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Personal profile
Biography
Dr Jasmine McGowan is a Lecturer at the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Jasmine completed her PhD in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne in 2014.
Jasmine has extensive research experience in gender, feminist theory, critical sexuality studies, representation and screen and media cultures. Jasmine's current research focuses on gendered violence, disability and violence, disability hate crime, economic abuse, intimate partner homicide and perpetrator interventions. Jasmine has conducted research and evaluation for the Department of Social Services, Family Safety Victoria, ANROWS, the Magistrates' Court of Victoria, the Victorian Women's Trust and TaskForce.
Recent projects Jasmine has worked on include the National Plan Stakeholder and Victim-Survivor Advocates Consultations, the Centre's rapid response research project 'Gender-based violence and help-seeking behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic', the Review of the Victorian Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme, the ARC-funded project 'Securing Women's Lives: Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide' and the ANROWS-funded project Women, Disability and Violence: Barrers to Accessing Justice'. In 2018 Jasmine received funding from the Victorian Women's Trust to develop a toolkit designed to assist women with disability identify economic abuse.
The findings of Jasmine's research have been published in quality international and national journals and she has presented at national and international conferences on family violence, social science and comparative literature.
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):
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Building the evidence base on perpetrator program attrition and participant engagement strategies
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Helps, N., McGowan, J., Robertson, E., Watt, J., Montgomery, I., Steele, E., Berryman, K., Jaczina, Y., Fox, R., Johannsen, T. & Opoku, S.
30/06/22 → 30/12/23
Project: Research
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Child and Young Person MARAM Lived Experience Engagement Project
Fitz-Gibbon, K., McGowan, J. & Stewart, R.
15/06/22 → 30/11/22
Project: Research
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Evaluation of an online perpetrator intervention pilot program for GBTIQ+ men and for rural, regional, and remote men
Helps, N., Fitz-Gibbon, K. & McGowan, J.
22/11/21 → 31/08/22
Project: Research
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Monash Facilitation for Office For Women (OFW) Prevention of Financial Abuse Workshop
Fitz-Gibbon, K., McGowan, J. & Mead, J.
28/05/21 → 7/07/21
Project: Consultancy
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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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I believe you: Children and young people’s experiences of seeking help, securing help and navigating the family violence system
Fitz-Gibbon, K., McGowan, J. & Stewart, R., 2023, Monash University. 52 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other
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Safeguarding worker wellbeing for remote delivery of domestic and family violence support
Pfitzner, N., McGowan, J. & Truong, M., Apr 2023, Australia: Commonwealth Government of Australia.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other
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'You can’t just … add a bit of rainbow dust': A review of the Clear Space online behaviour change program for GBTQ+ men and non-binary people
McGowan, J., Helps, N., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Athwal-Yap, A. & Williamson, H., 2023, Victoria Australia: Monash University. 54 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
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‘It was dangerous, corrosive and cruel but not illegal’: Legal help-seeking behaviours amongst LGBTQA+ domestic and family violence victim-survivors experiencing coercive control in Australia
Reeves, E., McGowan, J. & Scott, B., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Family Violence. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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‘Just opens up a whole new possibility of change’: A review of the Men Exploring New Directions online program
Helps, N., McGowan, J., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Williamson, H. & Athwal-Yap, A., 2023Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
Open Access
Prizes
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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)
Press/Media
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Why the work to hold family violence perpetrators accountable is only just beginning
Nicola Helps, Jessica Louise Burley, Jasmine McGowan & Kate Fitz-Gibbon
8/02/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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The urgent need to address coercive control of women with disability
Jasmine McGowan & Tricia Malowney
3/12/21
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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Tackling violence in the lives of women with disability in Australia
Jasmine McGowan, JaneMaree Maher & Jude McCulloch
1/10/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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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