Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, a Professor of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University and Chair of Respect Victoria. Kate is an international research leader in the area of domestic and family violence, femicide, responses to all forms of violence against women, and the impacts of law reform in Australia and internationally. The findings of Kate’s research have been published in books, academic journals, funded reports and presented at national and international criminology conferences. Kate has advised on homicide law reform and family violence reviews in Australia and internationally.