Nicola Henry

Nicola is a Senior Lecturer in Legal Studies at La Trobe University. She teaches in the areas of discrimination, human rights, social justice, transitional justice and international criminal law. Nicola adopts an interdisciplinary, socio-legal approach to her teaching and research. She has written on a wide range of issues, with specific focus on violence against women, transitional justice, collective memory, law and trauma. Her publications have largely been on sexual violence, and include an article that won the Best Article Award in 2010 for Violence Against Women, and her books, War and rape: law, memory and justice (2011: Routledge), Preventing sexual violence: interdisciplinary approaches to overcoming a rape culture (2014: Palgrave Macmillan; co-edited with Dr Anastasia Powell) and Rape justice: beyond the realm of law (2015: Palgrave Macmillan; co-edited with Dr Anastasia Powell and Dr Asher Flynn). Nicola has also written on a wide range of political, social and environmental issues for the Australian Collaboration website.

Since 2013, Nicola has been working as a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project with Dr Anastasia Powell (RMIT University), titled “Technology-facilitated sexual violence and harassment: violence against women in cyberspace and the implications for legislative and policy reform”. The project examines the ways in which technologies (including mobile phones, video recordings, online spaces, social media etc) are being used in connection with sexual violence and harassment against women. Anastasia and Nicola are the co-coordinators of the Violence and Discrimination Against Women Research Network (VDAWnet). Nicola is currently working on a collaborative, cross-institutional project on rape law reform with Associate Professor Wendy Larcombe, Dr Bianca Fileborn, Dr Natalia Hanley (University of Melbourne) and Dr Anastasia Powell (RMIT University); and on a La Trobe University Transforming Human Societies project with Professor Gary Dowsett, Dr Gillian Fletcher and Stephen Wood on gender, sexuality and disadvantage. She is also working on a La Trobe Asia project on sexual violence and civil society war crimes tribunals.