Associate Professor Lyndal Bugeja is the research lead of the Violence Investigation Research and Training Unit and Course Coordinator of Postgraduate Programs at the Department of Forensic Medicine. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with honours in criminology, Master of Forensic Medicine and a research doctorate in public health. Her professional experience supporting medico-legal death investigations and the utility of information generated for these investigations has been applied to pre and post-vention responses to injury and violence. She has contributed to the development of a number of injury and violence mortality surveillance systems to enhance the medico-legal investigation for the purposes of prevention.

In collaboration with research colleagues she has been awarded competitive grants from both international and national funding bodies, including the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council and Department of Social Services.

Lyndal has designed and led a number of collaborative research studies that have culminated in the development of evidence-based recommendations to mitigate the risk of injury and violence. Her research has contributed to legislative and policy changes that subsequently reduced fatal injury. Lyndal is an accredited higher degrees supervisor and has supervised students for Work Integrate Learning placements and in Honours, Masters and PhD programs.

Injury and violence prevention

Forensic Medicine

Preventive Medicine

Road Safety

Suicide Prevention

Family Homicide

Sexual Violence

Surveillance of Injury and Violence

Systematic Reviews