Rotary Hawthorn Weekly Meeting at Kooyong

Jacqueline is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her greatest passion is improving children’s health and well-being. She completed a Bachelor of Biomedicine at the University of Melbourne in 2016, majoring in Human Structure and Function. Using this knowledge, she commenced an Honours year researching child abuse in 2017. Jacqueline published this research and decided to pursue her findings through a PhD.

She is currently completing her research while working concurrently as a research assistant in the area of domestic violence.

Currently, doctors and nurses that are mandated to report child abuse lack support, information and confidence in undertaking the decision to report child abuse. Jacqueline's project aims to support doctors and nurses in responding to child abuse by co-designing a tool to help them decide whether and how to report child abuse.