ProfessorSusan Heward-Belle

Sue is currently involved in the following projects:

• Dignity by Design: survivor-led system redesign, commissioned by the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse
• Sydney Local Health District - Evaluation of therapeutic interventions for adult survivors of sexualized violence and abuse
• Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation (DICE),a tri-state research project (NSW, VIC, QLD) that addresses the need for a collaborative prevention and disruption approach to Child Sexual Exploitation
• Safer Information Sharing Pathways Project, commissioned by the Attorney General's Department
• Sydney Local Health District Violence, Abuse and Neglect Strengths and Opportunities (VANSO), commissioned by Sydney Local Health District

Completed research:

• Safer Children, Safer Communities (2022-2023) funded by Westpac
• Evaluation of the Heartfelt Project (2023) funded by the ACT Government
• SAMSN Process and Outcomes Evaluation of program effectiveness (2021-2023) funded by SAMSH
• Pregnancy Family Conference - Investigating the potential to expand father involvement (2021-2023) – funded by Sydney Local Health District
• Analysis of linked longitudinal administrative data on child protection involvement (2021) funded by ANROWS
• Nurturing non - violence: Capacity Building Home Visitor Responses to DFV (2019-2020) funded by SLHD
• The STACY (Safe and Together Addressing Complexity): Focusing on Children Project (2019) – funded by ANROWS
• WDVCAS Evaluation of the Additional Victims Assistance Programs (2019) – funded by DCJ
• The STACY (Safe and Together Addressing Complexity) Project: Interventions with fathers who use domestic violence and have substance misuse and/or mental health issues (2018-2019) – funded by ANROWS
• Mapping therapeutic services for children who have experienced trauma in NSW (2018) – funded by Australian Childhood Foundation
• Invisible Practices: Intervening with men who use violence and control (2017) – funded by ANROWS
• The PATRICIA (Pathways and Research in interagency working) Project (2016) – funded by ANROWS

Completed higher degree research supervision (as Primary Supervisor)

• Dr Amelia Boyers (PhD) — Mothering in the impossible spaces: The lived experiences of women who are mothering children displaying harmful sexualised behaviours towards siblings
• Dr Nina Melander (PhD) — Accounts of young people in care who have experienced child sexual exploitation
• Dr Mary Jo McVeigh (PhD) — "You asked me, what helped me": An exploratory study of children's experience of therapeutic group work
• Dr Rakan Al'Omari (PhD) — Constructions of male perpetrators of DFV who are from CALD backgrounds
• Dr Lyn Stevenson (DSW) — Just dignity? Youth experiences at the nexus of power, resistance and dignity: the possibility of innovative youth-influenced, dignity-aware practices in the broad Australian legal landscape

 Completed higher degree research supervision (as Associate Supervisor)

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• Bethany Wilkinson (PhD) — Law: What is it good for? An exploration of the use of Apprehended Violence Orders (ADVOs) in NSW
• Anne-Marie Wilson-Salt (MPhil) — Out of home care: is the solution part of the problem?

 Current higher degree research supervision

• Yvonne Hughes (PhD) — Intimate partner violence experienced by young women in independent living (OOHC) placements: an examination of their experiences and systems responses.
• Janet Tse - Educator Experiences of Teaching Potentially Distressing Content in Higher Education