Scientific Program Committee
The Scientific Program of the Conference has designed to meet the specific needs of the Australasian child protection sector. The Program will incorporate presentations across a diverse range of areas including child protection service responses, policing and the courts, health and welfare therapeutic interventions, and emerging issues in child abuse and neglect, and child protection policy and practice reform.
Dr Adam Tomison (Chair) – Director, Australian Institute of Criminology
Hayley Boxall – Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology
A/Prof Leah Bromfield – Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia
Professor Marie Connolly – Chair & Head of Social Work, University of Melbourne
Dr Alex Dordevic – Director, Centre for Human Services Research and Evaluation, Department of Human Services Victoria
Sue Foley – Consultant and Senior Social Worker, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney & ISPCAN Councillor
Prof Morag McArthur – Director, Institute for Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
Sarah Macgregor – Senior Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology
Mary McKinnon – Director, Statutory Services and Forensic Design, Department of Human Services Victoria
Dr Sue Packer – Paediatrician Child at Risk Unit, Canberra Hospital & NAPCAN Board Director
Prof Martine Powell – Psychology, Deakin University
Dr David Plater – Lawyer, SA Attorney-General’s Department and Lecturer in Law, University of South Australia
Julian Pocock – Director, Public Policy, Berry St Victoria
Dr Jeremy Prichard – Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law University of Tasmania and Director Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
Dr Shanti Raman – Community Paediatrician-Child Protection, Sydney & SWS Local Health District & Senior Lecturer University of New South Wales
Dr Danny Sullivan – Assistant Clinical Director, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare); Adjunct Senior lecturer, Monash University
Dr Stephanie Taplin – Deputy Director, Institute for Child Protection Studies, ACU
Patrick Tidmarsh – Forensic Interview Advisor with the Sexual Offences Child Abuse Investigation Team (SOCIT), Victoria Police
