Dr Shawna Marks is a researcher, writer and thinker focused on systems change, masculinities and domestic, family and sexual violence.

  • On mentoring

    Deciding to leave academia has conincided with feeling very lost. This is perfectly understandable. My decision was prompted by a global pandemic, a tiny existential crisis, and the devastation of higher education institutions (thanks to the Federal government). Lost seems like the appropriate feeling in the face of crisis. We might also add disheartened, terrified,…

  • On resistance

    Hello world! It’s been a while. I starting using this website as an academic portfolio of sorts while doing a PhD. It was a place to share the work that I was doing with the community that I was doing it for. Too much of the academic work that is produced is never shared with…

Dr Shawna Marks

Research, writing and thinking on the changes we need

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