Member in the Spotlight (June 2019): Bridget Harris

ISSRC founding member and Society Treasurer, Dr Bridget Harris, is this month’s member in the spotlight. You can follow her on Twitter.

Based in the Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Research Centre, School of Justice, Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology, Bridget works in the areas of domestic and family violence; technology-facilitated violence, advocacy and justice administration; spatiality; access to justice; and legal advocacy.

Bridget actively combines her scholarship with practical outcomes – and has been invited to advise police and legal bodies in her research fields, and her research has informed policy and practice nationally and internationally (including in the Royal Commission into Family Violence and Law Council of Australia’s report, The Justice Project, focused on the state of access to justice in the nation).

Bridget has a long-running interest in rural criminology. In 2014, along with Amanda George, she prepared the ground-breaking Landscapes of Violence report which assessed the multitude of issues facing victims and survivors of family violence in rural and regional Victoria, Australia.

She edited (with Alistair Harkness and David Baker Locating Crime in Context and Place: Perspectives on Regional, Rural and Remote Australia (Federation Press, 2016). She is lead editor, with Delanie Woodlock, of the forthcoming Domestic Violence and Technology: Experiences, Perpetration and Responses (Routledge, 2021).

Bridget has not one but two articles in the May 2019 issue of The British Journal of Criminology (Vol 59 Issue 3) – the first with Delanie Woodlock on digital coercive control and domestic violence and violence against women; and the second with Heather Douglas and Molly Dragiewicz on technology facilitated violence.