Lisa Wheildon

Lisa Wheildon is a researcher and teaching associate in criminology and gender-based violence at Monash University. Lisa’s recent research has focused on online safety and technology-facilitated abuse, including technology-facilitated coercive control and technology-facilitated workplace sexual harassment. Her teaching is in the areas of victimology and family and domestic violence. She is an expert in gender, public policy and institutions.

Lisa has a PhD in Behavioural Science (2022) in which she employed an interdisciplinary approach, applying criminological and political science theories with a feminist research methodology to examine the role of victim-survivors of gender-based violence in the co-production of public policy. The research explored how power imbalances and gendered social norms create barriers to meaningful engagement and successful co-production with victim-survivors and highlighted the need to transform state institutions to embed gender equality.  

Lisa is currently working on several projects, including a study looking at the impact of news media reporting on gender-based violence on victim-survivors. She is also working on a project investigating the role of identity in transitions from institutions, including prison and the military.

Lisa has expertise in qualitative and quantitative research methods and knowledge translation. She has published her research in high-quality international journals and commissioned reports. Lisa is the early career researcher representative on the Australian and New Zealand Society Of Criminology Committee of Management and a moderator and member of the Committee of Management of the Power to Persuade global social policy platform.