Rate My Professor Bridget Harris

Associate Professor Bridget Harris is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts at Monash University, where she leads as Convenor of Criminology and Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. She earned an honours degree from Macquarie University, receiving the Bruce Mansfield Award for Outstanding Research in 2008, and completed her PhD at Queensland University of Technology, which was nominated for the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Excellence in 2014. An Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellow, Harris previously received Monash University's Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2012 and Queensland University of Technology's Vice Chancellor's Performance Award for Service Excellence in 2017. Additional honours include the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology New Scholar Prize in 2019, Outstanding Policing Research Award in 2022, Monash Faculty of Arts Excellence for Research Impact Award nomination in 2023, and recognition as Australia's top researcher in criminology, criminal law, and policing by The Australian in 2024 and 2025. Her interdisciplinary research examines intimate partner, domestic, family, and sexual violence; technology-facilitated violence and advocacy; violence against women in rural, remote, and regional places; and access to justice, including postcode justice.

Harris has produced influential publications such as the edited volume Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses (Routledge, 2023, with Delanie Woodlock); Comparing police officers’ and domestic violence victims’ perspectives on body-worn cameras (Justice Quarterly, 2025, with Zarina Vakhitova, Mary Iliadis, Asher Flynn, and Danielle Tyson); Policing technology-facilitated domestic abuse: Views of service providers in Australia and the United Kingdom (Journal of Family Violence, 2025, with Heather Douglas, Leonie Tanczer, and Freya McLachlan); and How police body-worn cameras can facilitate misidentification in domestic and family violence responses (Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2024, with Mary Iliadis, Zarina Vakhitova, Delanie Woodlock, Asher Flynn, and Danielle Tyson). Her scholarship has shaped policy through heavy citation in the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence recommendations, use by the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament Office of Science and Technology, and contributions to the Law Council of Australia's Justice Project, alongside advising police and legal bodies on technology-facilitated abuse and regional gender-based violence. She holds roles including Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Rural Criminology and Research Associate at West Virginia University.