Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Professor JaneMaree Maher is Professor in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Sociology in the School of Social Sciences.
My research is focused in two key areas of gendered social science: women’s work, mothering and family, and gendered violences.
I am involved in gendered violence projects focused on how gender impacts on women's security and safety, and the gendered operations of the criminal justice system. My key interests are in family violence and gendered hate crime. I am a researcher in the Monash Gender & Family Violence Prevention Centre, focusing on new frameworks for prevention. A current focus is work with the Victorian Government on recommendations arising from the Royal Commission into Family Violence.
My family research critically examines the interactions of families and societies, with an emphasis on how neo-liberal discourses of health and consumption impact on family relationships. I have just completed an ARC funded DP160100257 Children as health advocates in families: assessing the consequences exploring the mobilisation of children as vectors for public health messages.
Graduate Supervision
I have supervised more than 30 postgraduate students to completion during my time at Monash. My supervision is grounded in critical gender scholarship: gendered violence, gendered labour and care, mothering, family lives and gender and employment.
In 2014, I was the winner of Dean’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree by Research Supervision, Faculty of Arts, for ‘exemplary support and direction of graduate researchers’. In 2011, I was main supervisor for Dr Karolyne Quinn's thesis on clinical responses to childhood sexual abuse survivors, which won the University's Mollie Holman Medal for outstanding doctoral research in the Faculty of Arts. In 2001, I won the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree by Research Supervision (Early Career Researcher), Faculty of Arts, for ‘exemplary support and direction of graduate researchers’.
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
President, Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association
2016 → Nov 2018
Research area keywords
- Gender
- Family Violence
- Childhood obesity
- Mothering
Network
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Accessing the family violence provision: enhancing migrant women’s safety
Segrave, M., Maher, J., Dixson, T. & Ashraf, S.
26/01/21 → 25/01/24
Project: Research
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National Plan Consultation Project
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Meyer, S., Gelb, K., McGowan, J., Wild, S., Batty, R., Segrave, M., Maher, J., Flynn, A., Pfitzner, N. & McCulloch, J.
14/05/21 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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Adolescent family violence in Australia: A national study of prevalence, use of and exposure to violence, and support needs for young people
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Meyer, S., Maher, J., Roberts, S. & Benier, K.
1/02/21 → 28/02/22
Project: Research
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Evaluation Services for the Review of the Fast Tracking Initiative in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria
Meyer, S., McCulloch, J., Maher, J., Bartlett, T., O'Brien, K., Vakhitova, Z., Fitz-Gibbon, K., McGowan, J. & Thomas, K.
Court Services Victoria (Victoria)
13/05/19 → 15/11/19
Project: Research
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Family by Family - Addressing childhood obesity through local understandings and local solutions
Maher, J., Warin, M. & Zivkovic, T.
1/04/19 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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Adolescent family violence in Australia: A national study of prevalence, history of childhood victimisation and impacts
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Meyer, S., Boxall, H., Maher, J. & Roberts, S., Sep 2022, Australia. 88 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other › peer-review
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National Plan Stakeholder Consultation: Final Report
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Meyer, S., Gelb, K., McGowan, J., Wild, S., Batty, R., Segrave, M., Maher, J., Pfitzner, N., McCulloch, J., Flynn, A., Wheildon, L. & Thorburn, J., Feb 2022, 312 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
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National Plan Victim-Survivor Advocates Consultation Final Report
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Reeves, E., Gelb, K., McGowan, J., Segrave, M., Meyer, S. & Maher, J., Feb 2022, 93 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other › peer-review
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School food in Australia: a dog's breakfast?
Leahy, D., Wright, J., Lindsay, J., Tanner, C., Maher, J. & Supski, S., 2022, Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies. Gard, M., Powell, D. & Tenorio, J. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 166-176 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Barriers to help seeking for women victims of adolescent family violence: A Victorian (Australian) case study
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Maher, J. & Elliott, K., 2021, Young People Using Family Violence. Fitz-Gibbon, K., Douglas, H. & Maher, J. (eds.). Gateway East, Singapore: Springer, p. 39-54 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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Dean's Award for Excellence in Higher Degree by Research Supervision
Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Impact and Engagement
McCulloch, Jude (Recipient), Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), Fitz-Gibbon, Kate (Recipient), Segrave, Marie (Recipient) & Roffee, J. A. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Journal Article of the Year 2020
McCulloch, Jude (Recipient), Walklate, Sandra (Recipient), Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), Fitz-Gibbon, Kate (Recipient) & McGowan, Jasmine (Recipient), Nov 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Faculty of Arts Excellence in Research Supervision (ECR)
Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), 2001
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Vice-Chancellor's Diversity and Inclusion Award
Carroll, John (Recipient), Brown, Michael (Recipient), Edgington-Mitchell, Daniel (Recipient), Garcia De La Banda, Maria (Recipient), Gurvich, Caroline (Recipient), Ho, Susie (Recipient), Joschko, L. (Recipient), Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), McDonald, Mike (Recipient), McGlinn, Edwina (Recipient), McGuigan, Nicholas (Recipient), Morgan, Michael (Recipient), Murray-Zaia, J. (Recipient) & Strengers, Yolande (Recipient), 10 Dec 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Schooling Food: An Exhibition
Deana Leahy (Director), Ana Tiquia (Producer), Warren Taylor (Director), Sian Supski (Producer), Zach Beltsos-Russo (Contributor), Anne Holloway (Contributor), JaneMaree Maher (Contributor), Jo Lindsay (Contributor), Claire Tanner (Contributor) & Jan Wright (Contributor)
18 Feb 2019 → 1 Mar 2019Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Performance/exhibition
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Submission in response to the Parliamentary inquiry into a better family law system to support and protect those affected by family violence
Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Fellow), JaneMaree Maher (Fellow), Jude McCulloch (Fellow), Marie Segrave (Fellow) & Sandra Walklate (Fellow)
2017Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
Press / Media
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Federal budget 2020: A funding fail for women on all fronts
Marie Segrave, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, JaneMaree Maher & Silke Meyer
8/10/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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COVID-19 and domestic violence
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Jude McCulloch, JaneMaree Maher, Silke Meyer & Marie Segrave
26/05/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Podcasts
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Coronavirus: Family violence and temporary migration in the time of COVID-19
Marie Segrave & JaneMaree Maher
2/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Domestic violence: What we can learn from Brazil
Jasmine McGowan, Jude McCulloch & JaneMaree Maher
11/02/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Students taking extreme measures to hide ‘unhealthy’ lunch boxes (The Herald Sun, 3AW Drive)
Claire Tanner, JaneMaree Maher, Jo Lindsay, Sian Supski, Deana Leahy & Jan Wright
9/12/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature