Dr Heather Douglas
Dr Heather Douglas is an Associate Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. She researches in the areas of criminal law and legal history. Her research on breaches of orders under the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 1989 is well known and valued across the domestic and family violence prevention sector. Heather has also researched the relationship between domestic violence and child protection and her work has been published in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia.
Heather was a part-time commissioner with the Queensland Law Reform Commission from 2001-2007. In 2004 Heather was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University.
