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Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. Her research examines family violence, legal responses to lethal violence, the law of homicide and the impact of homicide and sentencing law reform across Australian and international jurisdictions. This research has been undertaken with a key focus on gender and justice. Kate has published on the operation and impact of homicide law in leading criminology and law journals, and has presented the findings of her research at national and international conferences. She has also advised on homicide law reform reviews in several Australian jurisdictions. In 2015 Dr Fitz-Gibbon was awarded the prestigious Peter Mitchell Churchill Fellowship to examine innovative and best practice legal responses to the prevention of intimate homicide in UK, United States and Canada.