Elli Darwinkel
Manager Investigation and Risk Assessment Specialist

Dr Elli Darwinkel has a background in Psychology, including a PhD in investigative interviewing of sexual offences. Elli has over 10 years’ experience working in the tertiary education sector. She previously worked in academic and research roles in Psychology, most notably completing research for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. She also has 6 years’ experience in campus threat assessment and management, and has managed the Safer Community programs at three Victorian universities, currently at Monash University. Elli has been the Membership Director of the Asia Pacific Association of Threat Assessment Professionals for the past two years, and is currently collaborating on research examining the prevention and response to reports of sexual violence across the tertiary education sector.