Dr Georgina Dimopoulos is one of Australia’s leading socio-legal researchers on children’s rights and participation in family law. She is an Associate Professor of Law and a Research Associate of the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University. Her research across family law, children's rights and family violence aims to strengthen children’s meaningful, safe participation in decision-making processes. Georgina has successfully led research projects that implement ethical, innovative co-research methodologies with children and young people as lived experience experts, in collaboration with industry partners. Georgina has been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2026, for research that will generate new knowledge about children’s participation in family court matters as family violence victim-survivors in their own right.