Dr Sophie Hindes is a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS). Sophie is a criminologist specialising in LGBTQ+ communities and strengths-based approaches to understanding and addressing sexual and gender-based violence. They have led research projects exploring LGBTQ+ sexual violence, bi+ people’s positive experiences of negotiating sexual consent, media constructions of consent, gender sexuality during the #MeToo movement, sex and dating advice during the COVID-19 pandemic. They were also a co-researcher on a national study on tech-facilitated violence. 

Sophie draws on queer and feminist frameworks from criminology, gender and sexuality studies, and sociology to develop new understandings of how LGBTQ+ communities experience and resist forms of sexual and gender-based violence. Sophie is strongly focused on partnering with government and community organisations to enhance service provision for LGBTQ+ communities and victim-survivors of gender-based violence. 

Additionally, Sophie has held academic positions as a Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University and as a Teaching Associate at the University of Melbourne, where they developed and delivered criminology undergraduate and post-graduate courses. 

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