21 May 2010
During the next few weeks, Professor Marianne Hester will be in Australia to give a series of keynote speeches on domestic violence and abuse.
Funded by the Australian Attorney General, she will address the Western Australia Family Pathways Network Conference in Perth on 24 May discussing children and family violence and working with victims.
Professor Hester will also give the Len Tierney Lecture in Melbourne on 28 May entitled "Responding to children living with domestic and family violence: working towards consistency across sectors".
Finally, she will speak at the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse conference in Sydney on 4 June where she will also be building on existing links with the University of Sydney as part of the World Universities Network (WUN).
Professor Marianne Hester is the Head of the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, and Patron of South Tyneside Women's Aid. She is also the NSPCC Professor of Child Sexual Exploitation leading research activity within Fresh Start, a new and innovative centre established by the NSPCC to combine and develop training, practice and research on sexual abuse and exploitation of children and young people. Since 1980 she has carried out research into many aspects of violence against women and children, including comparative research on child contact and domestic violence in Denmark and the UK, and comparing domestic violence in China and the UK.
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