Responding to the new normal: SASVic’s symposium on technology-facilitated sexual violence
On 19 April, SASVic is holding a full-day event to explore technology-facilitated sexual violence and how the Victorian specialist sexual assault sector is responding.
Every year, staff across our sector work with close to 20,000 adults, young people and children impacted by sexual violence. We see trends and changes on sexual violence as they appear in our society. Unsurprisingly, digital developments are impacting sexual violence.
This symposium will share insights from the sexual assault, family violence and wider community sectors, as well as from academics and policy makers. Together, we'll explore the policy and practice responses to technology-facilitated sexual violence.
Date: 19 April 2024
Location: Storey Hall, RMIT
Cost: $82 + GST (non-member price)
There is a discount code for members, please email contactus@sasvic.org.au if you don’t already have it.
Speakers
Dr Fiona Vera-Gray
Fiona is one of the UK's leading feminist academics working on sexual violence and Deputy Director of the Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University. She will share the findings from her new book, Women on Porn, exploring the impacts of pornography on women and girls.
Professor Michael Salter & Dr Delanie Woodlock
Michael is a Professor at UNSW and an expert in child sexual exploitation and gendered violence and Delanie is a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation at Monash University and a feminist researcher with a focus on understanding and preventing men's violence against women and children. They recently published an article titled "You feel like you did something so wrong": Women's experiences of a loved one's child sexual abuse material offending.
Professor Nicola Henry
Nicola is a Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Social Equity Research Centre at RMIT University. Nicola is a socio-legal scholar with over two decades of research experience in the sexual violence field. Her research investigates the nature, prevalence and impacts of sexual violence, including legal and prevention responses in Australian and international contexts. Her current research focuses on technology-facilitated sexual violence and image-based sexual abuse.
More to be announced...