Core expertise
Gender and disaster
Intimate partner violence
Domestic violence
Environmental justice
Biography
Since 2009, Dr Debra Parkinson's research has focused on environmental justice and gender and disaster. Debra is an Adjunct Research Fellow with Monash University Accident Research Centre, and researcher for Women’s Health Goulburn North East (WHGNE) and Women’s Health In the North (WHIN). Over the past two decades, she has researched diverse gendered issues, including intimate partner violence and rape, women’s unequal access to the legal system, and gendered discrimination through the superannuation system. In 2015, Debra was awarded the ‘Social and Political Sciences Graduate Research Thesis Award’ from Monash University for her PhD on increased domestic violence after the Victorian ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires.
Debra is also the manager of the Gender and Disaster pod
