Rachael Burgin

2026-03-30 12:03:21

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Swinburne University of Technology

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Dr Rachael Burgin is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Swinburne Law School in Melbourne. Australia. She was awarded her PhD in Criminology from Monash University in 2019. Her research explores the ways that affirmative consent has been adopted into law and translated into legal practice in rape trials across Australia. She's passionate about reforming rape law to better protect victim-survivors from re-traumatisation within criminal justice mechanisms, and to improve the preventative and educative functions of the law.

Experience

2020–present Lecturer, Swinburne Law School
2019–2019 Senior Research Associate, Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS)
2017–2018 Research Associate, Monash University

Education

2019 Monash University, Doctor of Philosophy

Publications

2019 Women's Behavior as Implied Consent: Male "Reasonableness" in Australian Rape Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice
2019 Persistent Narratives of Force and Resistance: Affirmative Consent as Law Reform, British Journal of Criminology

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