Dr Amanda Robertson
Senior Research Officer, National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse and Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University

Dr Robertson is a postdoctoral researcher with prior professional experience in the NSW education sector supporting schools to manage various aspects of child protection and safeguarding.

Her mixed-methods doctoral project focused on adult-perpetrated sexual abuse against adolescents in Australian schools, including consideration of women’s perpetration and gender bias. It examined the nature of the problem, its antecedents, and the ensuing institutional responses to ultimately recommend a series of prevention strategies for secondary educational settings. Dr Robertson’s interests broadly encompass child sexual abuse, organisational safeguarding, and sexual offending. She is currently a Senior Research Officer at the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse and Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University.