2024 Domestic and Family Violence Conference
2024-11-06 09:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Sydney Law School, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
In-person event

The University of Sydney is pleased to announce its third conference on domestic and family violence. This one-day conference aims to convene academic researchers and community professionals who are dedicated to enhancing our knowledge of and responses to domestic and family violence.

About the conference

Domestic and family violence is rife in Australia. Concerningly, 1 in 6 women have experienced physical or sexual violence by a current or former partner, and one woman a week is killed (AIHW, 2018).

To address this complex issue, the Sydney Institute of Criminology is organising a one-day conference on domestic and family violence. This event will take place in person at The University of Sydney Camperdown Campus on Wednesday, 6 November.

The conference will bring together a diverse group of people, including those with lived experience, academics, and professionals working in community organisations. We hope to learn from one another’s knowledge and experiences to enhance our understanding of and responses to this urgent national issue. Our aim is to start a dialogue between community organisations and researchers that may lead to mutually beneficial research and practice collaborations.

Wednesday 6 November, 2024

Time: Program will be released closer to the dateVenue: Sydney Law School, Level 1, New Law Building Annexe (F10A), Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, Camperdown campusCPD points = tbc

Program

Click here to view a copy of the final program (updated 4/11/24).

Registration

Complimentary, however registration is essential.Register here.

This conference is hosted by the University of Sydney Law School.

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence | Lunchtime Event 2024

Please note: Registration for the conference includes the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence lunchtime event.

If you would like to register for the lunchtime event only, register here.

Contact: If you have questions, please email: Associate Professor Helen Paterson: helen.paterson@sydney.edu.au

This conference is hosted by the University of Sydney Law School.

2023 Domestic and Family Violence Conference
2026-01-07 22:01 | Sydney Law School, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
Domestic and Family Violence Conference
This conference will be held on 9 November at The University of Sydney Law School
A one day conference of academic researchers and community professionals who are working to improve our understanding of and responses to Domestic and Family Violence. This conference has been initiated by the Sydney Institute of Criminology, and is additionally supported by the University of Sydney Law School; the School of Psychology, the Women at Sydney Network; Diversity and Inclusion; and Social Work and Policy Studies.

About the conference
Domestic and family violence is rife in Australia. Concerningly, 1 in 6 women have experienced physical or sexual violence by a current or former partner, and one woman a week is killed (AIHW, 2018).
To address this complex issue, the Sydney Institute of Criminology is organising a one-day conference on domestic and family violence. This event will take place in person on Gadigal Land at The University of Sydney Camperdown Campus on Thursday, 9 November.
The conference will bring together a diverse group of people, including academics, professionals working in community organisations, and those with lived experience. It is hoped that we will be able to learn from one another’s knowledge and experiences to enhance our understanding of and responses to this urgent national issue. Our aim is to start a dialogue between community organisations and researchers that may lead to mutually beneficial research collaborations.
Venue
Sydney Law School, New Law Building Annexe – Level 1
The University of Sydney

Program
View the latest program here (updated 31 October 2023)

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Please note that by registering to this event, you will also be registered to attend 16 Days of Activism â€” Lunchtime Event.

Contact: If you have questions, please email: Associate Professor Helen Paterson: helen.paterson@sydney.edu.au
This conference is hosted by the University ofÂ Sydney Law School.

Digital vulnerability: Vulnerable individuals and remote access technologies in justice
2026-01-07 22:01
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Digital vulnerability: Vulnerable individuals and remote access technologies in justice
Ethics & professional responsibility
Professional skills
Practice Management
CPD Points: 1.5
About
This seminar will focus on the use of remote access technologies, such as audiovisual links, when working with vulnerable individuals in the justice system, and the developing concept of â€˜digital vulnerability’. The seminar will draw on Dr McKay’s current Australian Research Council (â€˜ARC’) funded research and examine the multiple layers of vulnerability that individuals may experience while involved in legal matters. It will present preliminary findings from initial fieldwork interviews with lawyers and judicial officers that reveal critical perspectives on the impacts of digitalisation on vulnerable people in the justice system. While the research project and findings centre on the criminal justice system, many of the issues are equally relevant to legal practitioners working with vulnerable people in civil matters.
Presenter
Dr Carolyn McKay is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School where she teaches Criminal Law, Civil & Criminal Procedure and Digital Criminology. She is CoDirector of the Sydney Institute of Criminology.
Carolyn is recognised for her research into technologies in justice, specifically her empirical research into prisoners’ experiences of accessing justice from a custodial situation by audio visual links, published in her monograph,The Pixelated Prisoner: Prison video links, court â€˜appearance’ and the justice matrix (2018)Â Routledge. During the period July 2021 – June 2024, Carolyn will undertake her ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) ‘The Digital Criminal Justice Project: Vulnerability and the Digital Subject’.
Carolyn serves on the NSW Bar Association Innovation & Technology Committee and served on the 2019 NSW Law Society Legal Technologies Committee. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford 2019 and for 3 months at the OÃ±ati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain 2013-14. Carolyn has previously consulted on anti-dumping trade disputes and indirect taxation, working in both Sydney and Tokyo, and she also has a digital media/visual arts practice.

This webinar will be released on Thursday 29 June, 2023.
Find out more about the series.

Vulnerable witness advocacy
2026-01-07 22:01
2023-24 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Vulnerable witness advocacy
Professional skills
Ethics & professional responsibility
CPD Points: 1.5
About
This seminar will discuss the definition of a vulnerable witness in theÂ Criminal Procedure ActÂ 1986Â (NSW) and the provisions in the Act that allow for the use of pre-recorded evidence and provide for other alternative means of giving evidence. The seminar will particularly consider the way a complainant’s evidence is adduced in the Child Sexual Assault Program operating in some NSW courts. There will also be some discussion ofÂ Evidence ActÂ 1995Â (NSW) provisions that may be relevant to the evidence of a vulnerable witness. Finally, the seminar will cover relevant provisions of theÂ Equality before the Law Bench BookÂ and some findings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Presenter
Philip Hogan is a Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) (â€˜ODPP’). He was appointed to this office in 2018, having served as a Crown Prosecutor since 2010. Before that, Philip spent 13 years at the NSW Bar, practising from Samuel Griffiths Chambers. He appears regularly in serious criminal proceedings in the Supreme Court of NSW and the District Court of NSW.

This webinar will be released on Thursday 25 May, 2023.
Find out more about the series.

Non-consensual sexual offence law reform in Western Australia
2026-01-07 22:01
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Non-consensual sexual offence law reform in Western Australia
Substantive Law
CPD Points: 1.5
About
The Attorney-General of Western Australia has asked that State’s Law Reform Commission to review Western Australia’s sexual offence laws. On 23 December 2022, the Commission published a Discussion Paper that deals with, among other things, the law relating to sexual consent and the operation of honest and reasonable mistake of fact in non-consensual sexual offence proceedings. This seminar will consider the various reform options. It will particularly focus on how the law should define â€˜consent’; vitiating circumstances such as mistakes and threats; and the circumstances in which the honest and reasonable mistake of fact excuse should be available to a person accused of non-consensual sexual offending. There will be some discussion of recent law reform activity in this area in other Australian jurisdictions – most notably, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.
Presenter
Dr Andrew DyerÂ is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School and has been a Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology since 1 January 2021. His research concerns criminal law and human rights law and the relationship between them.

This webinar will be released on Thursday 27 April, 2023.
Find out more about the series.

Domestic and Family Violence Conference
2026-01-07 22:01 | Sydney Law School, New Law Building, 3 Law School, Eastern Ave, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Domestic and Family Violence Conference
This conference will be held on 9 November at The University of Sydney Law School
A one day conference of academic researchers and community professionals who are working to improve our understanding of and response to Domestic and Family Violence. This conference has been initiated by the Sydney Institute of Criminology, and is supported by the University of Sydney Law School; the School of Psychology, the Women at Sydney Network; Diversity and Inclusion; and the Research Centre for Children and Families.

About the conference
Domestic and family violence is rife in Australia. Concerningly, 1 in 6 women have experienced physical or sexual violence by a current or former partner, and one woman a week is killed (AIHW, 2018).
To address this complex issue, the Sydney Institute of Criminology is organising a one-day conference on domestic and family violence. This event will take place in person at The University of Sydney Camperdown Campus on Wednesday, 9 November.
The conference will bring together a diverse group of people, including those with lived experience, academics, and professionals working in community organisations. We hope to learn from one another’s knowledge and experiences to enhance our understanding of and responses to this urgent national issue. Our aim is to start a dialogue between community organisations and researchers that may lead to mutually beneficial research and practice collaborations.
Program
A final program is available here (last updated 08 November 2022).

Venue
Sydney Law School, New Law Building Annexe – Level 1
The University of Sydney

Please note that by registering to this event, you will also be registered to attend 16 Days of Activism â€” Lunchtime Event.

Contact: If you have questions, please email: Associate Professor Helen Paterson: helen.paterson@sydney.edu.au
This conference is hosted by the University ofÂ Sydney Law School.
