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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’.
External positions
President, Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association
2016 → Nov 2018Research area keywords
- Gender
- Family Violence
- Childhood obesity
- Mothering
Network
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Projects
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
Specialist Support Research Program
Maher, J., McCulloch, J., Segrave, M., Weber, L., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Muir, C. & McKernan, H.
14/03/19 → 13/03/21
Project: Research
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.
13/05/19 → 15/11/19
Project: Research
EIFV: Taskforce Early Intervention for Family Violence (EIFV) Program
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Meyer, S., McCulloch, J. & Maher, J.
1/03/19 → 28/02/20
Project: Research
Evaluation of Family Violence Body Worn Camera Trial
McCulloch, J., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Maher, J., Segrave, M., McGowan, J. & Thomas, K.
1/03/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Research Output
Justice perspectives of women with disability: An Australian story
McCulloch, J., Maher, J., Walklate, S., McGowan, J. & Fitz-Gibbon, K., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : International Review of Victimology. p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
The views of Australian judicial officers on domestic and family violence perpetrator interventions
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Maher, J., Thomas, K., McGowan, J., McCulloch, J., Burley, J. & Pfitzner, N., 9 Jun 2020, Sydney NSW Australia: Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS). 110 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other
Open Access
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Children, ‘healthy’ food, school and family: the ‘[n]ot really’ outcome of school food messages
Maher, J., Supski, S., Wright, J., Leahy, D., Lindsay, J. & Tanner, C., Mar 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Children's Geographies. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Criminology, gender and security in the Australian context: Making women’s lives matter
Walklate, S., McCulloch, J., Fitz-Gibbon, K. & Maher, J. M., 2019, In : Theoretical Criminology. 23, 1, p. 60-77 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Citations
(Scopus)
Lone Wolf Terrorism Through a Gendered Lens: Men Turning Violent or Violent Men Behaving Violently?
McCulloch, J., Walklate, S., Maher, J. M., Fitz-Gibbon, K. & McGowan, J., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Critical Criminology. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
4
Citations
(Scopus)
Prizes
Dean's Award for Excellence in Higher Degree by Research Supervision
Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Impact and Engagement
McCulloch, Jude (Recipient), Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), Fitz-Gibbon, Kate (Recipient), Segrave, Marie (Recipient) & James Andrew Roffee (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Faculty of Arts Excellence in Research Supervision (ECR)
Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), 2001
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
- 1 Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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)
2017
Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
Press / Media
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
The link between lone attacks and violence against women hides in plain sight
Jude McCulloch, JaneMaree Maher, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate & Jasmine McGowan
17/08/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
Victorian government should be wary of introducing a stand-alone offence of non-fatal strangulation
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Judith McCulloch, Jane Maree Maher & Sandra Lyn Walklate
3/08/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Explainer: what is parricide and how common is it in Australia?
Kate Fitz-Gibbon & Jane Maree Maher
19/07/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research