Georgina Patel

Georgina Patel (Woods-Child) is a lawyer and Research Associate at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), collaborating across the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences. She is the recipient of a New Zealand Law Foundation Grant for this research. Georgina draws on experience practising in family law and criminal law (Crown Prosecutions). In 2016, while in legal practice, she completed an LLM (Hons) at the University of Auckland, with a dissertation exploring the impact of indirect trauma exposure on criminal lawyers. Based across Melbourne, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand, Georgina is an independent researcher and consultant with a focus on psychosocial risk in legal workplaces.