Dr Jasmine McGowan is a Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University.

Jasmine is a current member of the Victorian Government LGBTIQA+ Justice Working Group.

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 broadly with a focus on intimate and family violence in LGBTQA+ communities, disability and violence 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.