Dr Chris Laming
Lecturer in Social and Community Welfare
Chris Laming has taught at the Gippsland campus since 2002. He recently completed his PhD A Constructivist Approach to Challenging Men's Violence Against Women through the University of Melbourne Department of Social Work.
Chris currently teaches in the following areas:
- Foundations of interpersonal practice
- Teams, groups and community networks
- Communication and counselling
Chris's research interests include:
- Men's violence against women and children
- Men's behaviour change programs
- Police and community integrated responses to family violence
- Group work and the application of Personal Construct Theory
- Responses to men's violence in developing countries, particularly using the network.org website.
- Encouraging reflection in the Welfare Field about issues and concerns arising from practice situations, using the Practice Reflexions website.
Research Interests / Publications
His current research projects include:
- Chris is a Chief Investigator (CI) on an ARC Linkage Grant awarded in May 2007 with the University of Melbourne, Victoria Police, Department of Human Services, Department of Victorian Communities and the Department of Justice, titled ‘Family Violence Reform: Using knowledge to Develop and Integrate Policy and Practice'. This project is now more widely known as SAFER (Safety and Accountability in Families: Evidence and Research).
- He is also currently engaged as a CI in the ‘Raising Voices' project, as part of the research partnership between the Department of Human Services, Gippsland and Monash University, Gippsland.
- Chris was also a CI in a successful research grant with the Office of the Senior Practitioner, to investigate restrictive practices applied to people with an intellectual disability.
- Another current research project that Chris is CI in, is the Realistic Evaluation of the CommUnity Walk Against Family Violence. A collaborative community education initiative between Indigenous and mainstream services to challenge men's violence against women and children.
Chris regularly undertakes consultancy work for the Department of Human Services, Gippsland. He also currently co-supervises two students doing higher degrees by research. One in the area of men's violence against women and the other looking at suicide and resilience among Australian Indigenous men.
His publications include:
- Laming, C. (2009) ‘Knowledge sharing on Social and Community Welfare placements, using the MUSO discussion forum' pp 44-47 in B. Edmondson, P. Dearman, A. Whitley and A. Carr (eds.), Collected Wisdom: Off Campus Learning and Teaching Symposium. Churchill: OCLC.
- Laming, C. (2008) Challenging Men’s Violence Against Women: A Constructivist Approach.Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
- Laming, C. and Fontana, M. (2008) Family Safety: A Toolkit for Men. Churchill: OCLC.
- Crinall, K. and Laming, C. (2008) Evaluation of the Structured Approach to Students @Risk Pilot Project. Churchill: OCLC.
- Laming, C. and Davies, L. (2007) ‘The Aboriginal Men’s SHED (YAMS)’ in Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. Vol 10. No 4 pp. 15-30
- Laming, C. and Fontana, M. (2007) ‘Men’s Behaviour Change in a Regional and Rural Context’ in New Community Quarterly. Vol 5. No 4. pp. 36-39
- Laming, Chris (2006) ‘Shedding Violent Expressions of Anger Constructively' in Peter Cummins (ed). Working with Anger. Chichester : John Wiley and sons.
- Laming, Chris (2005) “'What if?' Learning from the past and looking to the future” in Charlotte Roseby (ed) Journeys in Fatherhood:an anthology. Richmond : No To Violence.
- Crinall, Karen and Laming, Chris. (2005) Evaluation of the Gippsland Family Violence Service Coordination Pilot Project. Churchill: GRIS. pp 1-82
- Laming, Chris. (2005) SHED Manual: For workers engaging in men's behaviour change to shed abusive beliefs and violence. Churchill: CeLTS. (ISBN:0 7326 2224 7) pp1-160
- Laming, Chris (2000a) ‘The SHED Project: A Rural Intervention Project to Prevent Men's Violence Against Women and Children.' In Weeks,W. and Quinn, M.(eds). Issues Facing Australian Families. (3rd Edition) Sydney : Longman. Pp 307-315.
- Laming, Chris. (2000b) ‘Developing Group Alternatives for Reconstructing Personal Behaviour's in Taylor , K., Marienau, C. and Fiddler, M. (eds),Developing Adult Learners: Strategies for Teachers and Trainers. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass. Pp 253-257
Contact Details
- Phone:
- +61 3 990 26324 or +61 3 512 26324
- Fax:
- +61 3 990 26400 or +61 3 512 26359
- Office:
- 1E121
- Email:
- Chris.Laming@arts.monash.edu.au
- Address:
- School of Humanities, Communications & Social Sciences
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Northways Road,
Churchill, Victoria 3842