Dr Anastasia Powell

• Lecturer

BA (Hons), Melb. PhD (Criminology), Melb.
Phone: 8344 6587
Email: ajpowell@unimelb.edu.au
Office: Room 514 John Medley Building, Parkville Campus

Background

Anastasia Powell completed her doctoral studies in Criminology at The University of Melbourne in 2007. Her thesis, ‘Generation Y: Re-Writing the Rules on Sex, Love and Consent’ explored young people’s love/sex relationships and the prevention of pressured and unwanted sex.  Anastasia has been nominated for the Vice-Chancellors award for excellence in a PhD thesis. 

Subjects taught

• Law in Society
• Criminology and Public Policy
• Law, Justice and Social Change

Research

Anastasia’s research interests include:

• Violence against women
• Primary prevention of sexual violence
• Gender, sexuality and the law
• Qualitative methodologies

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Murray, S. & Powell, A. (forthcoming). ‘‘What’s the Problem?’ Australian public policy constructions of domestic and family violence’ in Violence Against Women.

Powell, A. (forthcoming, 2008). ‘Amor Fati? Gender habitus and young people’s negotiation of (hetero)sexual consent’ in Australian Journal of Sociology, 44(2).

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

Powell, A. (2007). ‘Sexual pressure and young people’s negotiation of consent’, in Aware, Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault, Newsletter, No. 14:8-16.

Murray, S. & Powell, A. (2007). ‘Children, domestic violence and public policy: Constructing and responding to the policy problem’ in Children Australia, 32(3):6-12. 

Powell, A. (2007). ‘Youth ‘at risk’? Young people, sexual health and consent’ in Youth Studies Australia, 26(4):28-35.

Murray, S. & Powell, A. (2007). ‘Family violence prevention using workplaces as sites of intervention’ in Research & Practice in Human Resource Management, 15(2): 62-74

Conference Papers- published in refereed proceedings

Powell, A. (2005). ‘(re)Constructing Love: young people’s negotiations of dominant love/sex discourses’, in R. Julian, R. Rottier and R. White (eds.), TASA 2005 Conference Proceedings: Community, Place, Change. Published by The Australian Sociological Association.

Powell, A. (2005). ‘Mutual Combat or Gender-Based Violence? An examination of the conventional understandings of family violence as they relate to violence in youth dating relationships’, in S. Holland & A. Powell (Eds)., Crime Revisited Conference Proceedings 2005. Melbourne: Mens Rea – The University of Melbourne Criminology Postgraduate Association.

Conference Papers- other

Powell, A. & Imbesi, R. ‘Preventing Sexual Violence: Issues in Program Evaluation’ at the Australian Institute of Criminology Conference, February 2008, Melbourne, Victoria.

Powell, A. ‘Just Say No’? Educating to prevent pressured and unwanted sex’ at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Joint International Conference, December 2007, Auckland, New Zealand.

Powell, A. & Murray, S. ‘Children and Domestic Violence: Constructing a Policy Problem in Australia and New Zealand’, at TASA /SAANZ Joint International Conference, December 2007, Auckland, New Zealand.

Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) International Conference, November 2007, Melbourne, Victoria.

Powell, A. ‘Youth ‘At Risk’? Young people, sexual health and social inequality’ at the Australian Social Policy Conference, July 2007, Sydney, New South Wales.

Powell, A. ‘Amor Fati? Gender habitus in the everyday negotiation of sexual encounters’, at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, December 2006, Perth, Western Australia.

Murray, S. & Powell, A. ‘What’s the problem? Contemporary Australian public policy constructions of domestic violence’ at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, December 2006, Perth, Western Australia.

Murray, S. & Powell, A. ‘“For the sake of the children: Constructing children’s experiences of domestic violence as a policy’, at The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, September 2006.

Powell, A. ‘Re-writing the Rules? Young people’s negotiations of sexual relationships’, at the 19th Annual Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Conference, February 2006, Hobart, Tasmania.

Powell, A. ‘(re)Constructing Love: young people’s negotiations of dominant love/sex discourses’, at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference,
December 2005, Hobart, Tasmania, published in refereed conference proceedings.

Powell, A. ‘Perspectives, Policy and Practice: A framework for violence against women policy analysis’, at the 18th Annual Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Conference, February 2005, Wellington (New Zealand).

Other – including commissioned reports and edited collections
Murray, S, Rogers, P., Goodrick, D., Stevens, K. & Powell, A. (2006). Evaluation framework for the Family Violence Reform Initiative. Melbourne: Department for Victorian Communities.

Holland, S. & Powell, A. (Eds). Crime Revisited Conference Proceedings 2005. Melbourne: Mens Rea – The University of Melbourne Criminology Postgraduate Association.