Bachelor of Social Studies (Hons) Sydney University , PhD UNSW
Jan Breckenridge is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW and is the Co-Convener of the UNSW Gendered Violence Research Network. Jan is also the Convener of the Social Inquiry Cluster which is a senior leadership role within the School of Social Sciences involving operational and strategic oversight of the following programs and streams – Criminology and Criminal Justice (BCCJ), Social Research and Policy (SRAP), Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) and Sociology and Anthropology (SOCA) .
Teaching areas:
Socio-legal practice, therapeutic responses to trauma including community responses, research methods. Convener, BSW (Honours) Program.
Areas of HDR supervision:
Trauma, domestic and sexual violence, gender, child abuse and child protection, welfare intervention and practice, qualitative research methodology
Current HDR supervision:
Recent HDR completions:
2015 - UNSW Staff Excellence Award in Work, Health and Safety – GV & Work Program
2014 - Dean's Award for Research Excellence
2014 - ARC Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision
2010 - UNSW Staff Award for Excellence in Community Engagement
Co-Convener, UNSW Gendered Violence Research Network, which brings together over 60 UNSW research affiliates and internal members, with over 1000 followers on Twitter and 1,500 external subscribers.Jan co-chaired the first significant event of the GVRN - the Inaugural Asia Pacific Conference on Gendered Violence and Violations (2015), athree day conference which brought together 330 delegates from 20 countries, with 20 keynote speeches, 80 paper presentations and 7 pre-conference master classes covering a range of themes. These themes included investigating different forms of interventions and engaging with policy and legal responses, in an effort to combine research excellence and practitioner knowledge, and to promote policy discussion with the goal of reducing and mitigating the harmful effects of gendered violence.
Member, National Joint Reference Advisory Committee to the National centre of Excellence to reduce Violence Towrads Women and their Children