Rosemary Sheehan

Biography

Rosemary teaches mental health in graduate social work and is director of the higher degrees by research program at Monash University. Her published research covers a range of areas: child welfare and the law, family violence, mental health, judicial and corrections responses to offenders, with particular reference to women offenders, and social work curricula. Rosemary’s current research projects include child protection and legal responses to cumulative harm in children (DHHS, Victoria), and the crossover between youth offending and child protection in children and young people before the Children's Court, Victoria (AIC-funded).