Selected publications

• Rayment-McHugh, S., McKillop, N., Higgins, D., & Russell, D. (2024). Context matters: Conceptualising and operationalising the contextual prevention of child sexual abuse. Child Abuse Review, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/car.2859
• Ogilvie, J., Cale, J., McKillop, N., Allard, T, & Smallbone, S. (2023). Assessing the Effectiveness of a Specialized, Field-Based Treatment Program for Youth Who have Committed Sexual Offenses in an Australian Jurisdiction. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X231219216
• Labhardt, D., Brown, S., Holdsworth, E., McKillop, N., Howat, D., Jones, C, & (2023) UK and Australian University Students’ Perceptions of the Nature of Sexual Assault and Intervening Behavior. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08862605231212171
• Lee, M., Moir, E., & McKillop, N. (2023). Public Views of Sexual Assault, and its Prevention, in Residential Aged Care Facilities. Journal of Criminology, 51 (7), https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26338076231207406
• Rundle-Thiele, S., Willmott, T., McKillop, N., Ruiz, P, & Kitunen, A. (2023). Young Voices United: Co-designing a place-based youth sexual and violence abuse prevention approach for one Australian community. Safer Communities: A Journal on Crime, Crime Prevention and Community Safety, https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-09-2022-0039
• Allen, A, Katsikitis, M., Millear, P., & McKillop, N. (2023). Implications of Sexual Fantasy Characteristics and Memory Intensity for Harmful Sexual Behaviour. Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health,https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2308
• Prenzler, T., McKillop, N., Rayment-McHugh, S., & Christensen, L. (2023). Best Practice in Sexual Offender Rehabilitation and Reintegration Programs. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JCRPP-07-2023-0036/full/html
• McKillop, N. & Price, S. (2023). The Potential for Anti-Stigma Interventions to Change Public Attitudes Toward Minor-Attracted Persons: A Replication and Extension of Jara and Jeglic’s Study. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 32 (6): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10538712.2023.2204864 
• Price, S. Prenzler, T, McKillop, N., & Rayment-McHugh, S. (2023). Restorative Justice as Diversion for Adult Offenders in Queensland, 1990-2021. Queensland Review, 29(2),  https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/23950 
• Allen, A., McKillop, N., Millear, P., & Katsikitis, M. (2023). The Effects of Bilateral Stimulation on Sexual Fantasies with One-Week Follow-up. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36521200/ 
• Allen, A., Millear, P., McKillop, N & Katsikitis, M. (2023). Sexual Fantasies and Harmful Sexual Interests: Exploring Differences in Sexual Memory Intensity and Sexual Fantasy Characteristics. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X221086580

Research Grants

• Understanding Crime
• Professional Placement
• Crime Research Methods
• Youth Justice and Restorative Justice

Potential research projects for HDR and Honours students

• Youth and adult sexual offending

• Offender rehabilitation and re-entry
• Program evaluation
• Prevention of sexual violence and abuse

Professional memberships and affiliations

• 2002 - current: Registered Psychologist, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
• 2019 – current: Fellow with the Higher Education Academy (UK), 2019
• 2016 - current: Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology

• 2016- 2019: Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
• 2015- 2019: Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Advances in Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University

Board appointments

• Current: Member, Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council, Research Consultative Forum
• Current: Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Sexual Aggression: An international, interdisciplinary forum for research, theory and practice
• 2015-2019: Associate Editor, Journal of Sexual Aggression: An international, interdisciplinary forum for research, theory and practice
• 2015 - present: Research Advisory Panel, Bravehearts

Awards

• Commissioner’s Award for Excellence in Corrections (Collaboration Category), Queensland Corrective Services, awarded to Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit for the Strong & Solid Spirit, 2023
• David Biles Correctional Research Award, for an outstanding research report in the field of correctional administration, policy or reform (Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), 2020
• Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching,  for outstanding and innovative teaching in Australian and New Zealand Criminology (Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), 2020
• Fellow, Advance HE (higher Education Academy), UK,2019-current
• Vice-Chancellor and President's Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, University of the Sunshine Coast, 2019
• Advancing the Blended Learning Environment Teaching Award, University of the Sunshine Coast, 2017
• Academic Lead, Australian Awards Fellowship Scheme, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trading and Minister for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (Indonesia), University of the Sunshine Coast, (2016)

• University Medal, Griffith University, 2002   

Professional Social Media

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