Lisa Wheildon

Dr

Accepting PhD Students

20172023

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Biography

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.

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):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Behaviour Change, Doctor of Philosophy, Speaking truth to power: The role of survivors in driving policy change on gender-based violence, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

2018Aug 2022

Award Date: 4 Aug 2022

Public Administration, Executive Masters of Public Administration, Australia and New Zealand School of Government

20092010

Film and Television, Graduate Diploma, University of Melbourne

1995

English and History, Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne

19871989

External positions

Research Associate, University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Sept 2023 → …

Casual Researcher: Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University

4 Jul 2022 → …

Director Marketing and Communications, Australia and New Zealand School of Government

Sept 2016Oct 2021

Director Media and Communication, Our Watch Limited

Dec 2013Sept 2016

Director Strategic Communications, Department of State Development, Business and Innovation

Jun 2013Dec 2013

Director of Communications, Department of Primary Industries

Oct 2003Jun 2013

Account Director, Essential Media Communications Pty Ltd

Feb 20022003

Marketing Manager, ABC TV Victoria, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Jan 1996Feb 2002

Research area keywords

  • co-production
  • gender-based violence
  • victim-survivors
  • technology-facilitated violence
  • coercive control