The silencing of children in safeguarding children processes and investigations
Channel: School of Health and Social Work
Date: 17/10/2017

Professor Goddard is a world renowned authority in his field. Prof. Goddard has produced many publications and carried out many projects in the area of safeguarding children, and has also been a long-standing and effective campaigner in the areas of children’s rights and child abuse.
 
He is frequently in demand to deliver conference papers, and to provide expert opinion on current issues to the media and Australian governments departments and police forces from within in his areas of expertise. 
 
Up until March 2016, Professor Goddard was Professor and then Adjunct Professor at Monash University in Australia, as Director of its Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia (CAPRA), Monash Injury Research Institute. 
 
Prof. God was nominated for the UN Human Rights Award (Journalism) in 2005.