Dr Danielle Tyson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Deakin University and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. She is a graduate of La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia (Bachelor of Arts with First-Class Honours in Legal Studies) and the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (PhD in Criminology). Prior to Deakin University, Dr Danielle Tyson taught Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University (2007 - 2016), the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, England (2002-2003), the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (2004 - 2006) and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia (2007).
Dr Danielle Tyson's research takes a feminist and socio-legal approach to examining issues of domestic and family violence with a particular focus on law reform, legal responses to men and women who kill their intimate partners, and filicide in the context of separation and divorce.