Chris currently teaches in the following areas:

• ATS1362 – Interpersonal practice and counselling skills
• ATS2822 – Advanced counselling and case management
• APG4761 – Program planning and evaluation in the human services
• APG4571 – Human services management: Structure and context
• APG5571 – Human services management: Structure and context

• Laming, C.J., Crinall, K.M., 2012, Walking together for safer communities with local action supported by family violence policy reforms, in Reconciliation in Regional Australia:Case Studies from Gippsland, eds Andrew Gunstone, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 89-107.
• Crinall, K.M., Laming, C.J., 2012, Raising Voices: Supportive Communication in Disability Accomodation Services, Monash University, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 1-56.
• Laming, C., Crinall, K., Hurley, J., Patten, S., Goodall, D., Yarram, D., Hamer, K., McDonald, P., 2011, The Gippsland CommUNITY Walk against Family Violence, Monash University, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 1-44.
• Laming, C. (2009) ‘Strengthening Governance to Stop Men’s Violence Against Women’   in  Sharif As-Saber, Amita Singh, Raza Ahmed, and Jennifer Jalal (eds) Strenghtening Governance in the Asia-Pacific:Myths, Realities and Paradoxes.  Delhi: Macmillan Publishers India
• 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.

Research interests

• Gender Based Violence and men’s responsibility
• Men’s violence against women and children
• Men’s behaviour change programs
• Police and community integrated responses to family violence
• Group work and applications of Personal Construct Theory
• Responses to men’s violence in developing countries
• Supporting the networklearning.org website for NGOs in developing countries
• Encouraging reflection in the welfare sector, about issues and concerns arising from practice situations, using the Practice Reflexions Journal.
• Developing practice based research and evaluation methodologies

Current research projects

• Chief Investigator (CI) on an ARC Linkage project (2007-12) 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).
• Principal Investigator on the Badilika (change) Research Project with incarcerated sex offenders in Kenya. Currently awaiting the result of an AusAid Development Research Awards Scheme (ADRAS) application for funding.

Postgraduate supervision

Chris 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.

Chris is a social worker who has worked oversees in community development projects, as well as developing a men’s behaviour change program in Gippsland, as part of an integrated response to family violence.

Chris has taught at the Gippsland campus of Monash since 2002.  His PhD, A Constructivist Approach to Challenging Men’s Violence Against Women, (http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2374) is published as Laming (2008) below.

Expert media commentary

• Men’s violence against women and children
• Family violence
• Working with men for behaviour change.