Dr Rachel Loney-Howes on taking on leadership, researching sexual violence, and understanding Butler

It's important to have friends in academia - people who understand your jam. I think I am really fortunate to have found Rachel at ANZSOC in 2022. Rachel is doing some really excellent work in the sexual violence space including work on alternative reporting mechanisms. I also really appreciate Rachel's willingness to step up into leadership when it is not always appreciated or seen. Go find some friends who get your jam - but first listen to this lovely episode and smile along with us.

This podcast was developed with support from the Queensland University of Technology.

Connect (Twitter)

Rachel Loney-Howes: @rloneyhowes

Jodi Death (it rhymes with “teeth”): @jodi_death

Kelsey Adams: @Kelsey_L_Adams

QUT Centre for Justice: @CrimeJusticeQUT

Mentions and Show Notes

University of Wollongong

The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC)

ANZSOC Conference (next one will be in Melbourne, 6-8 December 2023)

Alternative reporting options for sexual violence survivors in Australia - an overview

• Queensland - Alternative reporting option (ARO) - online form
• New South Wales - Sexual assault reporting option (SARO) - online form (can also be downloaded as a PDF and emailed to SARO@police.nsw.gov.au)

“It takes research 15-17 years for research to be translated into practice and policy.” Some sources:

• There’s a 17-year lag in translating health research into interventions
• Discussions of research translation in health and humanities

Leanne Liddle - Director of the Aboriginal Justice Unit (NT) and Australian of the Year 2022 (gave the keynote Address at ANZSOC 2022)

Angela Higginson - President of ANZSOC

Susanne Wiedlitzka  - Aotearoa New Zealand Vice-President of ANZSOC 

Bianca Fileborn 

#MeToo and the Politics of Social Change, edited by by Rachel Loney-Howes and Bianca Fileborn (2019)

Rachel’s PhD thesis: “Being heard…being seen…being believed” The politics of recognition in online anti-rape activism (2017)

Tully O’Neill (Lecturer in Criminology in the La Trobe Law School at La Trobe University)

RMIT

Criminology Research Grant (CRG)

“Public survivors” mentioned:

• Grace Tame
• Brittany Higgins
• Rosie Batty

Let Her Speak (now Let Us Speak) Campaign

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse - overview and final report

That photo of Grace Tame standing next to Scott Morrison

Kathleen McPhillips

The origin of #MeToo

Co-design methodology

Favourite theorist/theory/body of work:

• Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (2006)
• Nicola Gavey’s Just Sex?: The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape (2019; second edition)

Michel Foucault  

Simone de Beauvoir

La Trobe University