July 24, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) is an urgent, national issue, with far-reaching consequences. However, there is a distinct lack of information on the economic toll this crime takes on society – and without this insight, efforts to enact systemic change can be limited.
Our July Monthly Brown Bag will explore the outcomes from a first-of-its-kind Australian study into the economic and financial costs and impacts of OCSEA, conducted through a partnership between the University of Queensland (UQ) and ICMEC Australia. Presented by Dr Jonah Rimer, lead researcher from UQ, the session will focus on the study’s recently completed initial phase, which established the existing knowledge base, and conceptualised the meaning of OCSEA costs.
Join us to hear a summary of the identified costs, the sectors likely to be involved, and participate in a discussion about the next steps of the study. This is an opportunity to provide input on cross-sector efforts to progress the research agenda and identify how industry can translate the findings into meaningful, tangible action.
To read the full report, visit our research page.
Your speaker
Dr Jonah Rimer is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Queensland and Convenor of Cyber Criminology for the university’s postgraduate Cyber Security programs. He holds a Doctorate in Anthropology and a Master’s in Medical Anthropology from Oxford University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. Jonah’s research areas are online sexual offending, child abuse, human factors in cybercrime, social science of the internet, childhood and youth studies, and the justice system. He has been researching online child sexual exploitation and abuse since 2007 while in academia and the non-profit sector. For a list of publications, see Jonah’s UQ profile.
Event details
24 July 2025
Thursday
12:30pm – 1:30pm
AEST / Sydney
12:00pm - 1:00pm ACST / Adelaide time
10:30am - 11:30am AWST / Perth time
Online event
via Microsoft teams
Registration
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