Staff profile

Dr Anastasia Powell

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

MB 470, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD (Melbourne).

Membership of professional associations

The Australian Sociological Association (TASA). Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC).

Area of study

Sociology
Gender
Sexuality and Diversity Studies

Brief profile

Dr Anastasia Powell teaches subjects addressing deviance, crime policy, gender and qualitative research methods.  She has recently written a book Sex, Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules (Cambridge University Press) which discusses young people’s experiences of pressured and unwanted sex and the implications of these for sexual violence prevention.  Anastasia has published in the related fields of sexual and domestic violence, including research concerned with young people’s negotiation of sexual consent as well as law and policy addressing domestic violence in the Australian context.  She has also undertaken work, including commissioned research, for a number of government departments and other agencies including; the Victorian Department of Justice, Office of Women’s Policy and the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth).

Research interests

Gender, Culture, Sexuality

- Violence against women

- Youth, gender and sexuality

Social Policy

- Women’s policy

Social Studies in Science and Technology

- Technology-facilitated sexual violence and harassment

Teaching units

SOC2/3DCS - Deviance, Criminality & Social Control. SOC2/3GES - Gender and Sexuality: contemporary debates. SOC2/3STD - Social Theories of Deviance.

Recent publications

Powell, A 2010, Sex, Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules,.Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521144292  

 

Powell, A 2010, ‘Configuring Consent: Emerging Technologies, Unauthorised Images and Sexual Assault’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 43(1).

 

Murray, S & Powell, A 2009, ‘"What’s the Problem?" Australian public policy constructions of domestic and family violence’, Violence Against Women, 15(5): 532-552.

 

Powell, A 2009, Good Practice and Future Directions for the Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women through Workplace Settings. Background Document prepared for the Office of Women’s Policy, Department of Planning and Community Development, State Government of Victoria, Melbourne.

 

Miller, P, White, R and Powell, A 2009, Alcohol and Interpersonal Violence: A review of the evidence. Report prepared for the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), Melbourne.

 

Murray, S & Powell, A 2008, 'Sexual Assault and Adults with a Disability: Enabling Recognition, Disclosure and a Just Response', Issues Paper 9, Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault. Available online: http://www.aifs.gov.au/acssa/pubs/issue/acssa_issues9.pdf

 

Murray, S & Powell, A 2008, ‘Working it out: domestic violence issues and the workplace’, Issues Paper 16, Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse. Available online: http://www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au/PDF%20files/Issues%20Paper_16.pdf  

 

Powell, A & Murray, S 2008, ‘Children and Domestic Violence: Constructing a Policy Problem in Australia and New Zealand’, Social & Legal Studies, 17(4).

 

Powell, A 2008, ‘Amor Fati? Gender habitus and young people’s negotiation of (hetero)sexual consent’, Australian Journal of Sociology, 44(2):167-184. Abstract online: http://jos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/44/2/167

 

Powell, A 2007, ‘Sexual pressure and young people’s negotiation of consent’, Aware, Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault, Newsletter, No. 14:8-16. Available online: http://www.aifs.gov.au/acssa/pubs/newsletter/n14pdf/n14_4.pdf  

Research projects

 

Australian domestic violence public policy: history, discourse and impact 1985-2005’ (ARC funded project, Chief investigator: Dr Suellen Murray). Abstract online: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0kja0h9qzdimz   ‘Preventing Violence Before it Occurs: A framework and background paper to guide the primary prevention of violence against women in Victoria’, 2007, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth). Available online: http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/assets/contentFiles/framework%20web.pdf  

‘Family violence IS a workplace issue: models of family violence prevention through the workplace’, 2002, Department of Justice, Government of Victoria.