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Dr Gemma McKibbin
Senior Research Fellow, UoM
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Dr Gemma McKibbin
Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne (UoM)
Dr Gemma McKibbin is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the University of Melbourne in the Violence Against Women and Children research team.
Gemma has a background in gender studies and a PhD focused on the prevention of harmful sexual behaviour carried out by children and young people. Along with an interest in harmful sexual behaviour, Gemma’s research focuses on preventing child sexual exploitation and sexual violence in young people’s intimate relationships, as well as on adult perpetration-focused prevention.
She leads a number of child sexual abuse prevention and response action research projects, including Power to Kids with MacKillop Family Services and the Worried About Sex and Pornography Project (WASAPP) with Jesuit Social Services, as well as the Amplifying Voices of Victim-Survivors (AVA) project. Gemma specialises in trauma-informed, child-focused research interviews with vulnerable children and young people. She is passionate about supporting children and young people to have a voice to government, and is a member of the National Clinical Reference Group advising government about harmful sexual behaviour.
Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne (UoM)
Dr Gemma McKibbin is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the University of Melbourne in the Violence Against Women and Children research team.
Gemma has a background in gender studies and a PhD focused on the prevention of harmful sexual behaviour carried out by children and young people. Along with an interest in harmful sexual behaviour, Gemma’s research focuses on preventing child sexual exploitation and sexual violence in young people’s intimate relationships, as well as on adult perpetration-focused prevention.
She leads a number of child sexual abuse prevention and response action research projects, including Power to Kids with MacKillop Family Services and the Worried About Sex and Pornography Project (WASAPP) with Jesuit Social Services, as well as the Amplifying Voices of Victim-Survivors (AVA) project. Gemma specialises in trauma-informed, child-focused research interviews with vulnerable children and young people. She is passionate about supporting children and young people to have a voice to government, and is a member of the National Clinical Reference Group advising government about harmful sexual behaviour.