Associate Professor Bianca Fileborn

Associate Professor in Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

Research

Older women experience sexual violence too, but their stories rarely make the news

Sexual assault against older women happens at the hands of partners or carers, but Australian media barely reports it. Left invisible, these women may not recognise their own experience as abuse

Politics & Society

Podcasts

Prevention and justice for sexual violence

Professor Bianca Fileborn is researching the different factors surrounding sexual violence – including place – and how we can better prevent it while providing new forms of justice for survivors

Politics & Society

Consent apps are a bad idea – here’s why

Using an app to verify sexual consent only risks protecting perpetrators and reduces sex to a transaction. What is needed is social change