information about her other 2022-2023 (government and industry) funded research projects is available via the projects tab on this page.
Bridget's book, edited with Dr Delanie Woodlock - Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses - features contributions from leading international advocates, practitioners and academics, and was published by Routledge in 2023.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Adjunct Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
2022 → …
Research Associate, University of West Virginia
2019 → …
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England (Australia)
2017 → …
Research area keywords
- domestic and family violence
- Violence against women
- technology-facilitated violence
- Sexual violence
- Technology-facilitated advocacy and responses to violence
- Gender-based violence
Network
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Building State responses to technology-facilitated domestic violence
20/06/20 → 31/01/24
Project: Research
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Delivering Research into Australian User Experience with Control Features on Social Media Services and Dating Platforms
Flynn, A., Harris, B., Robards, B., Vakhitova, Z. & Wheildon, L.
22/11/22 → 31/03/23
Project: Research
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Summarising the Evidence on Family Violence and VAW
Harris, B. & Carson, R.
29/07/22 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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Police body-worn camera technology in response to domestic and family violence: a national study of victim-survivor perspectives and experiences
Iliadis, M., Harris, B., Tyson , D., Flynn, A. & Vakhitova, Z.
Monash University – Internal Department Contribution
10/08/21 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Digital abuse of women with disabilities
Woodlock, D. & Harris, B., 2023, Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses. Harris, B. & Woodlock, D. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 103-116 14 p. (Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Remote-control: Regional, rural, and remote women’s experiences of digital coercive control
Harris, B. & Woodlock, D., 2023, Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses. Harris, B. & Woodlock, D. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 144-159 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Spaceless violence: concluding thoughts and future steps
Harris, B. & Woodlock, D., 2023, Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses. Harris, B. & Woodlock, D. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 199-211 13 p. (Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses
Harris, B. (ed.) & Woodlock, D. (ed.), 2023, 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge. 217 p. (Routledge Studies in Crime and Society)Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Technology and Interpersonal Violence
Harris, B., 2023, The Encyclopedia of Rural Crime. Harkness, A., Peterson, J. R., Bowden, M., Pedersen, C. & Donnermeyer, J. F. (eds.). 1st ed. Bristol UK: Bristol University Press, p. 104-107 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopaedia / Dictionary Entry › Other › peer-review
Prizes
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Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology New Scholar Award
Harris, Bridget (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Bruce Mansfield Award for Outstanding Research
Harris, Bridget (Recipient), 2008
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence
Harris, Bridget (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Vice Chancellor's Excellence Award
Harris, Bridget (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
- 1 Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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Submission to the Royal Commission into Family Violence
Bridget Harris (Contributor) & Amanda George (Contributor)
2015Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
Press/Media
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Migrant women are particularly vulnerable to technology-facilitated domestic abuse
Heather Douglas, Bridget Harris & Molly Dragiewicz
1/02/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature