Rate My Professor Susan Heward-Belle

Professor Heward-Belle's research specializes in coercive control tactics, perpetrator accountability, the impact of DFV on children, practitioner experiences during COVID-19, and policing strategies to disrupt DFV. Key publications include 'Until We Shift the Responsibility to Where it Needs to be, Survivors' Trauma Will Never End: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Domestic Violence Perpetrator Accountability' (Journal of Family Violence, 2025), 'Analysing the scientific literature on policing approaches to disrupt domestic violence' (Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2024), 'Practice in a Time of Uncertainty: Practitioner Reflections on Supporting Families During COVID-19 Lockdowns' (Affilia, 2022), 'Beyond co-occurrence: Addressing the intersections of domestic violence and child maltreatment' (Child & Family Social Work, 2021), and 'Exploiting the "good mother" as a tactic of coercive control' (Affilia, 2017). Her scholarship, cited over 335 times per ResearchGate, has earned her the 2019 ANZSWWER Social Work Educator Award (co-recipient). She teaches courses such as SCWK2012: Social Work with Children and Young People and contributes to funded projects on DFV interventions and child sexual exploitation disruption. Professor Heward-Belle engages in leadership through board roles, including Director at Barnardos Australia and DV West, and editorial contributions.