Linda Starr is a general and psychiatric qualified nurse, lawyer and Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Her research interests have been in health law, criminal law, profiling and offender behaviour, forensic practice, forensic nursing, and elder abuse investigation. Linda has been nursing since 1971 and was admitted to the Supreme Court as a solicitor in 1996, completing a Masters in Law in 1998. Linda is currently enrolled in a PhD program, researching the links between reporting elder abuse and the successful investigation and prosecution of offenders by police. Linda is a member of a team of academics from Flinders University and Johns Hopkins University (USA), developing a co-badged online continuing education program on forensic health for medical officers, paramedics, nurses and midwives.