Jill Howieson

Jill Howieson is the Director of the UWA Mediation Clinic http://www.mediation.uwa.edu.au/ and the unit coordinator of Ethical Dispute Resolution and Mediation Practice and Skills at the University of Western Australia’s Law School. She is the Director of UWA’s Registered Mediator’s Accreditation Body (RMAB) and a former board member of the national Mediator Standards Board (MSB).

Jill holds degrees in English, Psychology and Law. She completed her PhD in Law at the University of Western Australia in 2008. She is a nationally accredited mediator and practices, researches and teaches in the dispute resolution, conflict resolution, mediation and coercive control areas. 

Through the UWA Mediation Clinic, Jill trains private practitioners, UWA executive and academic staff, government organisations and more in negotiation, facilitation, mediation, and family dispute resolution.  The Clinic currently runs an executive education suite of courses including the National Mediation Accreditation course and the Certificate of Family Conflict Resolution (FDR) accredited by the Attorney General’s Department.

Jill’s research areas include mediation, conflict resolution, family violence, trust, mentalizing, procedural justice, and narcissistic and coercive control. Jill works from an inter-disciplinary socio-legal perspective and conducts empirical research.

2018-2025 INDUSTRY FUNDED TRAINING GRANTS

$1.5mil in Industry funded training and service grants in Executive Education, including training grants from the following organisations and industry bodies: Australian Federal Police, State Adminisrative Tribunal, Corruption and Crime Commission, Ebenezer Aboriginal Corporation, Department of Education, Department Mines, Industry and Regulation and Safety, WA Police, Department of Justice, Federal Court Judiciary, Anglicare WA, Aboriginal Mediation Service and the Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators (AIFLAM).

2020 UWA-ANGLICARE (WA) RESEARCH PROJECT - Mentalization Skills Evaluation and Implementation Project

2017 PUBLIC PURPOSES FUND RESEARCH GRANT

Ethical Dispute Resolution
Mediation: Practice and Skills

AMDRAS National Mediation Accreditation Course

Family Dispute Resolution

Mediation
Dispute Resolution
Trust
Procedural justice
Coercive Control