Professor Michael Flood is an internationally recognised researcher on violence against women, violence prevention, and men, masculinities, and gender. He has made significant contributions to scholarly and public understanding of men’s involvements in preventing violence against women and building gender equality and to scholarship and programming regarding violence and violence prevention. Professor Flood has contributed to national and state violence prevention frameworks, shaped national and international initiatives engaging men in violence prevention, given guidance on work with men and boys to international organisations, led the community-based promotion of healthy masculinities, and contributed to programming on dealing with backlash to gender equality initiatives.

Michael is the author of Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention (2019), the co- author of Young Men’s Online Lives (2025) and Masculinity and Violent Extremism (2022), and the lead editor of Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality (2015) and The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (2007).