Overview
Availability
- Honorary Professor Heather Douglas is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Monash University
- Bachelor of Law, Monash University
- Masters (Coursework) of Law, Queensland University of Technology
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Works
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2017
Journal Article
Why are rates of domestic violence in Australia still so high?
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017, 11 10). Why are rates of domestic violence in Australia still so high?
2017
Journal Article
Australia’s archaic abortion laws harming women
Douglas, Heather Anne and de Costa, Caroline (2017). Australia’s archaic abortion laws harming women. Crikey
2017
Other Outputs
Submission To The Fair Work Commission 4 Yearly Review Of Modern Awards Family And Domestic Violence Leave (Am2015/1)
Harpur, Paul and Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Submission To The Fair Work Commission 4 Yearly Review Of Modern Awards Family And Domestic Violence Leave (Am2015/1). Fair Work Commission.
2017
Other Outputs
A health issue not a crime: it’s time to scrap outdated abortion laws
deCosta, Caroline and Douglas, Heather (2017, 06 24). A health issue not a crime: it’s time to scrap outdated abortion laws The Guardian
2017
Other Outputs
Prosecution of rape and sexual assault in Queensland: report on a pilot study
Scott,Rebecca, Douglas, Heather Anne and Goss, Caitlin (2017). Prosecution of rape and sexual assault in Queensland: report on a pilot study. St Lucia QLD Australia: T.C.Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.
2017
Other Outputs
Opinion: Drag Abortion laws out of the 19th century
deCosta, Caroline and Douglas, Heather (2017, 02 21). Opinion: Drag Abortion laws out of the 19th century The Courier Mail
2017
Book
National domestic and family violence bench book
Douglas, Heather and Chapple, Kate (2017). National domestic and family violence bench book. Brisbane, Australia: Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration.
2017
Conference Publication
Strangulation in the context of domestic and family Violence
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Strangulation in the context of domestic and family Violence. Queensland Domestic Violence Death Review Board, Queensland, 25 August 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Panel Discussion, Public Forum
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Panel Discussion, Public Forum. The Royal Commission into Family Violence: Today and into the Future, Melboure, VIC, Australia, 7 April 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Legal responses to domestic violence in the context of Human Services
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Legal responses to domestic violence in the context of Human Services. Department of Human Services (Cth) In-service, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 11 October 2017.
2017
Book
Criminal process in Queensland
Douglas, Heather, Higgins, Emma and Barrett, Malcolm (2017). Criminal process in Queensland. 2nd ed. Sydney, NSW Australia: Lawbook Company and Thomson Reuters.
2017
Conference Publication
Domestic violence and mental illness: Implications for legal engagement
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Domestic violence and mental illness: Implications for legal engagement. XXXVth International Congress on Law and Mental health, Charles University, Prague, 12 July 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Domestic violence protection orders and their role in ensuring personal security
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Domestic violence protection orders and their role in ensuring personal security. Monash Prato Roundtable: Intimate partner violence, risk and security: Securing women’s lives in a global world, Prato, Italy, 19 September 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Contraventions of DVOs: the Queensland context
Douglas, Heather Anne and Fitzgerald, Robin (2017). Contraventions of DVOs: the Queensland context. Not Now, Not Ever Research Symposium, Mackay, QLD, Australia, 23-24 February 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Fitness to plead and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Fitness to plead and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. Joint symposium of the Australian Psychological Society College of Forensic Psychologists and the Australian and New Zealand Association for Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Brisbane, 13 October 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Race and incarceration: perspectives from Australia and the United States
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Race and incarceration: perspectives from Australia and the United States. Life Course Centre, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 14 March 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
It’s not 1899, abortion is not a crime
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). It’s not 1899, abortion is not a crime. Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion in Australia Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 3 August 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Legal responses to domestic and family violence
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Legal responses to domestic and family violence. Brisbane HR Representatives Networking Event, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 March 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
Prosecution of rape and sexual assault in Queensland’, Sexual Violence, Consent and the Law Symposium: What is required to create innovative criminal justice to survivors in Queensland?
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Prosecution of rape and sexual assault in Queensland’, Sexual Violence, Consent and the Law Symposium: What is required to create innovative criminal justice to survivors in Queensland? . Queensland Parliament House (opening of Sexual Violence Awareness month 2017), Queensland, 5 October 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
The Use of Smartphone Recordings as Evidence in DV proceedings
Douglas, Heather Anne and Burdon, Mark (2017). The Use of Smartphone Recordings as Evidence in DV proceedings. Queensland Magistrates Continuing Professional Development Series, Magistrates Court, Brisbane, 5 December 2017.
Funding
Supervision
Availability
- Honorary Professor Heather Douglas is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Criminal law and procedure
- disclosure and fair trial;
- unrepresented defendants in criminal matters and the role of judges;
- post-sentence detention (eg: dangerous offenders, indefinites sentences etc.
For further information contact Professor Heather Douglas, e: h.douglas@law.uq.edu.au
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Topics that explore legal issues related to domestic and family violence
- use of exclusion or ouster orders in legislation and by the courts;
- development of specific offences (stalking, torture etc) and their implementation;
- development of defences (eg provocation, battered persons defence) and use in courts;
- role of the victim in charge and prosecution of criminal offences;
- special courts and alternative justice mechanisms in domestic and family violence matters.
For further information contact Professor Heather Douglas, e: h.douglas@law.uq.edu.au
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
The Criminal Justice Journeys of Incarcerated Women who have Experienced Non-Fatal Strangulation: Conceptualising a Trauma- and Gender-informed Approach to Correctional Care.
Associate Advisor
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Unrepresented Defendants in Criminal Trials in Bhutan: A Comparative Study between Australia and Bhutan
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Migration and domestic violence: Women's experiences of proving domestic violence as a requirement for permanent residency in Australia
Principal Advisor
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
The Charging Decision: Accountability, Transparency, and Control of the Decision to Prosecute
Principal Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Child Death, Neglect & Criminal Responsibility: The (In)adequacy of the Law of Homicide in Australia in Cases of Child Fatality Resulting from Parental Neglect
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Andreas Schloenhardt
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Does Australia's law governing fitness for trial for summary offences protect the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Devereux
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
The role of the victim in criminal proceedings in Australia and Germany - a comparison
Principal Advisor
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
The criminal law implications for doctors who perform sacrificial separation surgery on conjoined twins
Principal Advisor
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
A Trauma-Informed Non-Fatal Strangulation Trial: Victim-Witnesses, Brain Injury and PTSD
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Caitlin Goss
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Murri Courts: An ethnography of Indigenous sentencing courts in Southeast Queensland, Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Babidge, Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter
Media
Enquiries
Contact Honorary Professor Heather Douglas directly for media enquiries about:
- Aboriginal peoples and criminal law
- Aboriginal peoples and domestic violence
- Abortion and the law
- Australian judicial decision-making
- Criminal law and Indigenous people
- Criminal law and procedure
- Domestic violence
- Domestic violence in Indigenous communities
- Family violence
- FASD
- Feminism
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and the Law
- Human rights
- Indigenous people and criminal law
- law reform
- sentencing
- Social justice law
- Stalking and technology facilitated abuse
- Violence - domestic
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