Staff Profile
Dr Antonia Quadara
Research Fellow
BA(Hons) (Melb), PhD (Melb)
Biography
Dr Antonia Quadara is the Coordinator of the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault, at the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Antonia has been undertaking research in violence against women, women’s policy and criminal justice policy since 1999 when she completed a thesis on the treatment of Aboriginal sexual assault victim/survivors by the trial process. Her PhD, completed in 2006, explored the adult entertainment industry, women’s safety and public space in public policy. She was a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Criminology (University of Melbourne) from 2001 before beginning at the Institute.
Antonia manages the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault. The Centre is a national resource of information and research for policy makers, service providers, researchers and others working in the sexual assault field.
Specialist areas
- Criminal justice responses to violence against women
- Feminist frameworks sexuality and sexual violence
- Sex work in Australia
- Sexual assault prevention
- Public policy development in women’s safety and violence prevention
Selected recent publications
Peer reviewed
- Quadara, A. (2008). Sex workers and sexual assault in Australia: Prevalence, risk and safety. ACSSA Issues 8. Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Vic.
- Morrison, Z., Quadara, A., & Boyd, C. (2007). "Ripple effects" of sexual assault. ACSSA Issues 7. Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Vic.
- Quadara, A. (2007). "On it we live": Being at the limit and feminine subjectivity (PDF 91 KB). Passages: Law, Aesthetics, Politics, refereed conference proceedings, available
- Quadara, A. (2007). David Hicks In/As the Event of Terror. Australian Feminist Law Journal vol. 24.
Other publications
- Quadara, A. (2008). Responding to young people disclosing sexual assault: A resource for schools. ACSSA Wrap 6. Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Vic.
- Bamford, D., Halsey, M., Nelms, L., Quadara, A., Ross, S., & Stanley, J. (2008). Evaluation of the Neighbourhood Justice Centre: Second Interim Report, City of Yarra. Department of Justice, Vic.
- Bamford, D., Halsey, M., Nelms, L., Quadara, A., Ross, S., & Stanley, J. (2007). Evaluation of the Neighbourhood Justice Centre: First Interim Report, City of Yarra. Department of Justice, Vic.
- Quadara, A. (2007). Considering 'elder abuse' and sexual assault. ACSSA Newsletter 15. Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Vic.
- Quadara, A. (2006). 'Elder abuse' and the sexual assault of older women: A new Australian policy response. ACSSA Newsletter 13. Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Vic.