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Lawrie Moloney
Senior Research Fellow

MSc (Edin) MA (Melb) PhD (LaTrobe)

Biography

Lawrence (Lawrie) Moloney is a Senior Research Fellow (part time) at AIFS and also holds an adjunct professorial position with the School of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at La Trobe University. Lawrie is a practising psychologist and family therapist who has published more than 200 articles, chapters, books and reports mainly in the area of children, parenting and separation. He is interested in the theory and practice of dispute resolution, especially within a family context, and in the practice questions and social issues arising out of what is broadly termed "family law". Lawrie is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Family Studies.

Specialist areas

  • Family law
  • Post separation parenting
  • Family mediation
  • Family therapy

Current research activities

  • Evaluation of Family Relationships Centre legal assistance partnerships program
  • Family Violence Literature review

Selected recent publications

  • Moloney, L. (2012). Family mediation: confidence, culture and cooperation. Journal of Family Studies, 17-(3).
  • Moloney, L., Kaspiew, R., De Maio, J., Deblaquiere, J., Hand, K., & Horsfall, B. (2012). The Family Relationship Centre Legal Assistance Services Partnerships Program : Evolution and evaluation. Journal of Family Studies, 17-(3).
  • Kaspiew, R., Gray, M., Weston. R., Moloney, L., Hand, K., Qu., L. and the family law evaluation team (2011). The AIFS evaluation of the 2006 family law reforms. A summary. Family Matters. 86 8-18.
  • Lodge, J., Moloney, L., Robinson, E. (2011). Domestic and family violence: A review of the literature. A report for the Department of Human Services. Australian Institute of Family Studies.
  • Moloney, L. (2011) The decision to marry. Freedoms, constraints and individual rights. Threshold.
  • Maloney, L., Kaspiew, R., De Maio, J., Deblaquiere, J., Horsfall, B. (2011) Evaluation of the Family Relationship Centre Legal Assistance Partnerships Program: final report, 2011 (PDF 5.4MB) Commissioned by the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department (AGD), Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
  • Qu, L., Moloney, L., Weston, R., Hand, K., Deblaquiere, J. & De Maio, J. (2011) Grandparenting and the 2006 family law reforms. Family Matters 88.
  • Weston, R., Qu, L., Gray, M., De Maio, J., Kaspiew, R., Moloney, L & Hand, K (2011) Shared care time. An increasingly common arrangement? Family Matters No 88
  • Robinson, E., & Moloney, L. (2010). Family violence: Towards a holistic approach to screening and risk assessment in family support services (AFRC Briefing Paper No. 17). Melbourne: Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse, Australian Institute of Family Studies
  • Weston, R., Qu, L., Gray, M., Kaspiew, R., Moloney, L., Hand, K., and the family law evaluation team (2011) Care time arrangements after the 2006 family law reforms. Implications for children and their parents. Family Matters 86, 19-32, Melbourne, Vic. AIFS.
  • Moloney, L. (2010) Family formation and family transition. Law predictability and context. Journal of Family Studies, 16 (3), 184-191.
  • Moloney, L., Qu L., Hand, K., De Maio,, J., Kaspiew, R., Weston, R., & Gray, M. (2010) Mandatory dispute resolution and the 2006 family law reforms: Use, outcomes, links to other pathways, and the impact of family violence Journal of Family Studies 16 (3), 192-196.
  • Lundberg, D., & Moloney, L. (2010) Being in the room: Family Dispute Resolution practitioners’ experience of high conflict family dispute resolution. Journal of Family Studies, 16 (3),209-223.

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