Associate Professor Nicola Henry

Nicola's research focuses on the prevalence, nature and impacts of sexual violence and harassment, including the legal and non-legal responses in Australian and international contexts. Her research has been largely situated in three socio-legal and criminology fields: (1) transitional and post-conflict justice; (2) rape law reform and primary prevention; and (3) technology-facilitated sexual violence. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on mixed-methods approaches within multidisciplinary teams. Nicola's books include: War and Rape: Law, Memory and Justice (2011: Routledge), Preventing Sexual Violence: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Overcoming a Rape Culture (2014: Palgrave Macmillan; co-edited with A/Prof Anastasia Powell), Rape Justice: Beyond the Criminal Law (2015: Palgrave Macmillan; co-edited with A/Prof Powell and A/Prof Asher Flynn), and Sexual Violence in a Digital Age (2017; Palgrave Macmillan; co-authored with A/Prof Powell). Nicola has another co-authored book coming out in early 2020 on image-based sexual abuse (with Routledge).

Nicola is lead Chief Investigator of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project on image-based sexual abuse (also known as "revenge pornography") in Australia, the UK and New Zealand (2017-20) with A/Prof Asher Flynn (Monash University), A/Prof Anastasia Powell (RMIT University), Prof Clare McGlynn (Durham University, UK), Prof Erika Rackley (University of Kent, UK), Prof Nicola Gavey (University of Auckland, NZ) and Dr Adrian Scott (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK). She is also Chief Investigator on a Criminology Research Grant on bystander intervention and image-based sexual abuse with A/Prof Flynn (2019-20). Previously Nicola was Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project on technology-facilitated sexual violence with A/Prof Powell (2013-15) and lead Chief Investigator of a Criminology Research Grant examining image-based abuse in the Australian context with A/Prof Flynn and A/Prof Powell (2016-17).

Her other recent research projects have been on rape law reform; gender, sexuality and disadvantage; and sexual violence and civil society war crimes tribunals.

• BA (Hons, first class) (University of Canterbury, NZ))
• MA (University of Canterbury, NZ)
• PhD (University of Melbourne)

Nicola has conducted research on image-based abuse and technology-facilitated abuse for the Australian Government's Office of the eSafety Commissioner. She is currently a member of the eSafety Commissioner's Online Consultative Working Group. She has provided expert advice on the development of the eSafety Office's world-first image-based abuse portal and the award-wining eSafety Women online training on technology-facilitated abuse for frontline workers. Nicola was Expert Advisor to Epigeum's Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence (an online course for university staff and student leaders) and played a pivotal role in the content of this course adapted for Australian universities. She is also on the Advisory Board for Gender Equity Victoria's Online Active Bystander Project.