Matt Tyler has completed internationally significant research and groundbreaking program delivery related to preventing men’s violence, addressing child sexual abuse and improving outcomes for children and young people. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University and member of Childlight’s East Asia & Pacific Hub Board at the UNSW. He is currently working across a range of projects related to healing and recovery among children and young people, perpetration of violence and collective advocacy efforts engaging the federal government.
He has traversed diverse worlds – improving child protection in the United States with Harvard’s Government Performance Lab, engaging with young Indigenous men in the Kimberley, and driving change at a grassroots level as a Mayor in Melbourne’s West. Most recently, during seven years as on Jesuit Social Services Executive team, he was responsible for leading research on the Adolescent Man Box as well as Australia’s first child sexual abuse perpetration prevalence study. This research informed a range of practice efforts including establishing Australia’s first helpline – Stop it Now! – working with people at risk of sexually abusing a child as well as a range of programs with adolescents at-risk of harming others many of whom had been victims of violence themselves.