Biography
Rosemary was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014 for her significant contribution to child welfare and the law. In 2021 She was elected as a Fellow to the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in recognition of her research prominence. She is a Member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts. 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. Her current research projects include: child protection and legal responses to cumulative harm in children (DHHS, Victoria); the cross-over between youth offending and child protection in children and young people before the Children's Court; establish a mechanism for external review of child protection decision making; reviewing the age of criminal responsibility of children.
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